Material Security
Retroactive Gmail/M365 mailbox security, not just inbound filtering
Overview
Material Security protects Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 mailboxes — scanning historical email for exposed sensitive data, detecting account takeover via behavior monitoring, and automating incident response — priced from $4-$6/user/month plus an ATO add-on.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Identity-based threat detection
- Posture management
- Cloud office automation (email/files/config)
- Data classification and governance
- Improper-sharing detection
- Sensitive-content email monitoring
- Anomalous behavior monitoring
- MFA gap detection
- ATO behavior detection
- Message-level compromise containment
- Custom scope
- Volume discounts
- Multi-year contract options
Use cases
What you can produce with Material Security
- Retroactive scan of historical mailbox content for exposed data
- Account-takeover detection via behavior monitoring
- Automated phishing message clustering and remediation
- End-user "report suspicious message" workflow
- Data classification and sharing-risk detection (Advanced tier)
- Coverage: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
- Shared and dedicated (single-tenant) deployment options
ASEAN Perspective
Material Security in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Most email security tools only look at mail as it arrives; Material Security's differentiator is going backward too — scanning years of historical mailbox content for exposed sensitive data and locking down old messages an attacker could otherwise mine after a breach. Combined with account-takeover detection through behavior monitoring and posture management across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, it covers more of the actual attack surface than a standard inbound filter.
Pricing is transparent by category standards: Essentials at $4/user/month, Advanced (adds data classification, sharing detection, sensitive-content monitoring) at $6/user/month, both billed annually plus a Shared Drive size fee, with ATO Resilience as a $3/user add-on or $5 standalone. G2 reviewers consistently rate support and ease of administration highly, with few substantive complaints surfacing in reviews — genuinely rare for enterprise security tooling. Best fit: mid-to-large orgs on Google or Microsoft cloud productivity with an existing security team to act on its findings; assumes that team exists.
What people say
Material Security's G2 reviews lean unusually one-sided for enterprise security software — reviewers describe struggling to name a specific dislike, worth noting precisely because it's uncommon; most security tools draw at least some consistent friction complaints (false positives, alert fatigue, a clunky admin UI). Here the recurring theme is the opposite: ease of use, straightforward setup, and administration that doesn't require a dedicated specialist to run day-to-day.
Specific praise clusters around two features. First, real-time remediation and message clustering — when a phishing campaign hits multiple mailboxes, Material automatically groups the related messages so a security team can act on the whole campaign at once instead of triaging one report at a time. Second, the end-user "report suspicious message" flow, which reviewers describe as simple enough that non-technical staff actually use it — a reporting feature nobody uses doesn't generate the detection signal it's built for.
Reviewers comparing Material against category peers (Abnormal AI is a common comparison point) tend to favor Material specifically on support responsiveness and overall vendor relationship, not just product features — easy to overlook when comparing spec sheets but a factor that shows up repeatedly in head-to-head G2 comparison data.
On the business side, Material has raised $162 million total across multiple rounds, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Snowflake Ventures and Elad Gil — a credible enterprise-security cap table, founded in 2017 and based in Redwood City. Pricing is genuinely public, unusual for this category: Essentials at $4/user/month, Advanced at $6/user/month, both annual, plus a Shared Drive size-based fee and an optional Account Takeover Resilience module at $3/user as an add-on or $5 standalone; Enterprise steps up to custom, volume-discounted contracts.
Net: a well-liked, well-funded product with unusually transparent pricing for the category, and review sentiment that's genuinely positive rather than just absent of loud complaints.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Material Security's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Material Security unless explicitly stated.
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