: Begin Scanning a Slack for Pro and Business App
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Begin Scanning a Slack for Pro and Business App

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Begin Scanning a Slack for Pro and Business App

Authorize
Data Security
to connect to Slack for Pro and Business to scan all content shared within the app.
To connect Slack Pro and Business to
Data Security
and begin scanning assets, you need to:
If you have Slack Enterprise Grid plan, you must onboard using the Slack Enterprise Grid app instead.
  • Ensure that you have a Slack administrator account.
  • Grant
    Data Security
    access to Slack.
  • Add the Slack Pro and Business app to
    Data Security
    , providing
    Data Security
    information about your Slack account.
Support for automated remediation capabilities varies by SaaS application.

Add Slack Pro and Business App

In order for
Data Security
to scan assets, you must consent to specific permissions during adding the Slack Pro and Business app.
  1. (
    Recommended
    ) Add your Slack Pro or Slack Business+ domain as an internal domain.
  2. Sign out of all Slack workspaces.
    Doing so ensures that you sign in under the correct account and workspace.
  3. To add the Slack app, go to
    Data Security
    Applications
    Add Application
    Slack Pro and Business
    .
    1. Select
      Slack Pro and Business
      .
    2. Select
      Connect to Slack Pro and Business Account
      .
    3. Enter your team’s Slack domain or workspace (top-level organization), then
      Continue
      .
    4. Sign in
      with an administrator account.
    5. Review and
      Allow
      the requested permissions.
      Data Security
      requires these permissions to scan your assets on Slack Pro and Slack Business.
      After authentication,
      Data Security
      adds the new Slack app to the list of Cloud Apps as Slack n, where n is the number of Slack app instances that you have connected to
      Data Security
      . You’ll specify a descriptive name soon.
  4. (
    Optional
    ) Give a descriptive name to this app instance.
    1. Select the Slack n link on the Cloud Apps list.
    2. Enter a descriptive
      Name
      to differentiate this instance of Slack from other instances.
    3. Click
      Done
      to save your changes.
  5. To start scanning the new Slack app for incidents, go to
    Data Security
    Applications
    Slack Pro and Business
    Enable Scanning
    .
  6. During the discovery phase, as
    Data Security
    scans files and matches them against enabled policy rules.
    Verify that your default policy rules are effective. If the results don’t capture all the risks or you see false positives, improve your results.

Identify Risks

When you add a new cloud app,
Data Security
automatically scans the cloud app against the default data patterns and displays the match occurrences. You can take action now to improve your scan results and identify risks.
  1. (
    Optional
    ) Modify match criteria for existing policy rules.
  2. (
    Optional
    ) Add new policy rules.
    Consider the business use of your app, then identify risks unique to your organization. As necessary, add new:
  3. (
    Optional
    ) Configure or edit a data pattern.
    You can Configure Data Patterns to identify specific strings of text, characters, words, or patterns to make it possible to find all instances of text that match a data pattern you specify.

Fix Slack Pro and Business App Onboarding Issues

The most common issues related to adding or accessing your Slack Enterprise Grid app are as follows:
Symptom
Explanation
Solution
When you attempt to log in to your Slack administrator account during the onboarding process, it returns an authorization error:
Something went wrong when authorizing Data Security for Slack
.
You have a Slack workspace open in your browser for a workspace other than the workspace associated with the administrator account that you’re using to onboard the Slack Pro and Business app or the administrator account isn’t an administrator.
Log out of all Slack workspaces and verify that you are an administrator for that Slack account that you’re using to onboard the Slack Pro and Business app.

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