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Slack
Manage accounts and secure access to Slack for collective collaboration
Overview
Slack is the single workspace that connects you with the people and tools you work with everyday, no matter where you are or what you do. With Slack you get real-time messaging, a searchable record of all your files and conversations, and dynamic integrations with handy bots and apps. Now everyone can finally be on the same page and get their work done. Slack: It's where work happens.
Okta integrates with Slack to create a space where your teams can share, archive, and search for key documents and conversations all in one place while being enhanced through the security of identity management. Your teams can better leverage their collective expertise and keep their work moving forward. Companies across industries like healthcare, aerospace and defense, financial services, and insurance are using Okta integrated with Slack to collaborate securely and efficiently, with the peace of mind that the right users have permissions to the right channels and conversations.
Functionality
Add this integration to enable authentication and provisioning capabilities.
Authentication (SSO)
- API
- Entitlement Management
- Event Hooks
- Inbound Federation
- Inline Hooks
- Outbound Federation
- Partial Universal Logout
- RADIUS
- SAML Security Assertion Markup Language is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP) that does not require credentials to be passed to the service provider.
- Universal Logout
- Workflow Templates
- Workflows Connectors
- SWA Secure Web Authentication is a Single Sign On (SSO) system developed by Okta to provide SSO for apps that don't support proprietary federated sign-on methods, SAML or OIDC.
- OIDC OpenID Connect is an extension to the OAuth standard that provides for exchanging Authentication data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP) and does not require credentials to be passed from the Identity Provider to the application.
- WS-Federation
Provisioning
- Create Creates or links a user in the application when assigning the app to a user in Okta.
- Update Okta updates a user's attributes in the app when the app is assigned. Future attribute changes made to the Okta user profile will automatically overwrite the corresponding attribute value in the app.
- Deactivate Deactivates a user's account in the app when it is unassigned in Okta or their Okta account is deactivated. Accounts can be reactivated if the app is reassigned to a user in Okta.
- Attribute Sourcing The application can be defined as the source of truth for a full user profile or as the source of truth for specific attributes on a user profile.
- Sync Password Push either the users Okta password or a randomly generated password to the app. This feature is not required for all federated applications as user authentication takes place in Okta, however some apps still require a password.
- Group Push Push existing Okta groups and their memberships to the application. Groups can then be managed in Okta and changes are reflected in the application.
- Group Linking Link Okta groups to existing groups in the application. Simplifies onboarding an app for Okta provisioning where the app already has groups configured.
- Schema Discovery Import the user attribute schema from the application and reflect it in the Okta app user profile. Allows Okta to use custom attributes you have configured in the application that were not included in the basic app schema.
- Attribute Writeback When the application is used as a profile master it is possible to define specific attributes to be sourced from another location and written back to the app. For example the user profile may come from Active Directory with phone number sourced from another app and written back to Active Directory.
Documentation
Here is a section all about documentation, integration, and implementation.
Workflows
Slack Connector actions
- Rename Channel
- Custom API Action
- Join Channel
- Read User
- Read Message History
- Send Direct Message
- Send File to User
- Send Ephemeral Message
- Invite User to Channel
- Respond to Command - Real Time
- Respond to Command - Delayed
- Send File to Channel
- Get Users in Channel
- Search Channels
- Send Message to Channel
- Archive Channel
- Remove User from Channel
- Create Channel
- Leave Channel
Connector
Templates
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Notify a User When Their Profile is Updated
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Intro to Lists and Helper Flows
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Suspicious Activity Reported
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Manage Access to Github Repo Based on Secure Code Warrior Assessment Status
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Tracking and Alerting for Possible Account Takeover Attempts in Okta
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Monitor unsuccessful phishing attempts
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Detect and respond to MFA Fatigue attacks
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Identify inactive third-party app users
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Send notifications for a breached password event
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Send a Slack Message with Blocks