Slack and Wiz have expanded their partnership and added two major enhancements to Wiz's Slack integration to deliver AI-powered security insights and guidance.
Slack and Wiz are introducing a bi-directional Slack app that empowers security teams to manage Wiz Issues and Threats directly within Slack. This integration is designed to enhance response times and accelerate remediation efforts without disrupting existing workflows.
In addition, Wiz is launching an AI-powered app for Slack that delivers security insights and guidance. The AI assistant intends to support teams in quickly accessing answers, streamlining decision-making, and improving overall security efficiency.
Wiz wrote in an announcement blog:
In most organisations, cloud, development, and SecOps teams rely on Slack as their primary communication platform, so we’re bringing the power of Wiz directly into the tools they already use by expanding our Slack integration(...) These updates make it easy for teams to stay on top of security risks by gaining security guidance, investigating issues and threats, and taking action—all without leaving Slack."
Users can now install the new bi-directional Slack app from the Slack Marketplace and explore the Wiz AI App extension to access AI-powered security insights.
More Specifics On The New Offerings' Feature Sets
Wiz's new bi-directional Slack app, available on the Slack Marketplace, enhances its existing integration by enabling security teams to take direct action on Wiz Issues and Threats within Slack. This aims to reduce context switching and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR), allowing security, cloud, and SecOps teams to investigate, assign, and resolve threats more efficiently.
The integration consolidates all detections of a single Wiz Threat into a dedicated Slack thread, simplifying investigations. Teams can update threat statuses—such as marking them as a "security test" or "planned action"—directly in Slack, with real-time syncing ensuring information stays consistent across platforms.
Additionally, teams can add context to security alerts by replying in Slack threads with investigation details, remediation updates, or flagged dependencies. Wiz automatically updates the Issue History or Threat Timeline, which it says creates a comprehensive audit trail for streamlined collaboration and faster threat resolution.
Wiz highlights several use cases where its bidirectional Slack integration helps organisations streamline security by keeping workflows within existing communication channels. For example, security Teams can manage Wiz Issues directly in Slack, sending critical alerts to relevant channels, assigning owners, and updating statuses—eliminating platform switching and improving response times.
