The Challenge
Generic phishing simulations train employees to recognize obvious fakes, not the sophisticated attacks actually targeting their organization, creating misleading metrics and a false sense of security.
Our Solution
Material turns real-world attacks into safe, realistic phishing simulations, helping teams train employees on the tactics they actually face while reducing the effort required to build relevant campaigns.
Hear it from our customers
“We're seeing much better adoption because Material allows us to tailor our phishing campaigns to what we're actually seeing in the industry. And it takes a lot of that burden off the end user, which is fantastic for us.”
Chris Ulrich
Director of Security and Compliance, Instabase
The Challenge
Generic simulations create a false sense of security
Most security awareness training relies on a library of generic, easily-spotted phishing templates. While this checks a compliance box, it fails to prepare employees for the reality of modern, targeted attacks and can be even worse than no training at all.
- Irrelevant templates Your organization is targeted by subtle vendor impersonation and sophisticated Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, but your employees are being trained with "Your package has shipped" templates that look nothing like the real thing.
- Training the wrong behavior When employees are only tested against obvious fakes, they learn how to pass a test, not how to identify a well-crafted, malicious email. This can lead to overconfidence and a higher failure rate when a genuine threat lands in their inbox.
- Administrative toil Security teams waste precious time trying to build convincing phishing templates from scratch or wading through thousands of irrelevant options in a vendor's library.
- Misleading metrics Measuring click-rates on generic templates tells you very little about your organization's true risk profile. You have no way of knowing if you are resilient against the actual tactics attackers are using against you.
Our Solution
Train with the enemy's actual playbook
Material allows you to turn the threats you face every day into your most powerful security training tool. By using sanitized versions of real-world attacks, you can create hyper-relevant phishing simulations that prepare your employees for the real thing.
- Real-world template generation Take any email that Material has identified as a threat and, with a single click, convert it into a safe simulation template. The platform automatically defangs all malicious links and attachments, allowing you to reuse an attacker's own work against them.
- Highly relevant training Train your employees on the exact tactics, lures, and sender impersonations that are actively targeting your company. This builds resilient, context-aware security habits that generic templates simply can't match.
- Effortless campaign creation Stop building templates from scratch. With Material, you can quickly build a library of high-fidelity, relevant simulations based on the threats you've already seen, launching a new campaign in minutes.
- Actionable, contextual insights Get clear reports on campaign performance to understand which employees and departments are most vulnerable. More importantly, you can see which types of real-world attacks are most effective, allowing you to tailor your defenses and future training.
