Secure collaboration for cybersecurity teams.

  • End-to-end encrypted messaging
  • On-premise or cloud hosted
  • Cross-signed device verification
  • Secure, closed and open federation
A Cybersecurity team collaborating, sharing live data, video calls and code snippets.

Zero-trust secure collaboration and messaging.

Element is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration platform that’s already trusted by the highest levels of government and multiple military forces. 

It is perfect for cyber teams, being secure for both internal use and confidential discussion across the cybersecurity community.
Deployed on-premise or in the cloud, it is an enterprise-grade platform that supports everything from Single Sign-On (SSO) and compliance to E2EE-enabled antivirus and data loss prevention (DLP).

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Built for cybersecurity teams.

Element is perfect for the confidential, always-on operations of cybersecurity teams.

It’s an end-to-end encrypted app that combines the power of a collaboration platform with the ease and fluidity of a messaging app; across the web, desktops and smartphones.

Data can be streamed into end-to-end encryption chat rooms, delivering secure real time information to teams whether they are in or out of the office.

A Cybersecurity team sharing code snippets on mobile.

The most secure collaboration platform.

Element is an incredibly secure collaboration platform, and based on an open standard for easy connectivity between people and organisations.

End-to-end encryption

Cross-signed device verification

On-premise or cloud deployment

Open standard for easy closed and open federation

Decentralised for data sovereignty and resilience

End-to-end encryption.

Element's end-to-end encryption is based on Olm, an implementation of the Double Ratchet protocol popularised by Signal, and extended by Megolm to support large decentralised chat rooms.

Enterprise-grade E2EE functionality.

Element supports search, content scanning, antivirus and data loss prevention (DLP) in an end-to-end environment.

Visible in-room audit bots can be used to capture an official record of discussion and decision-making for regulation and compliance.

Cross-signed device verification example, where two devices display unique emoji.

Cross-signed device verification.

Adding extra security, Element uses cross-signed device verification to help ensure the identity of conversation participants and their devices, with minimal manual effort.

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Forrester Wave™: Secure Communications, Q3 2024.

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“Organizations with requirements for interoperability, federation, and data sovereignty should consider Element.”

Heidi Shey
Principal Analyst, Forrester

On-premise or cloud deployment.

It’s your data, you can choose where it’s stored.

On-premise or private cloud deployment for organisations that want to self-host. We offer support and an admin app to ease production.

Fully managed hosted solution, preserving data sovereignty and end-to-end encryption.

Get out of Slack. Get out of Signal.

Cybersecurity teams need end-to-end encryption with enterprise-grade functionality.

Get out of Slack

  • Not E2EE
  • Centralised
  • Vendor lock-in
  • Limited external connections

Get out of Signal

  • Centralised
  • Walled garden
  • No integrations
  • Not enterprise ready

Be in your Element

  • Enterprise-grade end-to-end encryption
  • Decentralised for data sovereignty and resilience 
  • On-premise or cloud, with no vendor lock-in

A secure open standard for the cybersecurity community.

Element is based on the Matrix open standard, offering native interoperability with any other Matrix-based platform. Many CERTs and similar coordination communities are already on Matrix, so you can talk to your peers securely.

Be in your element.

Secure communication and collaboration.

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