Distribute the Security Burden

Your security team is talented, but it's also outnumbered. The traditional model of security as a centralized gatekeeper creates bottlenecks and slows the business down. A more scalable approach is to distribute security responsibility, empowering every employee to make safe decisions within their daily workflows. Material builds these simple, secure guardrails directly into the tools your employees use every day.

Problem: Your security team is a bottleneck

In most organizations, the security team is the central point for every security-related question, alert, and phishing report. This model simply doesn't scale, leading to overwhelmed teams and frustrated users.

This creates a culture where security is seen as an obstacle, not a shared responsibility:

• Infinite work, finite resources: The volume of phishing reports, alerts, and user requests is constantly growing, but your security team's headcount is not. This leads to analyst burnout, slow response times, and a higher risk of a real threat being missed.
• Security gets in the way: When security policies are overly restrictive and block legitimate work, employees will inevitably find less secure workarounds. This creates shadow IT and undermines the very policies designed to protect the organization.
• Broken feedback loop: An employee reports a phishing attacl and... nothing happens. They don't know if it was received, if it was malicious, or if their action made any difference. This lack of feedback actively discourages them from reporting in the future.
• Users lack context: Employees generally want to do the right thing, but they often lack the information they need at the moment of decision. Is this link safe to click? Does this file contain sensitive information? Traditional tools don't provide this context.

Solution: Make every employee an extension of the security team

Material flips the traditional security model by building simple, safe, and automated workflows that empower your entire workforce to be the first line of defense. We help you scale your security program by distributing the burden and making security a shared, collaborative effort.

Here’s how Material solves the problem:

• Automate user-powered phishing response: Turn every user into a threat sensor with automated user reporting. When an employee reports a phishing email, Material can automatically analyze it and, if found malicious, instantly remove it from every other inbox in the company. This provides an immediate, positive feedback loop that incentivizes reporting.
• Provide guardrails, not gates: Instead of bluntly blocking user actions, Material can provide in-context "speedbumps." For example, if a user is about to share a file containing sensitive PII externally, a simple, non-blocking prompt can ask them to confirm their action. This encourages mindful behavior and educates users without disrupting productivity.
• Give users the context they need: Material's warnings are specific and educational. Banners on suspicious emails explain why they are risky (e.g., "This sender is impersonating a VIP"), and prompts on files identify the type of sensitive data present. This helps users build better security instincts over time.
• Free up your experts to be experts: By automating the response to high-volume, low-complexity events and empowering users to self-remediate, Material frees up your security analysts. They can stop chasing down every user-reported phish and focus on investigating the sophisticated, high-impact threats that truly require their expertise.

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