I mean the next step is to have an automated phone call go out to people (which is what we do for critical alerts).
Short of that, slack is on my desktop, laptop, and phone. If i don't have one of those around me at the time, you aren't getting ahold of me for any reason.
So yeah i think it's perfectly valid for security-critical notifications.
Plus this isn't as security critical as you'd think. I don't want klaxons going off every time someone sshs into a server... This can just be an additional layer of security.
I use IRC, but come on. It offers a lot more than IRC right out of the box.
* File uploads
* Embedding portions of links (tweets, images)
* A very good search
* Multi-line posts
* Code-formatting, including multi-line posts, and also snippets.
* A mobile client that alerts you when someone mentions you.
* Scroll-back history when you sign on at any time.
* Syncing between multiple clients.
Yes, you could create a bot or modify an irc server to do this, and then find or write a client that will do all that stuff, and an irc bouncer can fill in for a lot of this.
But Slack does it out of the box. Zero extra work needed.
I like IRC, but if you claim that Slack doesn't offer anything more than IRC, you're either delusional or using an incredibly broad definition of IRC.
I mean the next step is to have an automated phone call go out to people (which is what we do for critical alerts).
Short of that, slack is on my desktop, laptop, and phone. If i don't have one of those around me at the time, you aren't getting ahold of me for any reason.
So yeah i think it's perfectly valid for security-critical notifications. Plus this isn't as security critical as you'd think. I don't want klaxons going off every time someone sshs into a server... This can just be an additional layer of security.