The Challenge

Google Workspace’s native security tools are powerful but fragmented and time-consuming to manage, forcing teams into repetitive investigations while making it difficult to maintain visibility and consistent controls.

Our Solution

Material extends Google’s native capabilities with a unified security layer that automates investigations, threat response, and data protection while preserving the workflows and tools already in place.

Layered security signals converging around a contained account takeover event

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The Challenge

Juggling between consoles and APIs is hard

Account takeover moving through layered identity security boundaries

While the native security tools within Google Workspace are powerful, they are also time-consuming to manage and lack a single, unified view across the environment. Security teams spend hours on manual investigations, from triaging phishing emails to searching logs to auditing the permissions of sensitive Google Drive files.

  • High time investment Critical security functions, like responding to user-reported phishing threats or identifying data exposure, are manual, repetitive, and don't scale with company growth.
  • Lack of visibility It's difficult to get a clear, centralized picture of where sensitive data lives, who has access to it, and how it's being shared across Gmail and Google Drive.
  • Risk of misconfiguration The complexity of Google's settings and permissions models makes it easy for misconfigurations to occur, leading to data sprawl and inadvertent security gaps.
  • Disruptive security Attempts to lock down the environment with native controls can be overly restrictive, creating friction for employees and hindering business operations.

Our Solution

Operationalize and automate Google Workspace security

Step-up authentication protecting sensitive data behind intersecting security boundaries

Material Security extends Google's native tools by providing a unified security layer to automate even high-level tasks and simplify complex security operations. The platform turns the native environment into a more defensible and manageable asset.

  • Automate and accelerate threat response Material automates the triage and remediation of user-reported phishing emails, reducing investigation time from 30 minutes per incident to just a few minutes for a day's worth of reports. The platform handles the repetitive analysis, allowing your team to focus only on credible threats.
  • Tame data sprawl in Google Drive Material continuously scans and classifies data in Google Drive, identifying toxic combinations of sensitive information, excessive permissions, and risky external sharing. When a risk is found, automated workflows can instantly revoke access or quarantine the file, securing your data without manual intervention.
  • Detect identity threats and potential account takeovers Material’s visibility across the entire Workspace environment enables the platform to find and correlate subtle indicators of compromise that other detection and response platforms would miss, providing early detection of potential account takeover attacks and containing their potential spread.
  • Protect data without disrupting workflows Material secures sensitive data in mailboxes with an additional layer of protection by requiring MFA to access it, providing protection even after an account has been compromised. This allows you to apply strict, zero-trust controls without restrictive policies that get in the way of collaboration.

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