Organizations struggle to maintain compliance and prevent data leakage when sensitive information bypasses public audits and is shared via private channels and direct messages within collaboration platforms like Slack. The enhanced Slack private message scanning, supported by Data Security in SaaS Security, solves this challenge by providing crucial visibility into private channels and direct messages across the Slack Pro and Business application tiers. This feature allows you to conduct comprehensive scanning of all shared content, ensuring full policy enforcement and robust Data Loss Prevention across your entire Slack environment.

By extending security control into private messaging, you significantly reduce insider threat risk and streamline audit preparation. This granular scanning capability ensures consistent application of your data policies, providing the confidence that sensitive intellectual property, PII, and financial records remain secure regardless of where they are shared within the Slack ecosystem. For customers onboarded before December 7, 2024, activating this enhanced capability simply requires a one-time reauthentication of your app instance to gain the necessary expanded permissions. This enhancement ultimately strengthens your organization's overall compliance posture.