Modernize Your Approach to Email Security

Your organization runs on a modern cloud workspace, yet the primary defense for its most critical application—email—is often a legacy Secure Email Gateway (SEG) designed for on-premise servers. This perimeter-only approach is no longer sufficient. Material offers a modern, API-first platform that provides unparalleled visibility and control inside your cloud workspace, where the real threats manifest.

Problem: The legacy gateway is a blindfold, not a shield

SEGs were built for a different era. They operate at the perimeter, inspecting an email once before it enters your environment. This outdated, castle-and-moat architecture is fundamentally blind to the dynamic and collaborative nature of a modern cloud workspace.

This approach leaves you exposed to significant risks:

• No post-delivery visibility: A SEG has no idea what happens to an email after it's delivered. It cannot see if a user forwards a malicious message, if a dormant URL is later weaponized, or if a compromised account starts sending threats internally.
• Bypassed by modern attacks: Sophisticated threats like Business Email Compromise (BEC) often contain no malicious payload for a gateway to scan. Attackers using compromised partner accounts can waltz right past a SEG because the sender appears legitimate.
• Clunky, disruptive integration: SEGs require you to change your MX records, routing all your mail through a third-party service. This adds latency, creates a single point of failure, and can break native features in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, disrupting user workflows.
• Slow, manual incident response: When a phish inevitably gets through, a SEG is of no use. Your security team is forced to conduct a slow, manual hunt through mail logs to find all affected users, a process that can take hours or even days while the attack spreads.

Solution: A deeply integrated security layer for the modern inbox

Material’s API-based platform integrates directly with your cloud workspace, giving you a powerful security layer that works from the inside out. Instead of just guarding the perimeter, Material provides continuous monitoring and response capabilities within the mailboxes themselves.

Here’s how Material solves the problem:

• Complete environmental visibility: By integrating via APIs, Material has a real-time, comprehensive view of your entire mail environment. It analyzes not just inbound messages, but also internal mail, historical data, and user behavior to detect threats that SEGs are blind to.
• Advanced inbound and internal defense: Material combines cutting-edge inbound threat detection with the unique ability to monitor for internal risks. This allows you to catch email threats that bypass the perimeter, such as an attacker using a compromised account to launch an internal phishing campaign.
• Frictionless, native deployment: Material deploys in minutes via a secure API connection. There are no MX record changes to make. This means no mail flow interruptions, no added latency, and no broken workflows for your users. It enhances your cloud security without disrupting it.
• Automated detection and response in minutes: When a threat is detected or reported, Material automates your response. The platform can find every instance of a malicious message across all inboxes and remediate them by deleting, moving to spam, or speedbumping based on your company’s risk appetite. A multi-hour manual effort is condensed into a few minutes.

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