Stop Token-Based Persistence and Data Exfiltration

The industry has spent decades defending the front door of the cloud workspace. We have MFA, hardware keys, and conditional access policies to ensure that the person logging in is who they say they are. We have advanced inbound threat protection to stop increasingly-sophisticated phishing attacks. But once an attacker secures an OAuth token—either through a clever phishing lure or by compromising a user's session—the front door becomes irrelevant. They don't need to log in again. They have a persistent, "authorized" API connection that bypasses your entire security stack.

Problem: The visibility gap in OAuth attacks

Most security tools treat a valid OAuth token as a permanent green light. If an application is "verified" by Google and "authorized" by a user, native logs and legacy SSPMs rarely give it a second look. This creates a massive blind spot where an attacker can use a legitimate-looking app to quietly map your directory, scrape sensitive Gmail threads, or exfiltrate files from Google Drive.

Because these actions happen via API rather than a traditional login, they don’t trigger "unusual location" alerts or MFA prompts. By the time a manual audit catches the anomaly, the data is already gone. You aren't dealing with a login problem; you're dealing with a persistent machine identity that has gone rogue.

Solution: AI  for active behavioral defense of the cloud workspace

Material’s OAuth Apps AI Agent moves beyond static "allow lists" and post-compromise summaries to monitor what your integrated apps are actually doing in real-time. The agent then stops critical threats instantly or flags when mission-critical OAuth apps appear to be compromised so a human can step in and review. Material provides the active defense layer that ensures a stolen token doesn't turn into a catastrophic breach.

• Baseline and Detect: Material understands the standard operating patterns of your workspace. If a "Project Management" tool suddenly starts using User-Agent strings associated with reconnaissance tools like Trufflehog or starts listing thousands of messages without reading them, Material flags the behavior instantly.
• Real-Time Revocation: The platform doesn’t just report on the problem; it solves it. Material can programmatically revoke OAuth tokens the moment a high-risk behavioral threshold is crossed, severing the attacker's persistence in seconds.
• Infrastructure-Level Context: Unlike email-only security tools, Material integrates directly with Google Workspace event streams. We see the "schema dumping" and bulk enumeration tactics that happen after the click, giving you a bodyguard inside the workspace rather than just a bouncer at the door.

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