In a remarkably short span, Slack has become one of the most popular cloud services used across businesses. Between its early focus on winning over developers who quickly became incredibly effective evangelists for Slack throughout their respective organizations, and its aggressive moves to integrate with other popular enterprise cloud services for a more connected experience, Slack provided a distinct model for other cloud services to follow. Indeed, the Netskope Cloud Report identifies Slack among its list of 20 most-used cloud services in the enterprise.
As with any enterprise cloud service, organizations using Slack need to be confident that they are protected from sensitive data loss and threats like malware and ransomware. On that note, I’m excited to share that today we officially released Netskope for Slack, a comprehensive solution that enables users to collaborate in Slack while giving IT and security teams the visibility, control, and peace of mind to safely and securely enable the collaboration service.
Netskope for Slack offers surgical visibility into usage of Slack and its integrated ecosystem apps, granular access controls, data loss prevention, and threat and malware protection. With Netskope, you have a complete risk dashboard on users, devices, and activities within Slack across public channels, messages, posts, snippets, and files.
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