Reduce Manual Security Operational and Engineering Work

Material Security provides a unified platform that automates the endless, repetitive tasks that consume your security team's time and resources. By providing broad visibility across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and replacing manual workflows with intelligent automation, the platform eliminates the need for a mish-mash of fragmented point solutions and custom engineering work, freeing your team to focus on more strategic initiatives.

Problem: Too much manual oversight, too little time

Modern security teams are stretched thin, and wasting time on manual operational tasks that can and should be automated means less time spent on high-impact security improvements. They are burdened by a collection of disconnected tools and forced to write their own code just to achieve basic visibility and control over their cloud environment.

This operational drag creates several significant pain points:

• Fragmented tools lead to endless context-switching: Security analysts jump between the native Microsoft or Google admin center, a CASB, DLP solutions, and SIEMs, trying to piece together a coherent picture of a single threat. No single tool provides the full context needed to make a fast, accurate decision.
• Repetitive, manual tasks consume the majority of the workday: Critical functions—like triaging user-reported phishing emails, running periodic audits of cloud file permissions, or investigating risky user configurations—are manual, time-consuming, and don't scale with the organization.
• Security engineering becomes a bottleneck: To fill the gaps left by their tools, teams are forced to build their own solutions. Engineers spend valuable cycles writing and maintaining brittle scripts to parse logs, query APIs, and automate simple remediations—work that takes them away from proactive initiatives.
• Good security hygiene is nearly impossible to maintain: Without automation, security posture inevitably drifts. Small misconfigurations and risky behaviors accumulate into thousands of issues, creating a massive backlog of manual cleanup work that most teams can never get ahead of.

Solution: One automated platform for the entire cloud office

Material Security replaces manual toil and fragmented tools with a single, automated platform that handles the repetitive work for you. The platform provides the deep visibility and powerful, out-of-the-box automation that security teams don’t have the time to build and maintain for themselves.

• Replace fragmented point solutions with a unified platform: Material’s deep integration across email, files, users, and applications provides a single place to see and act on risk. This eliminates the "swivel chair" analysis required to investigate threats and gives your team the full context they need to act decisively.
• Automate the entire phishing response lifecycle: Material turns the most time-consuming operational task into a massive time-saver. We can reduce the time spent investigating a day's worth of user-reported threats from hours to just a few minutes, freeing up your security operations team for more complex threat hunting.
• Turn manual data audits into an automated, self-healing process: Instead of running quarterly audits of cloud data permissions, Material continuously monitors for risky sharing and misconfigurations. Our automated workflows can notify file owners to self-remediate issues or even fix them automatically based on your policies.
• Reduce the need for custom scripts and engineering overhead: Material provides the powerful, out-of-the-box automation and visibility that teams would otherwise have to build and maintain themselves. This allows your security engineers to stop focusing on tedious plumbing and start focusing on high-value strategic projects.

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