Detect and Fix Risky User Behavior

Material Security provides deep, continuous insight into your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environment, allowing you to automatically detect and remediate risky user behaviors that create hidden backdoors and undermine your security posture. We replace manual hunting and scripting with an automated system that makes it easy to enforce good security hygiene at scale, ensuring your security policies are actually being followed.

Problem: Security posture changes over time

Your organization’s security posture is not static: it’s constantly changing based on the actions of your employees. Users inadvertently create significant security gaps through seemingly benign behaviors, and native platform tools make it incredibly difficult to find and fix these issues across an entire workforce.

This creates several persistent risks that are often invisible to security teams:

• A constant state of configuration drift: As employees set up email forwarding, authorize third-party apps, and create new settings, your security posture quietly drifts away from its intended state. This creates thousands of unique, user-driven risks that are nearly impossible to track manually.
• Hidden backdoors that bypass your defenses: A user who sets up an app-specific password to connect to a legacy email client has unknowingly created a way to access their account that bypasses MFA. An auto-forwarding rule to a personal email address creates an unauthorized and unsecured copy of every piece of data they receive.
• A critical lack of visibility: Finding these issues with native tools is a painful, manual process. Security teams are forced to run complex PowerShell scripts or navigate dozens of menus in the admin console just to answer a simple question like, "Which users are forwarding their email outside the company?"
• Remediation that doesn't scale: Even when a risky behavior is found, fixing it requires a manual, time-consuming effort of contacting the user and guiding them through a complex settings change. This process simply cannot keep up in an organization of any meaningful size.

Solution: A single platform to find and fix user-driven risk

Material Security provides a single pane of glass to manage user-driven risk across your entire cloud office. We turn the chaos of user configurations into a manageable and automated system, allowing you to continuously enforce a strong security posture.

• Gain a unified view of user-driven risk: Material continuously monitors your environment to provide a clear, centralized dashboard of risky behaviors. See every user with an auto-forwarding rule, an active app-specific password, risky third-party app authorizations, or unusual delegate access in one place.
• Find and eliminate hidden backdoorvvs: The platform specifically flags the configurations that create the most risk, allowing you to instantly identify and prioritize threats—like credentials that bypass MFA or forwarding rules that leak a constant stream of data to unsecured, external accounts.
• Remediate risks with a single click: Material doesn't just show you problems; it makes them easy to fix. When you identify a risky setting, you can revoke it directly from the Material console with a single click. There is no need to hunt down the right menu in the native admin center or write a custom script.
• Automate your security hygiene: You can create policies in Material to automatically remediate certain behaviors as soon as they are detected. For example, you can enforce a policy to automatically disable any new app-specific passwords, ensuring your baseline security posture no longer drifts and is maintained without any manual effort.