Connect APVISO with Slack

How APVISO Integrates with Slack

APVISO's Slack integration keeps your security and engineering teams informed in real-time as AI agents discover vulnerabilities. Rather than checking a dashboard periodically, your team gets actionable alerts in the channels where they already work.

Real-Time Vulnerability Alerts

When APVISO's scanner agent confirms a vulnerability, a rich Slack message is posted to your configured channel within seconds. The message includes a color-coded severity indicator (red for Critical, orange for High, yellow for Medium, blue for Low), the vulnerability title, the affected URL or endpoint, a brief description, and a button to view the full finding in the APVISO dashboard.

For Critical and High severity findings, the alert is immediate — your security team knows about a critical SQL injection or authentication bypass the moment it is discovered, even if the scan has hours of testing remaining. This is a fundamental shift from traditional pentesting where you receive a report days or weeks after the engagement.

Channel Routing Strategy

Most teams do not want every security finding in their main channel. APVISO lets you set up sophisticated routing rules:

• #security-critical: Receives only Critical and High severity findings, with @channel mentions to ensure immediate attention
• #security-all: Receives all findings as they are discovered, used by the security team for monitoring
• #engineering-security: Receives scan completion summaries so developers know when new findings need attention
• Per-target routing: Send findings for api.example.com to #backend-security and findings for app.example.com to #frontend-security

Each channel can have its own severity threshold, notification style (individual alerts vs. batched digests), and mention preferences.

Slash Commands for Scan Management

The APVISO Slack bot supports several slash commands that let your team interact with APVISO without leaving Slack:

• /apviso scan <target> — Start a new scan against a verified target
• /apviso status — Check the status of all running scans
• /apviso findings <scan-id> — Get a summary of findings from a specific scan
• /apviso report <scan-id> — Request and receive a PDF report link

This is particularly useful for DevOps teams who want to trigger scans as part of deployment workflows. A deployment bot can call /apviso scan after each production release, and the results appear in the same Slack channel where deployment notifications are posted.

Threaded Scan Updates

When a scan starts, APVISO posts an initial message with scan details (target, scan type, estimated duration). All subsequent updates for that scan — individual findings, progress updates, and the completion summary — are posted as replies in the same thread. This keeps your channels clean while preserving a complete audit trail for each scan.

The scan completion message in the thread includes a summary table: total findings broken down by severity, scan duration, the number of endpoints tested, and links to the full report and individual finding details.

Digest and Summary Reports

Not every team member needs real-time alerts. APVISO can send scheduled digest messages — daily or weekly — that summarize:

• New vulnerabilities discovered in the period
• Vulnerabilities that have been retested and verified as fixed
• Open vulnerabilities by severity and age
• Upcoming scheduled scans

These digests provide executives and team leads with a high-level security posture overview without the noise of individual finding alerts.

Integration with Incident Response

When APVISO discovers a Critical vulnerability, the Slack alert can include action buttons to escalate directly: create a PagerDuty incident, file a Jira ticket, or start a dedicated Slack channel for incident response. Combined with the PagerDuty integration, this creates a seamless path from vulnerability discovery to incident resolution.

Privacy and Access Control

The APVISO Slack bot only posts to channels you explicitly configure. Finding details in Slack messages include enough context for triage but do not expose full exploitation payloads in channel messages — those are only available through the secure link to the APVISO dashboard. You can also configure the bot to post redacted summaries in shared channels while sending full details via DM to designated security team members.