“My overall assessment: Penpot is a viable candidate for a security-conscious organization.”
“Penpot can be self-hosted, meaning you run the application on infrastructure you control instead of relying on Penpot's hosted cloud service.”
“Where data is stored: Design files, assets, project information and application data reside in your infrastructure.”
“Who can access it: You control network access, user provisioning, authentication and authorization.”
“How data is protected: You choose encryption, backups, retention policies, monitoring and infrastructure security.”
“Penpot officially documents Docker Compose, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Rancher deployment options.”
“Penpot supports several authentication mechanisms:”
“Penpot also documents air-gapped deployment options.”
“Professional — Free”
“Unlimited users, teams and files”
“Open-source platform”
“One important distinction: self-hosting gives you infrastructure control, but it does not automatically make the deployment secure.”
“Penpot documents anonymous telemetry for self-hosted instances.”
“This is an important consideration because self-hosting does not mean every enterprise security feature is automatically included.”
“Also, SOC 2 or HIPAA compatibility does not mean that your deployment automatically inherits a certification.”