Case Study: MyFitnessPal Improves Email Threat Detection and Data Protection with Material Security

Achieving Alert Budget Fit at MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal, a healthcare company behind a nutrition tracking app serving over 250 million users, needed to strengthen its email security beyond basic inbound phishing detection. The IT and security team, led by Sr Director Allen Cox, wanted better visibility into email risk, sensitive data exposure, account takeover risks, and shadow IT across Google Workspace.

With Material Security, MyFitnessPal implemented a more holistic email security and posture management approach, including phishing detection, sensitive data protection behind MFA, and controls to block unsanctioned app signups. Material Security improved alert quality and reduced employee phishing reports, increased security team efficiency through clustered and automated incident response, and helped the team identify risky account configurations and legacy email client usage.

MyFitnessPal

Allen Cox

Sr Director