Review suggested VIPs

VIP Impersonation occurs when a cyber-threat actor impersonates a prominent employee to obtain sensitive data.

By providing Material a list of VIPs as well as any potential known aliases or alternate display names, you'll enhance protections while also limiting false positives.

How to review and dismiss or accept VIP suggestions

1. Navigate to Explorer > Accounts.
2. A banner displays on the top with our suggestions. Click Review.
3. From the summary, accept or dismiss suggestions. Each VIP Designation has a few fields:

   1. Email: the account's primary email address
   2. Aliases: known alternate email addresses (e.g. a personal email) if the VIP frequently uses this to send email to the corporate environment. Separate aliases with a comma then a space: Alias1, Alias2 . Any aliases added are exempted from Material’s VIP Impersonation detections.
   3. Display name variants: variations of the user's display name, which attacker may attempt to impersonate. Material automatically suggests some that make sense. (E.g. Lee Taylor may be impersonated by an attacker with a display name of Taylor, Lee).

Suggested VIPs review screen

To assign VIP to individual accounts or view all your existing VIPs, review the VIP Impersonation guide.