Product Showcase: Introducing Data Protection for Google Drive

Last week we introduced Data Protection for Google Drive, a new product in our Cloud Office Security Suite. The product aims to control the spread of confidential information that's often shared loosely inside and outside of the organization. We held a Product Showcase session to dive deeper into the domain, our solution, and upcoming roadmap themes. Watch the session replay below, and read a recap of a few themes.

How to Use Email Behavior as Account Compromise Signals

In a previous blog post, I made the case that the typical approach to email threat detection and response is missing a critical element – containment. Simply relying on surface-level detections that monitor incoming and outgoing traffic isn't enough to safeguard the resources and data accessible via an email account. In this post, we'll focus on a few practical examples of email behaviors that Material has a unique ability to pinpoint that may indicate an account compromise.

CISO Series Podcast Interview: What Damage Can Threat Actors Do to Your Inbox?

Abhishek Agrawal joins the CISO Series podcast to discuss with David Spark why you need to protect the data in your productivity suite.

Material expands Data Protection to shared files with support for Google Drive

We’re introducing a new product to our Cloud Office Security Suite – Data Protection for Google Drive. Google Workspace customers can now leverage Material to illuminate blind spots and block exfiltration paths across your entire Google Drive footprint – swiftly, and with precision at scale.

Locking Down Internet Traffic in Kubernetes

Remote-First Culture Built on Flexibility, Boundary-Setting, Autonomy, and Meetups

In building the Material Security team, our co-founders focused on hiring the best people they’ve ever worked with to help them develop the best cloud office security product, regardless of their working location. As we’ve grown to over 100 teammates, both our hiring bar and our position on working location haven’t changed, and, because of this, our teammates benefit from a great level of autonomy and flexibility in their professional and personal lives.

Material Security + Tines: What Does ‘Better Together’ Really Mean?

Material recently revamped our partner program, and we’re continuously evolving the way we deliver customer value with our partners. In fact, it’s largely the reason I joined Material last year, to help shape those integrations and stories. As a Partnerships leader, I’m always searching for valuable and insightful integration stories, and what better place to start than with our own technology stack internally? Material Security has been a Tines customer for a few years, and in late 2023 Tines became a Material Security customer.

Material’s Single-Tenant Model for Enhanced Data Privacy and Customization

Material Security’s unique optional deployment model eliminates many traditional sources of third-party risk by providing full infrastructure transparency and data isolation to our customers. Material customers have the option to deploy in their own Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project that is single-tenant and fully isolated from other customers. This enables a business approach which requires less trust while simultaneously enabling us to fully customize each environment for feature rollout or customer needs.

Silver Linings Playbook: Takeaways From Our SEC AMA.

While there are no security silver bullets, there's often silver linings. Following an engaging AMA on the topic of recent SEC regulations for disclosing cybersecurity incidents deemed material to investor confidence, our panel of experts all agree – there's positive outcomes once you get past the initial fear.