Integrations / Communication
Screenata + SlackHow do you use Slack for SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance?
Quick answer
Slack is the surface the compliance program runs on, not a scanned system. It is where briefings land, where evidence gets requested, and where attestations get chased. A policy existing is not the control. The control is the enforced setting plus the record that it operated for every person across the audit period, which is why the acknowledgment log matters as much as the policy document. Screenata uses Slack to deliver briefings, request evidence, and chase policy attestations, and records that activity as evidence.
Screenata runs the day-to-day compliance program inside Slack. Vera posts the 6:30 AM readiness briefing, requests evidence by DM and auto-classifies whatever you drop in, chases policy acknowledgments, and escalates on a ladder when tasks go unanswered. Slack is a delivery and collection surface for Screenata, not a scanned system, so it carries no native security checks of its own.
Read-only · signed evidence
What it proves
Slack evidence, mapped to controls.
The 6:30 AM readiness briefing and follow-up escalations delivered in Slack, so compliance status reaches the people who act on it.
A recorded trail of what was reported and when, evidencing that compliance information flows to the team.
Evidence requested by DM, with files dropped in the conversation auto-classified and filed to the control they support.
Long-tail evidence captured where it appears instead of lost in a channel scrollback, signed like any other artifact.
Policy acknowledgment requests sent and chased in Slack, with each acknowledgment recorded per person.
The acknowledgment log auditors sample: who was asked, who acknowledged, and when.
Control references are the requirements each evidence area supports, via the shared control catalog. Your auditor decides sufficiency; the artifacts are theirs to verify.
How it connects
Read-only, revocable, yours.
Read-only by construction
OAuth scopes and IAM roles are scoped to read. Vera never gets write access to your systems.
Signed findings
SHA-256 per artifact, RSA/ECDSA signatures, RFC 3161 timestamps. Verifiable without a Screenata account.
Mapped to controls
Each finding lands on the shared control catalog, so one scan satisfies SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 at once.
BAA & attestation status
Slack offers a BAA on qualifying paid plans for customers handling PHI, and publishes its own compliance reports. That covers Slack's own layer. If PHI may be shared in Slack, the BAA plus workspace configuration and retention settings are your responsibility, and you have to evidence that those settings operated.
What access does Screenata need to Slack?
The Screenata app requests scopes for sending briefings and DMs and for receiving the files you submit as evidence. You can review the scopes at install and remove the app at any time from your workspace settings.
Do I have to use the Screenata dashboard if I have the Slack app?
Mostly no. The program runs where you work: the 6:30 AM briefing summarizes readiness, action buttons respond inline, and dropping a file in a DM files it as classified evidence. The web app stays for auditors and deep dives.
Does Screenata run security checks on my Slack workspace?
No. Slack is Screenata's delivery and collection surface, not a scanned system. The native checks that produce signed evidence come from your infrastructure, identity, and code integrations; Slack is where the results and requests reach your team.
What happens if I ignore a compliance task in Slack?
Escalation is a ladder, not a flood: after 4 hours the task moves to a DM, after 24 hours to email, and after 48 hours to a banner. Every step is recorded, which itself evidences that your program chases follow-through.
What are the steps to implement SOC 2 with Slack?
Install the Screenata Slack app with the scopes for briefings, DMs, and attestation requests. Route the daily readiness briefing to the channel the people who act on it already read. Send evidence requests by DM so the long-tail artifacts land where the work happens instead of in a scrollback. Capture policy acknowledgments per person and let the escalation ladder chase the ones that go unanswered. Every delivery, submission, and acknowledgment is recorded as evidence with a timestamp. Slack is where requests and attestations are delivered and recorded; the native checks that produce configuration evidence come from your identity, infrastructure, and code integrations. Then hand the assembled package to an independent auditor. The audit is a separate engagement with a CPA firm; Screenata prepares the evidence and does not issue the report.
Can compliance evidence be collected through Slack?
Yes. Files dropped in the conversation are ingested, classified, and filed to the control they evidence, signed and timestamped like evidence from any other source. Policy acknowledgments requested in Slack are recorded per person, so the acknowledgment log auditors sample is built as people respond rather than reconstructed later.
Do auditors accept evidence Screenata collects from Slack?
Yes. Every finding is exported as a signed, timestamped artifact, a SHA-256 hash with an RSA or ECDSA signature and an RFC 3161 timestamp, that an auditor verifies outside Screenata with a free CLI. A person reviews and approves the evidence before it reaches the auditor. Screenata collects and signs it; it does not decide the audit result.
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