Stop Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Vendor Email Compromise (VEC)

Material Security provides a robust defense against the most advanced email threats, including Business Email Compromise (BEC), Vendor Email Compromise (VEC), and other highly targeted phishing campaigns. By leveraging deep context from the entire cloud workspace, our platform detects and stops attacks that legacy systems and native platform controls miss, all while automating and simplifying the remediation process.

Problem: Subtle signs of attacks are hard to detect 

Threat actors are continuously evolving their tactics to bypass conventional email security, with the specific goal of taking over an email account to use in further fraud. BEC and VEC are especially dangerous types of attacks because they allow an attacker to slip into the flow of everyday business, masquerading as a legitimate business contact. Bad actors have shifted from brute-force attacks to more subtle and insidious methods that are difficult for both employees and traditional security tools to detect.

This new wave of attacks creates several critical challenges:

• Evasive by Design: Modern attacks often lack the obvious indicators that traditional security tools rely on, like malicious links or attachments. Instead, they use social engineering, impersonation, and conversation hijacking to build trust and deceive employees.
• Limitations of Native Tools: While Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace have made significant strides in their security offerings, they can still be blind to low-volume, multi-touch attacks that look like legitimate business conversations.
• Time-Consuming Investigations: When a suspicious email is reported, security teams are forced to spend valuable time on manual investigations, piecing together context from disparate logs and systems to determine the risk. This process doesn't scale and often leaves organizations exposed for too long.
• A Cascade of Account Takeovers: A single compromised account that’s fallen victim to BEC or VEC can be a launchpad for multiple devastating attacks, allowing threat actors to send convincing fraudulent messages from a trusted source, access sensitive data, and expand their foothold within the organization.

Solution: Automatically defend against BEC and VEC 

Material Security offers a fundamentally different approach to email security, one that’s built for the realities of the modern threat landscape. We provide a dynamic and adaptive defense that hardens your cloud office against even the most sophisticated attacks.

• See what others can't: Material’s platform analyzes a wealth of signals across your entire cloud environment—not just the content of a single email. This deep visibility allows us to detect subtle anomalies and suspicious patterns that are invisible to other tools, providing early and accurate detection of threats like BEC and VEC.
• Automate and accelerate threat response: When a threat is detected, Material can take immediate and precise action. Our automated workflows can be configured to do everything from quarantining suspicious messages to "speedbumping" risky links and attachments with an interstitial that requires user acknowledgment, giving your security team time to investigate without disrupting workflows.
• Protect data at rest: Material can automatically find and protect your most sensitive data, both in mailboxes and in files. By requiring an additional layer of authentication (like MFA) to access sensitive content, we can prevent a compromised account from turning into a catastrophic data breach.
• Turn user reports into automated defense: Material automates the triage and remediation of user-reported phishing emails, transforming a time-consuming manual process into a powerful, automated defense mechanism. A single user report can trigger a system-wide remediation, neutralizing a threat across the entire organization in minutes.