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By Pavithra Sudhakar
If you run secure messaging at scale, you already know the problem: the information was shared, the thread exists, and nobody can find it when it counts. In high-stakes environments, scattered knowledge is a mission risk. In Rocket.Chat v8.0, we built Intelligent Search to close that gap. We stress-tested it against 1.2 million real, messy, conversational messages, the kind that actually move through operational environments, and published every result including the uncomfortable ones.
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By Pavithra Sudhakar
Your teams are operating in environments where leaving the approved platform is not an option. v8.3 makes sure they never have to. Federation is now production-ready, built and tested for cross-agency operations at scale. Screen sharing is now native to voice calls, keeping every conversation inside the secure perimeter. This is what mission-critical build standards look like in practice. When you build a secure environment, you account for every risk you can see.
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By Sara Ana Cemazar
For EU government organizations and critical infrastructure operators, end-to-end encryption is no longer an architectural choice — it is a regulatory obligation. NIS2, which came into force across EU member states in October 2024, explicitly requires essential and important entities to implement encryption as part of their cybersecurity risk management measures. GDPR Article 32 has required encryption of personal data since 2018.
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By Pavithra Sudhakar
Welcome to Rocket.Chat Labs: our way of showing what is cooking in the R&D kitchen. No polished demos on curated datasets. No slide decks dressed up as evidence. Just real engineering, real data, and the honest story of what we found. The first in a series where we open up our R&D process: what we built, how we tested it, and what we actually found.
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By Sara Ana Cemazar
Shadow IT in government is not a fringe risk — it is a systemic one. A NinjaOne survey of 400 public sector managers across the US, Europe, and Oceania found that 49% of public sector employees rely on unauthorized software to complete their work, with 52% actively bypassing security policies. Gartner estimates that shadow IT accounts for 30 to 40 percent of IT spending in large enterprises, with Everest Group putting the figure at 50 percent or more.
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By Sara Ana Cemazar
Secure messaging for European governments is no longer a niche IT concern. It is a core requirement for operational continuity, legal compliance, and national security. The question for senior decision-makers is not whether to act, but which architecture can meet the full stack of regulatory and threat requirements simultaneously.
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By Sara Ana Cemazar
Digital sovereignty, in its most operational definition, is the ability to guarantee that no external government, corporation, or court can compel access to your data without your knowledge and consent. For European governments and critical infrastructure operators, that guarantee is increasingly difficult to make when core communication tools operate under legal frameworks that sit outside EU jurisdiction.
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By Marina Hudek
We're proud to share an important milestone: Rocket.Chat has officially achieved SOC 2 Type II attestation, one of the most rigorous and widely recognized security validations in the industry. This achievement represents years of deliberate work to embed security, reliability, and compliance into everything we build. For our customers, it's independently verified proof that the platform you rely on meets the highest standards of trust and accountability.
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By Marina Hudek
A new report from eSam, Sweden's public sector digital collaboration initiative, addresses a challenge familiar to government IT teams across Europe: how do we enable collaboration across agency boundaries while maintaining control of our infrastructure and data? Published in January 2026, "Common Federation Protocol for Public Sector Chat" examines different approaches to this challenge.
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By Sara Ana Cemazar
Government agencies face a fundamental question when choosing communication tools: who ultimately controls your data? For public sector organizations handling sensitive citizen information, classified communications, or cross-agency coordination, the answer matters enormously.
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By Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat's Comms OS gives government and defense teams a secure communications platform they fully control - from infrastructure to access. See how teams use zero-trust, attribute-based access controls to manage sensitive channels, AI-driven summaries to capture key decisions from approved intel, and encrypted voice and video for real-time coordination when conditions change fast. Built for air-gapped and sovereign deployments. Federate securely across organizations with Matrix protocol.
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By Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat CEO Gabriel Engel and CPO Christopher Skelly walk through the 2026 product roadmap for Secure CommsOS, covering what's ahead for real-time communications, federation, and Zero Trust capabilities. This session covers: Rocket.Chat is a DoD-approved, open-source communications platform built for defense, intelligence community, and federal agency environments. Secure CommsOS unifies messaging, voice, video, and AI into a single platform with full data sovereignty and compliance controls.
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By Rocket.Chat
Before we get too far into 2026, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what brought us here: the commitment to show up, connect, and build together. This video highlights the moments and achievements that shaped our 2025 — and the collaboration that made them possible. As we continue building ahead, let’s keep dreaming, owning, trusting, and sharing in 2026. Interested in joining us in the future?
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By Rocket.Chat
Standard IT tools weren't built for high-security environments—or for connecting seamlessly with mission partners across complex networks. In this session, experts from Rocket.Chat and Pexip explore how Federal Systems Integrators (FSIs) and defense agencies are modernizing collaboration without compromising on security. What you’ll learn in this webinar: Standard IT tools often trap data in silos, slowing down critical decision-making. We discuss how to move from legacy systems to air-gapped, mission-ready solutions that ensure total data sovereignty.
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By Rocket.Chat
Featuring 2025 Open Source Demo Day attendees and all the community contributors plus returning mentors - plus RC production staff - together making it a great success.
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By Rocket.Chat
Governments remain one of the top targets for cyberattacks, with a significant surge throughout 2024. Yet, government teams often rely on commercial messaging apps that open doors to non-compliance, surveillance, and cyber risk. And communication delays and fragmentation can literally become life-and-death scenarios. Rocket.Chat’s Secure CommsOS eliminates these risks.
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By Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat started, nearly 10 years ago, as an open source alternative to Slack. Today, it has evolved into a fully-fledged collaboration platform, supporting the needs of mission critical organizations around the world. We’re deployed at scale by leading organizations in defense, intelligence and critical infrastructure - an environment where there’s no room for failures. When every second matters, you need a collaboration platform that’s up to the task.
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By Rocket.Chat
In Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, public sector collaboration isn’t just about staying connected, it’s about staying compliant. Rising cyber threats and geopolitical risks make relying on non-EU cloud solutions a serious risk. With GDPR, NIS2, and Sweden’s Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (SFS 2009:400), the stakes are high.
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By Rocket.Chat
As we step into 2025, we’re filled with gratitude as we reflect on the moments that made 2024 truly special for Rocket.Chat’s incredible team. Check them out in our recap video! From the milestones we celebrated to the challenges we conquered, each moment reflects the incredible dedication of our Rocketeers who bring our DOTS to life every day. Together, we’ve built something truly special, and we couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve achieved. A huge thank you to our amazing team for making everything possible.
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By Rocket.Chat
As the world advances into an era of cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming every industry — including defense. From intelligence analysis to autonomous weapons, AI-driven systems are reshaping how we fight, offering unparalleled strategic advantages. Featured Speakers.
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Rocket.Chat is the leading free and open source team communication platform. Communicate and collaborate with your team, share files, chat in real time or switch to video/audio conferencing. Improve productivity by discussing and sharing ideas, projects and files with real-time or asynchronous team chat.
Rocket.Chat is a fast-growing platform that is now installed on over 180k servers and counts over 10m users worldwide as well as having an active, passionate community of over 700 developer-contributors who help Rocket.Chat’s core team of developers to constantly improve the product. Rocket.Chat’s long-term vision is to replace email with a real-time federated communications platform and offer services to enable businesses to be built using Rocket.Chat.
Features:
- LiveChat: With LiveChat by Rocket.Chat you can add real-time chat widgets to any website or mobile app to get more value from your team chat and provide high quality customer service. Replace other systems and use one communication platform to save time and money. Create a user support helpdesk, answer customer queries and convert leads.
- Real-time translation: Rocket.Chat uses cutting edge machine learning for automatic real-time message translation between users. Our user interface has been translated to over 50 languages, more than any other team chat service.
- For all platforms: You can take Rocket.Chat anywhere with our web, desktop & mobile apps, LiveChat clients and SDK.
- Endless Customization: Customize your platform to tailor its exact look & feel by adding or removing features and selecting your own integrations, plugins & themes.
Open Source Team Communication. Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source.