Ten Cybersecurity Slack Apps Every Team Should Be Using

A practical guide for incident-ready teams with too many tabs open

Slack has quietly become the operations center for cybersecurity. ChatOps, if you will. Whether it’s real-time alerts, incident response huddles, or “Can someone PLEASE rotate the API keys?”, the platform has evolved beyond chat into a workflow engine. But without structure, it becomes chaos.

That’s where Slack apps come in. From streamlining stand-ups to triggering postmortems, the right integrations can help security teams stay sharp, reduce noise, and automate the tedious stuff nobody wants to own.

Here are 10 Slack apps, suggested by our team and our clients, that every SOC should have in its stack. These cover team enablement, secure collaboration, and productivity, with some basic pricing (at time of writing) and limitations called out so you don’t get stung by a surprise invoice.

1. 🔗 Standuply
   Price: Free tier (1 stand-up, 3 users); Paid plans start at $5/user/month
   Best for: Asynchronous daily stand-ups, retros, status checks
   Security teams don’t always overlap in hours or energy levels. Standuply automates check-ins via Slack, letting you schedule async stand-ups with prompts like “Any active vulnerabilities today?” or “What’s blocking you from reviewing those audit logs?” It also allows for “Questions of the Day,” which is surprisingly popular and solid for team building.
   Limitations: Free version supports just one stand-up and lacks advanced reporting.‍
2. 🔗 Halp (by Atlassian)
   Price: Free for small teams; paid from $12/user/month
   Best for: Managing internal security tickets inside Slack
   Let’s be honest, cyber teams often get dragged into the “can you unlock this?” requests. Halp lets you turn Slack messages into tickets with emoji reactions. It’s fast, traceable, and works with Jira, Zendesk, etc. No more chasing untracked DMs.
   Limitations: Free version lacks advanced workflows or reporting.‍
3. 🔗 PagerDuty
   Price: Starts at $19/user/month (Slack integration included)
   Best for: On-call alerting and real-time incident response
   If your threat detection tools send alerts, you need a way to route them intelligently. PagerDuty’s Slack integration notifies the right person, lets them acknowledge/escalate in-channel, and starts incident war rooms fast. It reduces the flailing during real incidents.
   Limitations: Requires PagerDuty subscription to use.‍
4. 🔗 Donut
   Price: Free tier; paid from $49/month
   Best for: Onboarding new security team members, knowledge sharing, breaking silos
   Donut is usually used for team bonding, but the SOC can adapt it to run mentorship pairings, rotate IR buddies, or share recent learnings (“What’s your weirdest phishing email this week?”). Helpful for building cohesion in hybrid setups.
   Limitations: Free plan limited to 12 intros/month.‍
5. 🔗 Simple Poll
   Price: Free up to 100 votes/month; paid from $49/month
   Best for: Quick security team consensus, retrospectives, anonymous feedback
   ‍Whether you’re debating tool choices or doing incident postmortems, Simple Poll gives you fast, structured feedback. It’s less interruptive than meetings, and ideal for async teams asking “Did our MFA rollout go smoothly?”
   Limitations: The Free plan lacks anonymity and advanced features.‍
6. 🔗 GitLab Slack Integration
   Price: Free
   Best for: Security PR reviews, dependency alerts, dev hygiene
   ‍Tighten the DevSecOps feedback loop. These integrations notify Slack channels when pull requests are created, dependencies updated, or security advisories pop up. It’s great for staying ahead of bad merges and stale secrets.
   Limitations: Channel noise can get intense—curate notifications carefully.‍‍
7. 🔗 ‍Lucidchart / 🔗 Miro Slack Integration
   Price: Free plans available; full features from $7–$10/user/month
   Best for: Visualising incident response plans, asset maps, and system architecture
   ‍Security teams deal with complexity—network diagrams, trust boundaries, IR playbooks. Lucidchart and Miro’s Slack integrations let you comment, share, and co-edit diagrams directly from Slack, keeping everyone visually aligned.
   Limitations: Free tiers limit document storage and collaboration tools.‍
8. 🔗 1Password Slack Integration
   Price: Teams plan starts at $19.95/month for 10 users
   Best for: Notifying teams of vault access, credential changes, and password hygiene
   Disclaimer: I’m a 1Password fanboy and have a personal account - you don’t work in cybersecurity without becoming digitally paranoid.
   You don’t want credentials in Slack, but it’s helpful to know when they’re being accessed or updated. 1Password’s Slack integration gives visibility into shared vault activity, without the risk of leaking secrets.
   Limitations: Read-only notifications only, with no secret access from Slack itself.‍
9. 🔗 Polly
   Price: Free for up to 25 responses per month; paid from $29/month
   Best for: Lightweight security surveys, pulse checks, IR feedback
   Polly helps run lightweight polls and surveys, useful for asking “Did the recent security training help?” or “How confident were you in our last phishing drill?” Also good for anonymous reporting of internal security blockers.
   Limitations: Free tier is pretty limited in volume and features.‍
10. 🔗 Giphy (used responsibly)
    Price: Free
    Best for: Celebrating patched vulns, IR war room morale, and roasting each other’s regex
    ‍Sure, Giphy gets a bad rap in serious contexts. But cybersecurity can be intense, and humor helps teams bond. A well-timed fail GIF in an incident retrospective can help defuse tension and keep things human. Just… maybe not during the CISO’s review.
    Limitations: Some orgs block external media for DLP reasons. Use wisely.‍
11. Bonus: Channel Etiquette App (Custom or DIY)
    While not a prebuilt app, many orgs use a custom Slackbot or Workflow Builder automation to enforce channel hygiene. E.g., reminding users not to post credentials or runbook screenshots in open threads. It’s worth implementing if you’re scaling or auditing.

All in on Slack

Slack isn’t just for talking anymore. For cybersecurity teams, it’s where alerts surface, context is shared, and actions are taken. The apps above help bridge the gap between conversation and coordination, letting your team respond faster, stay aligned, and work smarter across tools.

Notably absent here? Anything that duplicates cloud infrastructure entitlement management, privileged access management, just-in-time provisioning, deprovisioning, or least-privilege workflows. For those, you’re better off integrating your Slack with a dedicated identity lifecycle management and access platform. One that handles access visibility, cloud app permissions, and revocation correctly. One where access requests can be made in Slack (and Teams). You know the one. With Trustle, users can request access directly in Slack using simple commands or message actions. Approvals happen in-channel, and once approved, access is provisioned automatically, just-in-time and time-bound, then revoked when it expires, all fully logged for audit and compliance.

Until then: automate what you can, protect the channel, and never underestimate the value of a perfectly timed security meme.