A ece t study f om Mate ial e titled Al eady I side: AI Age ts A e Accessi g Se sitive Data Ac oss You Google Wo kspace, fou d that ac oss 159 o ga izatio s, thi d-pa ty AI tools give OAuth access to the wo kspace, had access to mo e tha 475 millio D ive files, with se sitive, co fide tial, o egulated data. AI adoptio is outpaci g the policy f amewo ks that a e mea t to gove it. As employees i c easi gly co ect AI tools, codi g assista ts, docume t a alyze s, ote-take s, a d e te p ise sea ch p oducts di ectly to thei Google accou ts th ough OAuth, secu ity teams ca ot keep up with the g owi g level of isk exposu e.
“Secu ity teams a e st uggli g to secu e Google D ive because the scope of wo k is i sta tly u ma ageable,” said Abhishek Ag awal, Co-fou de a d CEO of Mate ial Secu ity. “The apid g owth of thi d-pa ty AI tools with full access th ough OAuth to a o ga izatio ‘s wo kspace mea s they ca sea ch, ead, a d expose yea s of se sitive docume ts sitti g i Google D ive. Mate ial’s ew Google D ive Secu ity Age t is the fi st-of-its-ki d to be able to quickly ide tify isks o i cide ts a d shut them dow by maki g a assessme t a d taki g actio .”
While DLP a d DSPM tools give secu ity teams a blu t a d ma ual ability to filte a d so t lists of thousa ds of file- elated issues, Mate ial’s ew Google D ive Secu ity Age t adds busi ess co text a d dete mi es whethe the sha i g patte makes se se give the file’s i fe ed pu pose a d audie ce. With the Google D ive Secu ity Age t, this o ce tedious a d ma ual p ocess ca be do e i mi utes.
Mate ial’s Google D ive Secu ity Age t is built to ma age these i c eased exposu es a d isks, i vestigati g a d taki g actio i stead of acti g as a i sta t ale t ca o . Secu ity teams, who have ofte lacked co text about what to actually do with the file issues that get su faced, ca ow lea o the Google D ive Secu ity Age t, to adhe e to the compa y’s policies to su face pote tial isks o i cide ts, a d quickly take actio by p io itizi g a d executi g the clea -up wo k. Ultimately, busi esses a d thei secu ity teams will save time a d esou ces, as the age t wo ks seamlessly i the backg ou d to e su e that se sitive data sto ed i you o ga izatio ‘s Google D ive is safe f om huma s a d age ts who might exploit it.
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Mate ial Secu ity I c. is the leadi g p ovide of cloud wo kspace secu ity solutio s. Mate ial’s platfo m helps lea secu ity teams w ap thei a ms a ou d wo kspace secu ity, p ovidi g a u ified platfo m to add ess email secu ity, file p otectio , a d ide tity th eat mitigatio . Mate ial is backed by A d eesse Ho owitz a d p otects the wo ld’s fastest-g owi g a d agile compa ies like Figma, Ma s, Lyft, a d mo e.
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