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Request a demo to see how Material's industry-first OAuth Threat Remediation Agent monitors and protects shadow IT.
Shadow IT is often treated as an inventory problem, but for a lean security team, it’s a bandwidth problem too. You likely have a list of thousands of third-party applications connected to your Google Workspace environment. Most of them are zombie apps—tools an employee used once for a specific task and then forgot about, yet the app still retains broad permissions to read their calendar, manage their files, and more.
The burden of the "detect and notify" cycle
Traditional SSPM tools are excellent at creating lists, but they’re terrible at taking action. They flood your SOC with alerts about every new "PDF Converter" or "Calendar Linker" installed by a curious employee. This leaves the security team with two bad options: spend hours manually vetting low-risk apps or ignore the alerts entirely until a "verified" app causes an incident.
The result is a "paper tiger" security posture: you have the visibility, but you lack the operational capacity to do anything with it. You’re left with a massive, unmanaged attack surface of machine identities that you’re technically aware of but practically unable to govern.
AI threat triage and automated cleanup
Material uses AI to handle the "boring" parts of Shadow IT governance so your team can focus on actual threats. We use automation to bridge the gap between discovery and remediation.
- Bilateral Remediation: When an employee installs a newa, unknown app, Material’s AI agent sends them a Slack message: "Did you just install this?" If they say "No," the agent revokes the app immediately and flags it for investigation. This turns your entire workforce into a distributed triage team.
- Automated Zombie App Cleanup: Material’s AI identifies applications that haven't been used in 90 days and automatically revokes their access. This continuously shrinks your attack surface without requiring a single manual audit.
- Permission Right-Sizing: Material uses AI to prioritize apps with "dangerous" scopes—like the ability to modify Gmail settings or delete Drive files—ensuring your team only spends time on the integrations that actually pose a risk to the business.
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