# Slack

## Introduction 

Slack is a cloud-based collaboration and communication platform designed to facilitate team communication and workflow. It offers a range of tools and features that help teams communicate, share files, and organize their work effectively. This guide will walk you through the steps required to integrate Slack with Perimeters.

## Available Features

* Misconfiguration Rules
* Identity Rules
* User Inventory
* Shadow  Application Rules
* Shadow  Application Inventory

## Prerequisites

A Slack workspace account user with the following required privileges, or you can also use a Super Admin Account.

## Required Privileges

<table><thead><tr><th width="295">Scope</th><th>Use</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>admin</td><td>Read access to workspace</td></tr><tr><td>users:read</td><td>Read access to people in a workspace</td></tr><tr><td>channels:read</td><td>Read access to view basic information about public channels in a workspace</td></tr><tr><td>groups:read</td><td>Read access to view basic information about private channels</td></tr><tr><td>mpim:read</td><td>Read access to view basic information about group direct messages</td></tr><tr><td>im:read</td><td>Read access to view basic information about direct messages</td></tr><tr><td>team.billing:read</td><td>Allows your slack app to read the billing plan for workspaces your slack app has been installed to</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Onboarding Slack in your Perimeters account

1. Go to "Integrations" -> Select "Slack" -> Click "+ Add" -> Click "+ Start Integration".
2. **"OAuth" -**\
   Click "Sign in with Slack" -> Check all the scopes checkboxes and click on "Continue".
3. Click "Finish" to complete the onboarding process.

Once you have completed these steps, Slack should be successfully integrated with your Perimeters account.

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