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Material Security Reviews & Product Details

Material Security is an automated detection and response toolkit for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, combining email security, data security, identity protection, and configuration management in a single platform. Material streamlines SecOps by unifying detections and automating remediations across your cloud workspace in one platform that gives you unprecedented visibility and control. Material stops sophisticated attacks, secures sensitive data in files and mailboxes, detects and contains account takeovers, and reduces risk across your environment. Your cloud workspace isn’t just another app. It's critical infrastructure - home to your people, content, and communications — and requires dedicated protection. Material was founded in response to persistent, sophisticated attacks that continue to demonstrate that disparate point solutions for inbound attacks, compromised accounts, and leakage of sensitive content are insufficient to secure against the threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences inherent to the productivity suite. We are backed by Andreesen Horowitz and protect the world’s fastest-growing and agile companies like Figma, Mars, DoorDash, Lyft, MassMutual and more. Learn more at https://material.security/

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Material Security

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Product Description

Email is an essential repository of sensitive content, the key to countless accounts, and the most ubiquitous business application. When attackers have multiple ways in, blocking messages is no longer enough. Material protects accounts even after they’re compromised or harmful messages get through.

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Material Essentials

$3.00

1 Per user/month Per Year

Material Advanced

$6.00

1 Per user/month Per Year

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Material Security Media

Spend your detection engineering budget elsewhere. Material runs on auto-pilot to remediate sophisticated email attacks that bypass traditional controls—without disrupting operations or wasting resources managing rulesets. It also automates user report triage with AI-powered investigation and res...

Understand how sensitive data is exposed—and reduce the risk. Material detects sensitive content in email and files and includes tools to automatically remediate excessive permissions and inappropriate sharing.

Material Security Demo - Identity Threat Detection

Material detects suspected account takeovers and limits their impact by securing sensitive data, reducing credential sprawl, closing MFA gaps, and more.

Material Security Demo - Posture Management

Find and fix risky settings across accounts, groups, and tenants. Material proactively reduces the attack surface with continuous visibility and risk prioritization.

Material Security Reviews (20)

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Thomas B.

Vice President, Information Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/31/2023

"Low effort way to sidestep risk in multiple areas..."

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

I like that Material Security can provide real-time remediation for phishing attempts and helps find and cluster similar messages across the organization automatically. This makes it easier for the security team to quickly and efficiently protect the organization without manually conducting investigations. Additionally, the "report suspicious message" feature is simple for users to understand and use, which helps to empower them to help protect the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

I cannot think of any specific dislikes for Material Security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Material Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Material Security is solving the problem of time-consuming and manual processes for addressing phishing attempts and protecting sensitive data in employee inboxes. The security team can quickly and efficiently protect the organization by providing real-time remediation and automatic clustering without needing to conduct investigations manually. Additionally, the "report suspicious message" feature is simple for users to understand and use, which helps to empower them to help protect the organization. Overall, Material Security helps to save time and resources for the security team and makes the organization more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erik W.

Board Member - CSA Detroit Chapter - President

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/7/2024

"Protecting the Productivity Suite"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

Material is much more than another email protection tool. They empower organizations to gain visibility into and protect an expanding footprint across the major productivity suite providers. This gives us the power we need to expedite spotting and addressing evolving risks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

Nothing, the Material Security team has done an exceptional job executing on our feedback and requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/10/2025

"Strong, Reliable Security Solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

Material Security provides solid protection with easy-to-use features that ensure peace of mind.

The intuitive interface and seamless integration with existing systems make Material Security incredibly user-friendly. The robust protection it offers against phishing and account hijacking is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

The platform’s initial setup can be a bit overwhelming for users who aren’t very tech-savvy. Additionally, some advanced features require additional configuration that might not be as intuitive for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Material Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us mitigate the risk of security breaches, ensuring compliance with industry standards for data protection. By preventing unauthorized access, it protects both our internal communications and our client data, reducing the potential for financial losses or reputational damage. Additionally, the solution scales with our business, keeping us secure as we grow without requiring significant resources or time to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Callie C.

Global SOC/Threat Operations Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Remarkably useful to Analysts and Leaders"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

I like the ability to see the actions users have taken on the emails as well as the metric visuals make it easy to get buy in and understanding from leadership on current state. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

The ticketing dashboard needs work and the visuals should be interactive to click on it to get more information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/10/2024

"No Competition"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

They treat Google Workspace as a first-party partner. The tools don't just integrate "good enough" to sell the product as an afterthought like most products in this category.

The support is second-to-none. And there really isn't anything else out there that matches the capability of this product. There may be some teething issues for very large Enterprise orgs, but for anyone under 5000 employees - this is a no-brainer.

I use it every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

In some cases features are released not as polished as I'd like, but to be honest - they iterate so fast on the UX and the product itself, that really hasn't been a major concern of mine.

The other thing I noticed when comparing them to other vendors is sometimes the configuration side could be a bit better explained. However for most folks who've configured similar products, this also isn't a major concern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Material Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

There is a mammoth amount of DLP tools out there, none really address the Google product suite all that well. Google's own controls leave a lot to be desired, and applying common-sense workflows on top of it really has made it so much easier to administrate. I'd pretty much consider Material a mandatory product for any Enterprise serious about security in their Google Workspace environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erick Vincent Steve G.

IT Support I

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/21/2024

"Modern Security with Material Security"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

What I like about Material Scurity is its focus on post compromise data protection, contextual security measures, and seamless integration with cloud platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

I really like everything about Material Security, it would be more versatile if the focus were not just on cloud-based platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul I.

Principal, Application Security Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/5/2024

"Looking at Email Security differently"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

I like the "speedbump" technology that slows the spread of attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

The Data Protection with 2FA/MFA is great as it can prevent further leaks if a bad actor were to get a hold of an email account. However, this restriction comes at a cost where it is a bit more difficult to filter historical emails for messages that you want to bring up. As usual with Security, it is a trade off between security and usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Giovanni S.

IT Manager

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/19/2023

"Material Security has been a life changer!"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

I love how in one package I am able to defend our entire email environment in our company. I am able to secure the inboxes, able to secure the accounts being taken over and even securing any data from leaking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

I hate that the modules were renamed, I understand branding changes with a growing company but I loved the name of the modules before. Account Take Over, Phishing Herd Immunity, and Leak prevention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

marenyane m.

Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/29/2023

"Material Security is the best data protection tool for your information"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

I like the fact that it is easy to use

I like the fact that you can protect all information on the Microsoft platform

It blocks spam from unwanted sites or

I like the fact that you become in control of your data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

I don't think so far there is one thing to dislike about it. But maybe because it is a paid service. But besides that, I don't see any problem because the internet is full of phishers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim H.

Directory, Identity Governance and Administration

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/1/2023

"Material Security, is a no-brainer"

5/5

What do you like best about Material Security?

Material Security address DLP at rest in the user's mailbox by protecting the specific content by MFA policy after aging rules. This addresses your users who treat their mailbox like a file plan. If the mailbox is compromised, the sensitive data is not. The mailbox owner can recover the data by providing their assigned MFA method if they need the content. Moreover, this gives leaders a metric to fine-tune mailbox retention policies because they can see how often aged content is or is not accessed. Additionally, the product protects against account takeovers; the SaaS or Vendor unique accounts the employees have established with third parties are not bound to the company SSO. Should the employee's mailbox be compromised, the bad actor must have the employee's assigned MFA token to see a password change request from a third party. Again while the user mailbox may have been compromised, the sensitive content has not been exposed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Security?

The fine-grain reporting on mailboxes based on keywords could be improved so it is less interactive, and more results are ready for download. Currently, you must flip through multiple pages and cannot download a final report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Material Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Four key business problems: Are we protecting sensitive data at rest in the user's mailbox? Yes: this is accomplished by built-in DLP policies that are applied to all users or users with access to a specific content type. Are we preventing account takeovers if a user's mailbox is compromised? Yes: while a bad actor could request password changes, the verification email the user receives is protected by MFA. Lastly, are we provided reports and insights that can be used to tune policies and educate users? Yes: each enabled rule in Material Security provides detailed insights into effectiveness over time, that is, 30, 90, and all time. There is a fourth benefit less realized, which is how historical messages are addressed. When a policy is established and applied to a group of users, the policy addresses all new messages; however, it also, within a few hours, reviews all historical messages in the user's mailbox and protects those messages based on the policy, so it rolling forward and backward in the user's mailbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.