Material is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace

Material Security has been partnering with Google Cloud from the start, leveraging their world-class infrastructure to give organizations such as Mars, Lyft, and Databricks visibility and control over their entire email footprint.

The Wartime CISO — steering infosec during a global crisis with Joel de la Garza

Material CEO Ryan recently sat down with Joel de la Garza, who has previously managed security programs at global organizations like Deutsche Bank, Citi, and Box. He’s now an Operating Partner at multibillion dollar investment firm Andreessen Horowitz. The two discuss geopolitics and cybersecurity and offer advice for managing infosec programs during a crisis like the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Risky Biz Podcast: Modern Cloud-Native Data Infra and Security with Ryan Noon

CEO Ryan Noon joins the Risky Business podcast (starts at 47:54) with host Patrick Gray. They discuss the trend in security where new products are being built on top of modern cloud-native data infra, and how that enables us to deliver better visibility into risk at a much larger scale and lower cost than a traditional SIEM.

Automate Phishing Triage with Tines and Material

At Material, we know there's no such thing as a universal workflow when it comes to reviewing user-reported emails. Some organizations take a "hands-off" approach and let Material's Phishing Herd Immunity protect users in near-real time with link and attachment speed bumps or blocks. Other organizations with dedicated security staff complement this with a more in-depth approach—manually reviewing reported messages to unravel ongoing adversarial campaigns or identify attacker trends. No matter what your phishing triage workflow is, we believe having the ability to automate repetitive tasks should be possible and straightforward.

The Great Email Retention Policy Debate: When should you delete it and what should you keep?

“Not having an ego helps” and other secrets to enabling a high-growth business (while keeping it safe) with Datadog CISO Emilio Escobar

Material CEO Ryan recently sat down with Emilio Escobar, CISO of monitoring giant Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG). Emilio has been building and leading teams in Infosec for more than twenty years at major companies like Hulu and Sony. In this interview, Emilio discusses the dual role CISOs frequently must play in protecting an organization internally while accelerating its business externally. They also covered hiring security talent, the vendor/buyer relationship, security career advice, and much more.

Google Cloud Security Podcast: Beyond Phishing — Email Security Isn't Solved

Check out CEO Ryan Noon on the latest Google Cloud Security Podcast episode. Hosts Anton Chuvakin and Timothy Peacock chat with Ryan on ​​what we can do as an industry to make it easier to buy and get value out of our investments in new security tooling and tech.

Email’s evolution from messaging app to filing cabinet — and what it means for security

A version of this post appeared in Forbes.

From Hacker to CISO to Founder — a conversation with Signal Science’s Zane Lackey

Zane Lackey has had one of the broadest possible careers in Infosec, having been an elite consultant at iSec Partners, the first CISO at Etsy, and co-founder of Signal Sciences (which was acquired by Fastly last year). Material’s CEO, Ryan, recently sat down with Zane to discuss how to build out a security team, why and why not to get into the vendor business, and how to not suck as a security vendor.