Slack

Follow up on security tasks in Slack.

Send security actions and reminders to employees through Sam, Elba’s assistant. A separate Data Protection connection can identify supported risks in public channels.

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Employee communications · Separate Data Protection connection

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Capabilities

What this integration covers.

Contact the employee involved.

Match employees to active Slack accounts by email, then send them a direct message.

Remind employees about open tasks.

Send reminders through Slack so employees know which security tasks need their attention.

Review public-channel exposure.

Add the separate Slack Data Protection connection to find and act on eligible public-channel risks.

Example workflow

Send an employee a security task.

How the integration supports a specific security task.

01
Match the employee
Elba matches an employee to their active Slack account.
02
Send the message
Sam sends the employee a security action or reminder in a direct message.
Open the task
The employee opens the linked issue to review it and take the available action.

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Before you connect

Coverage, permissions, and requirements.

Slack employee communications and Slack Data Protection are separate connections with different permission sets. Enabling one does not enable the other.

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Does the communication connection read Slack messages?

The employee-communications connection is designed to match members and deliver supported conversations. Message analysis belongs to the separate Slack Data Protection connection.

Can Slack Data Protection read private channels?

Its current permission set does not grant access to private-channel history. It analyzes supported messages in public channels available to the authorized connection.

What happens when an employee cannot be matched?

Supported conversations fall back to email. Check that the Slack member is active, is not a bot and uses the same email address as the employee record in elba.

Can elba remediate every Slack finding automatically?

No. A direct or Playbook action is available only when the separate Data Protection source and the specific message support it.

Coverage and requirements

Employee matching requires an active, non-bot Slack member with an email address that matches the employee record in elba.
Employees who cannot be matched to Slack fall back to email for supported conversations.
Slack Data Protection is a separate connection and its current permissions do not grant access to private-channel history.
Detection and remediation depend on the enabled source, available public channels, message type and live capability shown in elba.

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