Case Study: Collective Health strengthens identity and access controls with Material Security

Collective Health Boosts Identity and Access Controls with Identity Protection

Collective Health, a fast-growing healthcare technology company, needed stronger identity and access controls across its many sensitive systems, especially email, which can act as a gateway to other accounts. To better protect PHI and reduce risk from account takeovers and unauthorized access, the team looked for a way to strengthen authentication and improve control over critical services. They chose Material Security and its Identity Protection and email security capabilities.

Material Security helped Collective Health extend MFA to email-based account recovery, add one-click phishing reporting, and automate remediation for suspicious messages. This reduced manual triage, enabled similarity matching to protect users faster, and consolidated incident response with tools like PagerDuty. With Material Security’s single-tenant deployment and infrastructure control, Collective Health also gained better visibility and ownership over its email environment, improving overall security and operational efficiency.

Collective Health

Brad Chivukula

VP of Engineering