Product · Safeguard for Slack

Findings, fixes, and gates — where the engineer already is.

The Slack app for security teams. PR alerts in the right channel, fix proposals threaded under the offending diff, slash commands for triage, approve-by-emoji workflows, and escalation that respects oncall. Every action is signed and audited.

Per channel
Routes by repo, team, or product
Slash commands
Triage from the message box
Emoji approvals
React to approve, defer, or escalate
Audit log
Every Slack action is signed
Capabilities

Triage without a context switch.

The engineer is already in Slack. The reviewer is already in Slack. The platform meets them in the channel where the work is being discussed.

PR alerts in the channel

Every PR that fails a policy gate, introduces a reachable CVE, or breaks a license rule posts an inline thread in the right team channel. The thread carries the diff, the rule, and the suggested fix — not a one-line alert with a dashboard link.

Slash commands for triage

/safeguard finding 1234, /safeguard scan owner/repo, /safeguard waive CVE-2025-XXXX — the common triage verbs are typeable from the message box, with rich confirmations rendered back in the channel.

Approve-by-emoji workflows

Configure approval gates so that a configured reviewer can sign off with a reaction emoji — a tick for approve, a clock for defer, a flag for escalate. Reactions are validated against role, then logged as a signed approval.

Escalation routing

If a critical finding isn't acknowledged inside the SLA window, the alert escalates up your configured oncall chain — DM, channel ping, then page. The chain is a config file, not a runbook engineers have to remember.

Search your tenant from Slack

Type @safeguard search log4j and the bot replies with every product that ships a vulnerable build, the reachability verdict, and the open work. The conversation thread becomes a shared triage surface.

Audit log per action

Every alert, every approval, every slash command is logged with the Slack user, the workspace, the channel, and the resulting platform action. Slack is a frontend, not a back door.

How it works

Five minutes to your first alert.

01

Install from the Slack app directory

Workspace admin grants the OAuth scopes. The bot user joins the channels you nominate; nothing else.

02

Map channels to products

Tell the bot which channel owns which product or repo. Alerts route to the right room — not a noisy firehose.

03

Configure approval roles

Pick which Slack users (or user groups) can sign off on which gate types. Roles are pulled from your existing Slack group memberships, with overrides for sensitive gates.

04

Wire up oncall

Connect your PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Incident.io rotation so escalation chains follow the people who are actually awake.

05

Engineers triage in-channel

Alerts land in the right room, the right person approves with a reaction, and the platform's state changes accordingly. No new dashboard for the team to learn.

Guardrails

Slack is a frontend, not a backdoor.

Slack user identity is mapped to a Safeguard role via SSO. The bot enforces the same RBAC as the web app.
Approval reactions are validated against the configured reviewer set. A stranger's tick reaction does not approve anything.
Slack DMs are off-record by default. Sensitive actions require explicit channel context or web-app confirmation.
Every Slack-triggered action is logged with the workspace, user, channel, message, and resulting state change.

Install in the channel that already exists.

One OAuth flow, one channel mapping, and the next merge with a reachable CVE shows up in #platform-security with the fix attached.