Increase Organizational Security Awareness

Material Security helps you cultivate a genuine security partnership with your employees, moving beyond compliance checklists to build a culture founded on trust and shared success. Our focus on deep integration within both your processes and technology enable your people to seamlessly become a part of your security solution. We provide the cohesive systems that make security tangible and visible, transforming your workforce from a potential risk into your most potent and engaged line of defense.

Problem: Traditional security training is broken

Many security awareness initiatives unintentionally create a culture of blame rather than partnership. They rely on abstract training and punitive tests that treat employees as a problem to be managed, which ultimately undermines the goal of creating a vigilant and resilient organization.

This approach leads to several foundational issues:

• A broken feedback loop: When employees use the "report phishing" button but receive no response, they feel ignored and doubt their input has any effect. This "black hole" erodes trust and discourages future reporting, effectively disabling your human sensor network.
• Security that feels punitive: "Gotcha" phishing simulations that single out employees for failure can create resentment and fear. When security is primarily experienced as a negative consequence, it fosters suspicion, not collaboration.
• Training that doesn't stick: Without practical, reinforcing systems, the lessons from annual or monthly training modules fade quickly. Security remains a theoretical concept, disconnected from the daily decisions employees make in their workflow.
• Friction that invites workarounds: When security measures are disruptive, difficult to navigate, or impede productivity, employees will inevitably find ways around them. A strong culture cannot coexist with tools that make your employees’ jobs harder unnecessarily.

Solution: Technology that works with employees, not against them

Material Security helps you operationalize a strong security culture. We provide frictionless, integrated tools that harden your posture, automatically detect and respond to threats: and all while fostering a virtuous cycle of positive reinforcement that makes it easy for employees to act as true security partners.

• Create a virtuous cycle with every user report: When an employee reports a threat, not only does Material’s proprietary AI investigate and remediate the report instantly, but the system also provides tangible, visible feedback, letting them know their action had a direct impact. Acknowledging their contribution and showing them the result closes the feedback loop and validates their role as a valued partner–without draining extremely limited time from the security team.
• Provide frictionless, in-context learning: For certain levels of email threats, instead of a hard block, security teams can use the speedbump feature to present users with a non-disruptive warning on suspicious links or attachments. The speedbump explains the risk in plain language and, depending on the threat level of the email, either blocks the links and attachments or trusts them to make an informed decision. This is a real-time, teachable moment that respects employee intelligence and reinforces learning within the flow of their work.
• Make good data hygiene an intuitive part of the job: A strong culture operationalizes security. By automating data protection without hampering productivity and collaboration, Material eliminates the impossible choice between security and productivity. When a sensitive file is over-shared, the platform can notify the owner with a simple explanation and easy remediation options. This makes data stewardship a seamless part of the daily routine, not a separate, burdensome task.

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