With data loss prevention (DLP) for Slack Connect, you can reduce the risk of sharing confidential, malicious, or personally identifiable content with people from external organizations. DLP for Slack Connect scans messages and files sent by members of your organization in channels and direct messages (DMs) for content that violates custom rules that you create.
DLP Admins can create custom rules using regular expression (regex) format that will flag messages or files for administrative action. You can also choose to hide (or “tombstone”) messages or files until they can be reviewed.
DLP Admins can review rule violations and take action on flagged messages and files.
Tip: You can use DLP for Slack Connect in conjunction with third party solutions supported by the Discovery API.
Create DLP rules
From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Organization settings.
Click Security in the left-side column, then choose Data loss prevention.
Click Create Rule in the top-right corner.
Under Rule name, choose a name for your rule.
Under Regular expression, enter a string you’d like to track and select an Action to take when the rule is triggered.
Click Save.
Manage alerts
When a member of your organization sends a message that violates a DLP rule, you'll see an alert in the Slack DLP dashboard. From the dashboard, you can then archive the alert, delete the message, or restore the message (if it was hidden).
From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Organization settings.
Click Security in the left-side column, then choose Data loss prevention.
Under the Alerts tab, click on a flagged message.
Click Manage in the top-right corner and select an action.
Note: Slackbot will notify people if their flagged messages or files are deleted.
