Paul Walsh
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

This use case is part of the reason we focus on Security for Team Collaboration and Messaging Systems. They’re not designed to protect users from malicious links — and legacy security companies haven’t yet realized that it’s a market opportunity for them. Ironically, some of the biggest security companies in the world use our security app to protect their own teams on Slack and HipChat.

As I’ve discussed on Twitter, you can install our app which will monitor all of your traffic across channels. We are updating the app to monitor DMs as this wasn’t permitted by Slack when we last updated the app.

You also get a great dashboard where you can see every link and every file shared — with insight on who shared, where and when. And you now get a full CRM — so you get every users’s email address as well as how engaging they are in channels.

We are working hard to productize our offering for the world of ICOs. In the coming weeks you will be able to add URLs to your own blacklist and have them immediately labeled — literally in real time.

It’s not possible to prevent users from posting messages with bad links — Slack won’t allow us to do this. But, sending an alert to a channel/DM as well as the Champion/admins within less than a third of a second, is the next best thing as people will be told when a link is malicious.

Please feel free to reach out to me with any ideas you have with regards to what we can add specifically for the community.

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    Paul Walsh

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    MetaCert CEO. Passionate about Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Crypto, Snowboarding & Red Wine. Part of the AOL team that launched AIM. Co-founded 2 W3C Standards.

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