The Challenge
Traditional phishing training relies on artificial simulations and negative reinforcement, discouraging employees from reporting real threats while overwhelming security teams with false positives and low-value alerts.
Our Solution
Material turns real threats into safe training opportunities, rewarding employee reporting with visible impact while automatically clustering, enriching, and remediating reports to reduce the burden on security teams.
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 & Compliance, Instabase
The Challenge
Traditional training doesn't stick
Most security awareness programs are built around artificial phishing simulations and negative reinforcement. You send a fake phishing email, an employee clicks, and they get a stern warning page. This approach is fundamentally flawed and fails to build a lasting security mindset.
- Negative reinforcement fails "Click shaming" employees who fail a test makes them afraid to report real mistakes. It teaches them to hide their clicks, not to be more vigilant.
- No positive feedback loop When an employee correctly reports a phishing attack, their report often disappears into a black box. They receive no feedback and see no tangible impact, which erodes their motivation to report threats in the future.
- Analyst burnout Security teams get flooded with user-reported messages, spending valuable time sifting through spam and false positives instead of focusing on credible threats.
Our Solution
Create a culture of security through safe, real-world experience
Material’s approach is different: it gives employees safe, hands-on experience with defanged versions of real threats, directly in their inbox, and shows them the positive impact of their actions.
- Incentivize reporting with herd immunity When one employee reports a defanged phish, Material can automatically find and remediate that same threat across every other inbox in the organization. This creates a powerful, positive feedback loop: employees see that their actions directly protect their colleagues, turning them into active participants in security.
- Realistic, integrated simulations Run phishing simulations that are about more than just a click rate. Material's simulations train users on the exact same reporting workflow they use for real threats, building critical muscle memory.
- Streamlined triage for security teams Material automatically clusters similar user reports, enriches them with context, and allows for bulk remediation. This frees your security team from chasing false positives so they can focus on what matters.
