Deployment Guides

Welcome to Material Security!

These guides are your starting point for understanding and deploying Material in your environment. Because adopting Material spans both technical setup and ongoing operational use, we recommend that your IT team and intended admins work through parts of these guides together. This shared understanding helps ensure a smooth deployment and a more effective long-term security program.

Your First 30 Days

In your first 30 days, you will:

• Connect your tenant so Material can begin detecting and displaying issues right away
• Customize your setup including branding
• Learn to navigate Material
• Automate remediation and response — so Material can take action for you
• Communicate with your org about upcoming changes

Rollout Timeline

How fast you fully deploy is a preference. It's possible to complete most of these guides in one session, however we recommend you consider a few things when choosing how to plan your rollout:

• 👥 Rollout groups: Do you want to rollout to everyone at once or take volunteers and test your workflow with a group?
• ⚙️ Features: Do you want to configure and enable all features at once or start with one at a time?
• 📢 Communication: Will you communicate with your users about everything at once or a feature at a time? For example, how far ahead of implementing a speedbump response do you want your users to be aware that it's coming? They'll need time to adjust to the new workflow and they need to know how to work with it. We have templates you can use to help guide you through this.
• 📝 Internal Change Management Processes: Are there any internal processes you need to consider when planning your deployment timeline?

All of these considerations can help you design your rollout process and timeline so you can stay on track and inform your stakeholders.

We'll make recommendations along the way — but you can always tweak these to your needs.