Beyond Public Apps: Why Security Teams Need On-Premise Messaging

Information is a key corporate asset requiring robust protection. Security teams often hunt external threats: breached servers, encrypted backups or compromised cloud accounts, while communication via instant messaging apps remains a high risk area. Public messengers carry text, screenshots, files and alerts, all of which can leak data.

To ensure integrity, AI-powered Video Analytics platforms require the same high standards of secure communication and alert systems. If those communications aren’t protected, attackers or careless insiders can turn valuable data into liability.

Why on‑premise messaging is growing

Internal corporate messaging platforms offer a solution to prevent confidential information leaks and close this specific threat vector. In recent years, on-premise solutions have emerged as a key trend in the evolution of corporate communications. Consequently, companies increasingly opt to host corporate messengers within their own infrastructure. Company-hosted messengers let users choose how data is stored, who can access it, and define the level of mandatory protection.

Secure integrated messengers facilitate fast and convenient communication and serve as a reliable information repository and company database, particularly where strict control is critical. On-premise deployments can be scaled from a few hundred users to tens of thousands inside a closed, auditable environment.

A corporate messager is more than just encrypted chat. Its key features include:

• Mandatory logging of all user actions, including message edits and deletions, so admins can gather evidence when needed.
• Fine-grained access control limits who can see which chats, files, and alerts.
• Content controls that block or quarantine risky file types and scan attachments with integrated antivirus.
• Automated DLP rules to detect and flag confidential content shared with unauthorized users.
• Signed updates and hardening: protect the platform itself from tampering or supply-chain attacks.
• Secure deployment of AI assistants is supported within a self-hosted messaging environment, preventing any transfers to external third-party servers.

Selecting a secure messenger requires a tailored approach based on the company’s specific security needs.

The role of corporate messengers in video analytics operations

An integrated secure messenger within an agency significantly enhances control and security. Unlike public apps, they allow for the monitoring of all user actions, including chat histories, even after messages have been deleted. When all user actions are logged and monitored, security teams can reconstruct timelines, gather evidence and respond faster to incidents.

Beyond configuring security policies and restricting data transfers, it’s essential to ensure compliance through automations that analyze files for confidential data and alert security personnel to any unauthorized transfers.

Such solutions are in high demand within security agencies and the defense industry, where data leaks can have catastrophic consequences. In these sectors, it’s vital to balance secure, controlled information sharing with the need for rapid real-time communication.

Architecture and deployment

The implementation of a secure messaging system begins by defining clear infrastructure requirements. In practice, this stage often takes longer than the actual platform installation. In an agency setting, the approval of access rights and network policies is often the most time-consuming process, while the technical deployment itself is relatively fast. Once the infrastructure has been verified, preparation of the environment for the future cluster begins. It’s at this stage that the reliability of the future system is determined.

Essential technical phases include:

• Verifying compute, storage, and network readiness.
• Configuring DNS, routing, certificates, system hardening, and backups.
• Setting up clustering and failover configurations to guarantee system resilience.

Sover as a designated messenger

Securing video analytics requires securing the conversations around it. A company-controlled messenger secures information flow, protects assets, streamlines response times and mitigates overall risk.

To ensure secure internal communication, IREX offers Sover, a self-hosted, highly scalable corporate messenger. Sover complements IREX’s Ethical Video Analytics by providing an enterprise-grade communication layer that secures sensitive data within a closed, private circuit through customizable end-to-end encryption, role-based access and centralized administration.

Its core technical features include device control to block screen sharing and downloads, audit trails, secure attachment storage, and robust retention and redaction policies. When users leave the company, their accounts are deactivated, and all related correspondence is archived.

Sover ensures operational privacy and sovereignty across all communication channels, including messaging, calls and video conferencing. The platform’s ability to integrate with partner accounts via controlled channels preserves necessary external collaboration without opening broad data paths outside the corporate perimeter.

Together, all these features create the technical and procedural safeguards that keep video analytics data internal, auditable, and fully aligned with privacy and compliance standards.