Simplify Acquisition Security Challenges

Mergers and acquisitions are complex by nature, but integrating disparate IT environments shouldn't be a security nightmare. Material provides a unified security layer that deploys in minutes, offering immediate visibility and control over newly acquired Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 tenants.

Problem: Inherited risk, unknown posture

Integrating an acquired company into existing SecOps is a race against the clock. Security is often caught between the pressure to move quickly and the risk of the unknown. You inherit an entire environment's risk profile overnight, but gaining a clear understanding of that risk can take months of manual effort.

This challenge creates immediate and significant problems:

• Lack of Visibility: Even with the most thorough due diligence, you often don't know the granular details of what you're inheriting. Are there risky configurations, overly permissive third-party apps, or dormant accounts waiting to be exploited? Answering these questions is a manual, time-consuming process.
• A Ticking Clock: Threat actors actively target companies during M&A, knowing that the transitional period is often chaotic and insecure. The risk builds with every passing day without proper visibility and control.
• Operational Drag: Your security team is forced to juggle multiple admin consoles and disparate toolsets, slowing down everything from incident response to basic policy enforcement. This is exacerbated if the company you’re acquiring is using a different cloud office platform than you do. There is no single source of truth.
• Delayed Integration: Business synergy can’t be fully realized while critical infrastructure like email, file sharing, and access control remains siloed and unsecured. The longer it takes to establish a consistent security baseline, the longer the organization remains at risk.

Solution: A unified security approach for any cloud workspace

Material cuts through the chaos of M&A integration by providing a single, consistent security layer that works across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 tenants. Instead of a multi-month integration project, you get actionable intelligence and control in minutes.

Here’s how Material solves the problem:

• Deploy in minutes, not months: Material’s API-based integration requires no changes to MX records, and can be deployed in well under an hour. You can connect to a newly acquired tenant and begin assessing its posture and protecting its users on day one.
• Immediate posture assessment: Once connected, Material provides an immediate, comprehensive assessment of the new environment. You can instantly see risky configurations, sensitive data exposure, and other vulnerabilities without having to navigate unfamiliar admin consoles.
• A single pane of glass: Manage security for your primary tenant and all acquired tenants from a single, unified interface. This eliminates the need to switch between different tools and consoles, streamlining everything from configuration management to incident investigation.
• Consistent policy enforcement: Apply your organization's security policies and workflows to the new environment instantly. Whether it's locking down sensitive attachments, de-risking compromised accounts, or enforcing multi-factor authentication, you can establish a consistent baseline of security across the entire merged organization.

With Material, you can turn the highest-risk phase of an acquisition into a managed, secure, and efficient process.

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