Slack ChatOps for DevSecOps Teams

Channel architecture, alert routing, and slash-command integrations for security and platform workflows.

Slack ChatOps for DevSecOps Teams

Channel taxonomy

Channel	Purpose
`#incidents`	SEV-1/2 war room
`#security-alerts`	SIEM high-fidelity only
`#deploys-prod`	Automated deploy notifications
`#rfc`	Architecture proposals

Alert hygiene

Route actionable alerts only to #security-alerts
Thread per incident; pin status message
Integrate PagerDuty → Slack with acknowledge buttons

ChatOps examples

/deploy status payments-api query pipeline
/vault token lookup break-glass audited workflow
GitHub app: PR security check summary in thread

Norms

No secrets in chat use ephemeral links
Rotate channel membership for incidents
Archive and export incident threads to post-mortem doc