Reduce the Operational Complexity Google's Native Tools

Material Security strengthens and simplifies Google Workspace's out-of-the-box security capabilities. Our unified platform saves security teams time by automating complex and manual tasks, providing deep visibility across email and Drive, and enabling powerful, automated remediation actions without disrupting user productivity.

Problem: Juggling between consoles and APIs is hard

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.

This operational overhead creates significant pain points:

• 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.

Solution: Operationalize and automate Google Workspace security

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. Our 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 robust, zero-trust controls without implementing restrictive policies that get in the way of collaboration.

With holistic visibility, advanced threat detection, and automated remediations and fixes, Material allows organizations to operationalize Google Workspace’s security infrastructure without the need for in-house engineering work.   

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