Cloud Workspace
Welcome to Material Security’s Cloud Workspace Security Resources —your central hub for mastering cloud account protection solutions, identity security posture management, and email security in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments.
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7 Secure Email Gateway Problems Costly in 2025
Secure email gateways create costly problems in 2025 because they miss identity-driven and post-delivery threats, add operational friction and false positives, and duplicate capabilities that cloud-native platforms already provide, pushing many teams to favor in-tenant, integrated email security instead.
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Google Workspace Security Features: What to Turn On First (2025)
With limited time and attention, the best Google Workspace features to turn on first in 2025 are strong MFA, secure default sharing, key admin and API protections, and high-signal alerting around risky sign-ins and high-value accounts.
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Google Workspace Security Gaps Hackers Exploit—and How to Patch Them Today
Attackers exploit common Google Workspace security gaps like weak MFA, legacy access, overshared data, and unmonitored high-value accounts; you can patch these quickly by tightening core settings, reducing exposure, and adding targeted detection and response.
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Human Error in Google Drive: The Hidden Risks—and How to Design Them Out
Most serious Google Drive incidents stem from human error—oversharing, mislabeling, and accidental uploads—so reducing risk means designing safer defaults, simpler sharing options, and guardrails that catch mistakes before data leaves the organization.
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Secure Email Gateway (SEG) in 2025: What It Does—and Where It Struggles
The secure email gateway (SEG) market is experiencing rapid growth due to increasing cyber threats, but traditional SEGs struggle with modern attacks like zero-day threats and social engineering. API-based solutions offer advanced, post-delivery protection and are becoming the preferred approach for comprehensive email security.
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Secure Email Gateway vs. Cloud-Native: Which Wins?
Secure email gateways and cloud-native protections each have strengths, but in modern Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environments, in-tenant, cloud-native controls are better positioned to see identity-driven threats and post-delivery risk.
Stop Gmail Breaches: How to Get the Most from Google Workspace
Stopping Gmail breaches means turning on the right Google Workspace security features, tightening identity and access, and adding visibility and response around high-risk mailboxes so you can detect and contain compromise quickly.
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Identity Security Posture Management Strategies for Cloud Workspaces
Identity security posture management for cloud workspaces means continuously inventorying accounts, access, configurations, and risky behaviors, then systematically reducing exposure by fixing misconfigurations, trimming privilege, and hardening high-value identities.
How Dormant Accounts Expand Your Cloud Workspace Attack Surface
Dormant and infrequently used accounts quietly expand your cloud workspace attack surface because they retain access and data without day-to-day oversight; managing this risk means regularly identifying, reviewing, and deprovisioning accounts that no longer need access.
Why Least Privilege Policies Fail at Scale and How to Fix Them
Least privilege policies often fail at scale because they are static, hard to maintain, and disconnected from how people actually work; fixing them requires continuous visibility into real usage, practical access tiers, and workflows that make right-sizing access the default.
Why Your Secure Email Gateway Is Failing Right Now
Secure email gateways are failing today because they sit outside your cloud workspace, can’t see internal or post-delivery threats, and weren’t built for identity-driven attacks, leaving critical gaps that must be filled by in-tenant, identity-aware protections.
How Attackers Mimic Legitimate Users After Account Takeovers
After taking over an account, attackers mimic legitimate users by replaying normal workflows and communication patterns, so detecting them requires looking for subtle anomalies in timing, recipients, data access, and device or location rather than obvious malware indicators.
Quickly Fix Broken DLP Data Classification
Fixing broken DLP and data classification starts with understanding where labels and rules diverge from reality, then simplifying categories, improving automation, and focusing on the data and users that actually drive most of your risk.
Why MFA Fatigue Attacks Slip Past Two-Factor Security
MFA fatigue attacks bypass two-factor security by bombarding users with prompts until they approve one, so defending against them requires phishing-resistant factors, better prompt design, and detections that flag abnormal approval patterns.
How Shadow Access Defies Controls in Cloud Identity Management
Shadow access arises when users gain effective permissions outside formal reviews, through group nesting, app grants, or shared accounts, undermining your identity controls; reducing it requires better visibility into effective access and stricter governance around sharing and apps.
How Phishing Emails Outsmart Users and Bypass Detection
Modern phishing emails outsmart users and bypass detection by abusing trusted brands, compromised accounts, and realistic language, so defenses must combine training with identity-aware controls and post-delivery detection, not just pre-delivery filtering.
Smart Access Tiering Strategies to Cut Exposure Risks Fast
Smart access tiering reduces exposure quickly by grouping users and resources into a few well-defined risk tiers, then applying stronger controls and monitoring to high-risk tiers while keeping day-to-day access simple for everyone else.
Mastering Email Retention Policy to Protect Sensitive Data
If your organization treats its email server like a bottomless filing cabinet, you're not alone. But this approach introduces serious risks. The core problem is that unmanaged data creates a massive, invisible attack surface.
A Pragmatic Guide to Google Account Takeover Protection
Companies need Google account takeover protection to defend against a range of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats that target user identities and sensitive data. Even if your organization already uses Google Workspace’s built-in security features, layering additional protection is essential due to the evolving threat landscape and the high stakes involved in email and identity compromise.
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Account Takeover Attacks: How to Shield Your Cloud Workspace
Account takeover attacks in cloud workspaces exploit compromised identities, weak controls, and blind spots after login; the most effective defense is to assume accounts will be breached and layer continuous monitoring, risky-behavior detection, strong MFA, and fast, automated response across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
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Role Based Access Vs Attribute Based Access
Role-based access control (RBAC) assigns permissions based on fixed job roles, while attribute-based access control (ABAC) evaluates rich context like user, device, data sensitivity, and risk signals; most modern cloud environments use RBAC as a baseline and layer ABAC-style policies to reduce privilege creep and exposure.
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Best Methods for Preventing and Containing Account Takeovers
The best way to prevent and contain account takeovers is to combine phishing-resistant authentication, least-privilege access, and behavioral detection with playbooks that quickly isolate risky sessions, revoke tokens, and roll back malicious changes across your cloud workspace.
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Lock Down Your Workspace: Identity Access Management Best Practices That Actually Work
Locking down identity and access in a cloud workspace means treating the identity provider as your new perimeter, standardizing on strong MFA, tightening default settings, minimizing standing privilege, and continuously reviewing risky accounts, shared mailboxes, and high-value groups.
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5 Ways Smart Companies Shield Against Identity Attacks Now
Smart companies shield against identity attacks by hardening authentication, reducing exposed attack surface, monitoring risky sign-ins and behavior, training users where it matters, and using automation to take action on compromised accounts in minutes instead of days.
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10 DLP Blind Spots Putting Your Cloud Data at Risk Today
Modern data protection for cloud workspaces goes beyond keyword-based DLP, combining context, identity, and behavior to understand how sensitive data is used, detect risky exposure across email and drive, and enable precise, low-friction remediation.
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DLP Evolved: Modern Data Protection for Cloud Workspaces
Modern data protection for cloud workspaces goes beyond keyword-based DLP, combining context, identity, and behavior to understand how sensitive data is used, detect risky exposure across email and drive, and enable precise, low-friction remediation.
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Google DLP Secrets: Unlocking Advanced Data Protection
Google’s native DLP has powerful capabilities, but they only pay off when you tune detectors, align policies to real data flows, and pair Workspace DLP with better visibility and response so you can act quickly on risky findings instead of drowning in noise.
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How Secure is Google Drive?
Google Drive provides strong baseline security for storage and sharing, but real risk comes from how people configure sharing, connect third-party apps, and sync data; to keep Drive secure you must pair native controls with guardrails against human error and overexposure.
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Beyond Basic Google DLP: Smart Tricks for Bulletproof Data Security
Basic Google DLP catches obvious patterns, but bulletproof data security in Workspace requires smarter tricks like custom detectors, risk-based policies, workflow integration, and context-aware exceptions that focus your efforts on genuinely dangerous exposures.