Data Security for Slack Enterprise supports scanning Slack Canvas files. This expansion ensures that your organization's sensitive information remains secure, compliant, and visible across all critical collaborative surfaces within Slack.

Slack Canvas is a native, persistent surface built directly into Slack where teams can create, share, and organize rich, fully-formatted content. Unlike fleeting messages, a Canvas serves as a digital document or wiki-like page that lives alongside a channel or direct message, or can be a standalone item.

• Content: Canvases can contain a mix of text, checklists, tables, embedded files, links, and multimedia.
• Use Cases: They are typically used for project plans, meeting notes, onboarding guides, knowledge repositories, and critical resource aggregation.
• Collaboration: Multiple users can view, edit, and collaborate on a Canvas in real-time, making it a central hub for team knowledge.

Data Security now extends its robust file scanning capabilities to include all files contained within Slack Canvas in Slack Enterprise environments. All Data Security functionalities that were previously available for scanning other types of files (for example, direct file uploads) in Slack Enterprise are now available for Slack Canvas files. This includes:

• Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Real-time scanning for sensitive data types such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data, and proprietary secrets.
• Policy Enforcement: Automatically applying security policies, including flagging, alerting, and taking remediation actions (for example, isolating or quarantining the file) upon detection of policy violations within a Canvas file.
• Threat Detection: Scanning for malware and other advanced threats embedded within files linked or uploaded to a Canvas.
• Visibility and Reporting: Comprehensive audit trails, incident reports, and risk assessments that now include Canvas files, offering a single pane of glass for all Slack data security posture.