SlackSecOps - delegating remediation to employees

In the Delegating security remediation to employees via Slack article, Maya Kaczorowski coins the term SlackSecOps to describe automation and delegation of security tasks to employees.
The article gives a nice overview of some ideas that are more and more applied by security teams and tools.

A couple years ago such ideas were mostly custom built bots/automations at larger companies, but not shared more widely.
Nowadays there seems to be a much broader adoption of these in companies, especially the Alert and Remind categories.
The most interesting ones are Delegation and Respond, which I would claim also can have the most impact.

By delegating security remediation tasks directly to the involved persons, the handling of the task becomes more efficient as all the context is available.
And then by providing the automation to the delegee to directly perform the remediation in self-service, this critically shortens the response cycle.
With the shortened response cycle, the exposure window of a vulnerable configuration is minimized, which reduces the risk of exploitation.

The four categories of security interactions via Slack: Remind, Alert, Delegate, Respond

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