22-02-2017 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com

Dropbox’s open-source Slack bot spots suspicious activity and chats with employees about it

EXCLUSIVE: About a year ago, Dropbox built a bot to respond to suspicious activity, and today that bot is being made available to anyone interested in using the bot or making their own version.
Named Securitybot, the bot chats with Dropbox employees inside Slack after suspicious activity is detected on their computer, email, or when they’re attempting to access sensitive parts of Dropbox servers. The employee is asked for an explanation of the activity in Slack, then an additional pus
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