Email Security
If Someone Gets Into Your Email, They Can Get Into Everything
Your email is the key to your bank accounts, your cloud storage, your business systems. A password reset goes to your inbox. Account verification goes to your inbox. If someone gets in, they don't just read your messages. They become you.
Material Security takes a different approach to protecting your inbox. Instead of just blocking obvious spam, it adds layers of protection that work together: stopping sophisticated phishing attacks, detecting account takeovers in real-time, and protecting sensitive data sitting in years of archived messages.
Email is the #1 attack vector for breaches, and with AI making phishing emails harder to spot, traditional filters aren't enough. Material is trusted by security teams at companies like Lyft, PagerDuty, DoorDash, and Carta because it works without getting in the way of people doing their jobs.
Stop Threats Before They Reach You
Phishing emails don't look like they used to. AI-generated attacks are getting past traditional spam filters every day.
That email from your CEO asking you to wire money? It might look perfect. The invoice from a vendor you actually use? Could be spoofed. There are hundreds of hidden signals in every email, from header anomalies to how images are encoded, that reveal whether a message is legitimate.
Material analyzes all of them. Suspicious messages get flagged with a warning banner so your team knows to be careful. Malicious links get defanged so even if someone clicks, nothing happens. And when an attack does slip through, Material can pull it back from every inbox it landed in, instantly.
Your Email Is the Key to Everything Else
Password resets, account verification, two-factor codes. They all go to your inbox. Protect the inbox, protect everything.
Think about what happens when you click "Forgot Password" on your bank, your cloud storage, your business systems. A reset link goes straight to your email. If an attacker has access to your inbox, they don't need to guess your passwords. They just reset them.
Material adds a second lock to these sensitive messages. Password resets, account verification emails, anything with potentially compromising information gets wrapped in a verification step. To access the message, you have to re-authenticate through your identity provider, whether that's Okta, Google Workspace, or Microsoft 365. Even if someone is in your inbox, they can't use it to take over your other accounts.
Old Emails Shouldn't Be a Liability
Years of invoices, passwords, API keys, and sensitive data sitting in your archive. If someone gets in, it's all there.
Your inbox has years of history. Bank statements, contracts, temporary passwords someone emailed you three years ago. If an attacker gets access, they don't just see today's messages. They get a searchable archive of everything sensitive you've ever received.
And if your employees use Outlook, Apple Mail, or any desktop email app, those messages are copied locally, often unencrypted. When someone leaves the company, you can revoke their access, but if they used a personal device, those local copies stay with them.
Material finds sensitive content in your email archive and protects it automatically. Messages with passwords, financial data, or PII can be locked behind a verification step or set to expire. Even if someone has old copies, they can't access the content without an active, authenticated session.
Material automatically classifies common sensitive data types, and we can work with you to add custom rules for proprietary information specific to your business.
Want to Talk?
Whether you're worried about phishing, want to protect sensitive data in your email archive, or just want to understand what's actually in your inbox, we can help you figure out what makes sense.