The Challenge
Legacy secure email gateways only inspect messages at the perimeter, leaving security teams blind to post-delivery activity, internal threats, and sophisticated attacks that bypass traditional detection.
Our Solution
Material integrates directly with your cloud workspace to continuously detect and remediate threats across every inbox, delivering deeper visibility and faster response without disrupting mail flow.
Hear it from our customers
“Previously, our security team would jump between this, that, and the other platform to investigate phishing reports and respond to detection alerts. I'd regularly have at least four different windows open to accomplish one task. Whereas with Material, it's a freaking breeze.”
Jae Ward
Security Analyst, Lyft
The Challenge
The legacy gateway stops watching the moment mail arrives
SEGs were built for a different era. They operate at the perimeter, inspecting an email once before it enters your environment. This outdated, perimeter-only architecture is fundamentally blind to the dynamic and collaborative nature of a modern cloud workspace.
- 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.
Our 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.
- 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.
- 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 workspace 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.
