Platform security
Streaming, recording, materials and access control all live inside MyOwnConference. Running a webinar does not mean bolting on third-party tools that put your data or your audience's privacy at risk. The technical and security work happens on our side.
How streaming works
Broadcasting from the browser, your audio and video can leave your computer two ways, and which one suits you depends on your network and your hardware.
The default is WebRTC. It delivers audio and video over the UDP protocol with low latency, which is what keeps a webinar feeling live rather than delayed. On an unstable connection, or on a device short of processing power, streams can still stutter or cut out briefly.
The second way is our downloadable plugin, built for exactly those conditions. Both of those paths are encrypted. This is not a choice between a secure option and an insecure one. What the plugin buys you is reliability. It runs over TCP on port 443 rather than UDP, which is why it gets through corporate firewalls and VPNs that block WebRTC outright, and why it holds a steadier picture on a slow link. Either way, the stream is encrypted on the way and reaches only the participants admitted to the room. See alternative broadcasting technology for how to switch a room over to it. What happens to a broadcast from a closed network on its own, without you lifting a finger, is covered by broadcasting from a corporate network.
A third route leaves the browser out of it altogether and pushes a stream from OBS Studio, which broadcasting into the webinar room from OBS Studio covers. The part that belongs here is that it hands each invited speaker a stream key of their own. That key is a credential rather than a link, because anyone holding it can broadcast into your room as that speaker. It does not belong in a chat message, a shared document or a screenshot.
Built-in security
How tightly a webinar is closed is your choice. By default a scheduled event has a public entry page and a general guest link, so anyone holding that link can register and come in. Switch on "Invitation link login only" on the "Entry" tab and both disappear, leaving personal invitation links as the only way in. Either way you set the window around the event, which keeps the room out of reach at arbitrary hours. Personalized access links covers the closed mode.
All outgoing streams are protected with TLS, which secures your content while it travels. The presentations, videos and other files you upload are encrypted too, with AES-128. Nothing of yours sits in the open on our side.
Forwarded links cannot grow the room. Everyone you invite by email gets a link tied to their own address, and that link carries one seat. Pass it on and only whoever opened it most recently is in the room, because a second entry disconnects the first. Sharing moves the seat rather than adding one.
Run the webinar on personalized invitation links and there is a second check on top. The platform spots that the person using a link is not the original recipient and asks for verification, emailing a one-time code to the address the invitation went to, and a stranger then needs that mailbox as well as the link.
Attendees install nothing
MyOwnConference runs in the browser. The webinar room opens in whatever browser your attendees already use, through the link you share with them, and there is no download step to explain to anyone.
Why we do not restream to social platforms
The short answer is that social platforms analyze everything.
Unlike some other services, we do not offer a way to push your whole webinar room straight to YouTube, Instagram or similar sites. That is a deliberate product decision. Those platforms are good at reach, but they carry real risks, including unauthorized access and losing control of your own content.
You can still stream out using a tool such as OBS Studio. Weigh that up carefully, because anything you send that way leaves the protected environment we provide.
Reaching a wider audience anyway
Some events genuinely need a bigger audience, and there is a cleaner way to get one. Create the YouTube Live stream yourself and share its link inside your webinar room. You decide who can watch, access control stays on our side, and the people in the room keep the platform's interaction features.
If you have a security question this article does not cover, open the online chat and we will answer it.
Protecting the account itself
Everything above guards the webinar. The account that runs it is a separate matter, and the control panel gives it a lock of its own.
Open "Profile" and pick the "2FA" tab. The switch there turns on two-factor authentication. A password stops being enough on its own, and a six-digit code from an authenticator app is asked for as well. Google Authenticator is the one we name, and any app that follows the same standard does the job.
Flipping the switch brings up a QR code with the same key written out in text underneath it, for when there is nothing to scan with. Point the authenticator app at the code or paste that key into it by hand, and the app starts producing a six-digit number that changes every half minute. Type the current one into the six boxes in the panel.
That last step is the one that counts. The label beside the switch reads "Enabled" from the moment you flip it, but the account is not protected until the six digits have been accepted. Leave the page before that and nothing is kept. You come back to "Disabled" and a fresh key waiting to be set up from scratch.
There are no backup codes to print, which makes the phone carrying the app the only key you hold. If you lose it, getting back in goes through us. Change the account password first, then write to [email protected] with something that proves the account is yours, and we switch the second factor off so you can set it up again on the new device.
All of this protects the account owner, meaning whoever signs in with an email address and a password. The people you add on the "Users" tab reach the platform through a link you hand them and never meet a sign-in form. There is no second factor to add for them.
Frequently asked questions
Can anyone who finds the link register for my webinar?
By default yes. A scheduled event has a public entry page and a general guest link, so anyone holding that link can register and come in. Switch on "Invitation link login only" on the "Entry" tab and both disappear, leaving personal invitation links as the only way in. Personalized access links covers that closed mode.
What happens if my OBS stream key gets out?
Anyone holding it can broadcast into your room as that speaker, because the key is a credential rather than a link. Each invited speaker gets a key of their own, so keep yours out of chat messages, shared documents and screenshots. The route itself is covered in broadcasting into the webinar room from OBS Studio.
Is the downloadable plugin less secure than broadcasting from the browser?
No, both of those paths are encrypted, so this is not a choice between a secure option and an insecure one. What the plugin buys you is reliability, since it runs over TCP on port 443 rather than UDP, which is why it gets through corporate firewalls and VPNs that block WebRTC outright. See alternative broadcasting technology for how to switch a room over to it.
Are my uploaded slides protected, or only the live stream?
Both are protected. All outgoing streams are covered by TLS, which secures your content while it travels, and the presentations, videos and other files you upload are encrypted with AES-128, so they do not sit in the open on our side.
I forwarded my invitation link to a colleague. Can we both watch?
No, that link is tied to your address and carries one seat, so only whoever opened it most recently is in the room and a second entry disconnects the first. Sharing moves the seat rather than adding one. If the event runs on personalized invitation links there is a second check on top, because the platform spots that the person is not the original recipient and emails a one-time code to the address the invitation went to.
