Can Material work alongside our existing email security vendor?

Yes. Material deploys via API, not as an email gateway, so it works alongside any SEG or ICES tool already in your environment. Many customers start this way and consolidate once they've validated Material's detection capability.

What does Material's OAuth monitoring do that Google doesn't?

Google's admin console shows which third-party apps have been authorized and their stated permission scopes. Material's OAuth Remediation Agent monitors what those apps are actually doing — the real API calls they make in your environment — and classifies risk based on runtime behavior rather than stated permissions. Stale, over-permissioned, and malicious connections are flagged and can be automatically revoked.

Unified security for Gmail, Drive, and Accounts

Q: Does Material replace Google's native security controls?

No. Google has invested heavily in its native security features and they provide a genuine foundation. Material extends and operationalizes what Google provides, filling the gaps in detection depth, data classification, account containment, and OAuth monitoring that native controls weren't built to address. You keep everything Google gives you and get more on top of it.

Q: How does Material handle sensitive data in Drive, not just email?

Material scans Google Drive file content, not just metadata, for sensitive data including PII, PHI, financial data, and custom-defined criteria. It automatically identifies risky sharing settings, flags external sharing of sensitive files, and can revoke access when suspicious activity is detected. At the Advanced tier this includes full content scanning of both Gmail and Drive.

Material Security delivers AI-powered detection and response for Google Workspace — stopping advanced phishing, protecting sensitive data, containing account takeovers, and closing the OAuth back door.

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Wrapping your arms around Google Workspace is hard. You get black-box detections, an admin console that fights you, and controls built for a company a fraction of your size.

Google gets you 70% there, leaving you to stitch together multiple vendors and homegrown detections for the last mile.

Material closes the gap.

Today's attacks are designed to bypass Gmail’s filters: spoofed domains, impersonations, highly targeted social engineering. Material combines behavioral signals, threat research, and automated workflows so a confirmed threat anywhere is remediated everywhere. BEC, spear phishing, impersonation, QR code attacks: stopped before your team triages a single alert.

Every third-party app and AI agent connected to Workspace is a potential back door. OAuth grants accumulate silently but rapidly, forcing security teams to choose between accepting the risk of velocity or becoming the department of “no” and slowing down the business. Material’s OAuth agent audits every connection on an ongoing basis, identifies risky apps based on data access or behavior, and revokes dangerous tokens automatically.

Most organizations don't know where sensitive data lives in their cloud workspace, or what AI agents have access to. Material scans content in mailboxes and Drive, classifies what it finds, and protects it automatically by redacting sensitive content and right-sizing permissions. Users see only what their role requires, and connected AI agents inherit the same guardrails.

Material Security detecting and automatically remediating advanced email attacks in Google Workspace

Lean teams

The Challenge

Today’s security teams have too much surface to protect and too few hours to do so. They need to be able to scale, automate, and proactively prevent without losing efficacy.

What eats lean teams alive is manual work: triaging phishing, reviewing OAuth grants, scoping access after an incident. None of it scales, but all of it is table stakes.

Our Solution

Material automates the work so you can scale your security efforts.

An AI agent reviews every user-reported email and acts — no ticket, no queue. Material maps the blast radius the moment an account looks compromised, with an audit trail ready before a breach needs scoping. Mature security operations without adding headcount.

Google Workspace security automation for lean security teams

AI enablement

The Challenge

Every AI agent connected to Workspace, Gemini included, touches company data. Most third-party connections happen without review, accumulating permissions beyond what they need.

Blocking third-party tools entirely isn't sustainable. What's needed is the ability to understand and minimize data exposure, and visibility into what apps are connected and what they’re actually doing, not just what was granted at Authorize.

Our Solution

Material shows you what connected apps are actually doing.

Not just stated scopes — actual API calls against your data. Risky and malicious connections are flagged and revoked automatically, and data classification shows which sensitive files and messages those connections — and your AI tools — can reach.

Secure AI enablement across Google Workspace

Workspace sprawl

The Challenge

Your Workspace today looks nothing like the one you set up three years ago — sensitive data has piled up across inboxes and Drive: invoices, PII, files never locked down.

Security settings are just as scattered across separate consoles — phishing, account behavior, sharing, OAuth — and keeping them calibrated takes more than lean teams can sustain.

Our Solution

Material gives you the full picture.

Which sensitive data lives where, who can reach it? Where has access drifted from intent? When something's wrong, you fix it — not after a breach.

Google Workspace app sprawl security and access visibility

Comparison of Material Security, Google Workspace Essentials, and Google Workspace Enterprise+ capabilities
Capability	Material Security	Google Workspace Essentials	Google Workspace Enterprise+
01 Detect sophisticated attacks (BEC, impersonation, spear phishing)	Full support	Not supported	Not supported
02 AI agent automates user report triage	Full support	Not supported	Not supported
03 Automated remediations for email and files	Full support	Not supported	Partial support: Partial — limited and manual
04 Sensitive data classification in Gmail & Drive	Full support: Scans all mailboxes at rest	Not supported	Partial support: Partial — limited & requires configuration
05 Account takeover detection beyond login signals	Full support: Behavioral signals across Gmail and Drive	Not supported	Not supported
06 ATO containment without full account lockout	Full support: Granular, message-level controls	Not supported	Not supported
07 Malicious and suspicious OAuth automated remediation	Full support: Monitors and revokes malicious tokens automatically	Not supported	Not supported
08 Post-breach data access audit trail	Full support: Immutable, structured	Not supported	Not supported

“Material is built for Google Workspace. It's a very specific problem we're solving and Material does it really well. I feel like we can keep up with whatever's coming next.”

Lisa Hall CISO, Safebase

“We were able to drive a ton of value from Material with an extremely low amount of time invested by our on-call engineers.”

“Material is great because it provides us visibility and technical enforcement together. We set written policies at the top level, and Material provides us the technical capability to reinforce those written policies in Google.”

“Something that really stuck out to us was posture management as an element of the tool — there's a lot of really good context that would be hard to find in Google otherwise.”

No. Material connects via Google Workspace APIs, so you keep your existing mail flow and can be up and running in minutes. There's no DNS configuration required and no impact to business operations during rollout.

No — and that's not the idea. Google has invested heavily in its native security features and they provide a genuine foundation. Material extends and operationalizes what Google provides: filling the gaps in detection depth, data classification, account containment, and OAuth monitoring that native controls weren't built to address. You keep everything Google gives you. You just get more on top of it.

Material scans Google Drive file content (not just metadata) for sensitive data, including PII, PHI, financial data, and custom-defined criteria. It automatically identifies risky sharing settings, flags external sharing of sensitive files, and can revoke access when suspicious activity is detected. At the Advanced tier, this includes full content scanning of both Gmail and Drive.

Google's admin console shows you which third-party apps have been authorized and their stated permission scopes. Material's OAuth Remediation Agent monitors what those apps are actually doing — the real API calls they're making in your environment — and classifies risk based on runtime behavior rather than just stated permissions. Stale, over-permissioned, and malicious connections are flagged and can be automatically revoked.

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Unified security for Gmail, Drive, and Accounts

Google gets you 70% there, leaving you to stitch together multiple vendors and homegrown detections for the last mile.

Block sophisticated email attacks

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Contain account takeovers proactively

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Does Material replace Google's native security controls?

Can Material work alongside our existing email security vendor?

How does Material handle sensitive data in Drive — not just email?

What does Material's OAuth monitoring actually do that Google doesn't?

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