2Fifteen Email Protection

2Fifteen Tech Partners with Material Security for email protection.

Material Security approaches email security differently than most companies, providing several tools that work together to provide several layers of protection centered around your email. Email is the #1 threat vector used for cyber attacks, and with the recent explosion of AI tools, attacks are only getting more sophisticated.

In our increasingly digital world, email is acting more like your identity than ever before, making it especially dangerous if compromised. If you request a password reset from a vital source you rely on, chances are it will send an email to you to reset that password. Emails are also frequently used as verification that you own certain items as well. If your email is compromised, attackers can gain access to many other services that are linked to your email.

Email Protection

The first layer of defense is to add a sophisticated tool in front of your email that is dedicated to email security. An email may look completely legitimate to you, but there are often hidden indicators in the header of the email, or in the way an image was generated within an email. There are hundreds of indicators that show emails to be malicious, spoofed, etc. Material can detect and automatically take action on these messages. If a message is suspicious, Material will add a banner to the email to warn people to be cautious. If the message is malicious, it can defang the URLs, preventing malicious URLs from going anywhere in the email.

Identity Protection

Email has become a crucial part of your identity online. It’s not something people always think about, but if someone gains access to your email, they can usually find all sorts of personal information, and usually email is where every other company will send password reset requests to. That means if someone can access your email, they likely can reset your passwords to nearly every other sensitive system that is tied to that account.

Material helps prevent these scenarios by rewriting any email with a password reset or potentially compromising information with an account verification email, where you need to sign in to your identity provider in order to access that specific message. This could be Okta, Google Workspace, or Microsoft 365, adding another layer to protect your sensitive data and logins.

Data Loss Prevention

Have you ever kept old invoices or bank information in your email for a long time? Possibly forever? What about temporary passwords, API keys, PII data, or anything else? Most email clients that sit on your computer do not store the email in an encrypted format, meaning if someone compromised something that is logged in to your email, they have a treasure trove of old emails to go through and see what they can use to gain access to something sensitive you have, leak personal information, or otherwise exploit the information they are able to find.

Do you allow your employees to access their work email using Outlook, Apple Mail, or a 3rd party app like Sparklight, Mimestream, etc? Did you know that those local copies are actual copies of all of those emails? If you terminate an employee you can cut off their current access to data and systems, but if those apps are used on personally owned devices, pulling that information back is nearly impossible.

Material can help find these messages, mark them as sensitive, and can set an “expiration” date on them which will lock them behind an account verification email in order to access the file. This helps protect sensitive information that may be sitting in your email archive ensuring that you have to log in with an active account in order to access it. This also helps reduce the blast radius of potential situations with former employees, as they are no longer able to log in to company owned systems, rendering old copies of emails with sensitive data useless.

Material will automatically classify many kinds of data as sensitive and apply these protections, but we can also work with you on any custom proprietary information to ensure the same protections.