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StrongDM Overview

What is StrongDM?

StrongDM is the leader in Zero Trust PAM. We are a policy-based platform that enables precise control over privileged actions and grants secure, compliant, frustration-free access to all critical infrastructure. End users enjoy fast, intuitive, and auditable access to the resources they need, and administrators leverage simplified workflows to enhance security and compliance postures.

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strongDM’s People-First Access platform gives businesses confidence in their access and audit controls at scale. It combines authentication, authorization, networking, and observability to simplify workflows and make it easier for technical staff to access the tools they need without compromising security and compliance requirements.


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strongDM
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Year Founded
2015
HQ Location
Burlingame, California
Twitter
@strongdm
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143 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

StrongDM is the leader in Zero Trust PAM. We are a policy-based platform that enables precise control over privileged actions and grants secure, compliant, frustration-free access to all critical infrastructure.Can your PAM…1) Make dynamic access decisions based on contextual elements like location and device trust?
) Enable continuous authorization and embrace Zero Trust access?3) Enforce fine-grained access control and require user justification + MFA for actions on resources?4) Craft policies against resources, ensuring enhanced security measures? If it can't... Isn't it time that it does? 🤔StrongDM seamlessly and securely integrates with every environment and protocol your team needs, with responsive
4/7 support. Try it today.


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Simone R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Vendor's Commitment To Customer Success Stands Out"
- ease of operation and setup - full feature set - constantly improving
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Taddeo Riccardo F.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"I think StrongDM is a great tool to improve people's operations"
I like the secure connection management and the ability to clearly view logs.
Victor A.
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Victor A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Excellent Customer Support Sets StrongDM Apart"
The support team is highly responsive, knowledgeable, and always willing to go the extra mile to help us resolve any issues or questions we have. T...
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StrongDM Demo - Easily monitor end-users from a comprehensive dashboard.
View anyone at your company at any time from a single control plane.
StrongDM Demo - Simplify your access!
StrongDM allows you to navigate access with ease.
StrongDM Demo - Easily integrated with your entire stack!
StrongDM makes integrating with your stack a walk in the park.
StrongDM Demo - Audit any user session, at any time.
Easily monitor and audit any user session whenever you like.
StrongDM Demo - Grant or revoke access instantly!
Clearly grant or revoke access to any systems in your stack in seconds.
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Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

It is an easy to use tool. Employees find it easy to use. Customer support has responded very fast. Easy IAM feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

The new ui update. I prefer to have a dropdown of all our sdm resources rather than a popup. Also the popup always opens behind my browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Instead of a VPN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seyamak S.
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Senior Devops Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Auditing features are very clear. It is also easy to implement the product once you read about it in the document section. The Customer support is superb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

Not much to dislike. There are many features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps identify who has logged into our systems and what commands they use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Very helpful support. They are quick to reply, friendly, and understanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

It's extra friction getting access to the database. However, its purpose is to add an extra layer of security, so it's serving its purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since our company works remotely, security is very important. Having StrongDM does help not put all of the security responsible on the individual user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Purchasing StrongDM is as easy as implementing it. Transparent pricing and ease of purchase makes this more appealing than all other "enterprise" PAM out there. -- It does access control and logging while allowing our developers to use their own favorite tools. Something that can't be said for all other PAMs we have explored.

We requested a minor feature to make StrongDM work in our envrionment. We waited about a month or so to get this feature shipped! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

A more granular permission system & connectivity configuration would be nice. Low-level error messages should be sent to StrongDM instead of forcing sysadmins to SSH into relays. Advanced log (e.g. ship logs to S3) costs extra. Additional scripting is required to get everything archived in S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need PAM. We need IAM. But our developers need privileged access using their own favorite tool. Yes, we are more productive and are more secure thanks to StrongDM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

StrongDM provides a complete platform for managing access to infrastructure of all types. More traditional IT as well as modern cloud platforms such as AWS and Kubernetes. It integrates with identity systems and supports SCIM so you can continue to manage access controls in your existing IdP platforms.

Their customer support is very responsive even off hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

There are a few limitations in the UI for viewing access assignments from a user to a specific resource. Roles are used to assign resources to users but when you view a user, you can't see the resources they have, only the roles. It requires some CLI work to get the end to end picture. For this reason it's important to avoid using a lot of different roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

We cannot give users passwords to systems and must maintain separation of duties. This product allows us to give our developers access to databses without managing individual credentials on every databsae. We have over 50 databsaes and hundreds of users. We aren't a huge company with a dedicated team to manage access requests. This product lets us easily manage access.

The other huge benefit is auditing. We are audited annually and this product gives us an audit trail of who accessed what resource and in some cases, what they executed against a particular resource (e.g. SQL, Shell commands)

Lastly, we have a lot of non-technical people who have to access databases to run queries. The Windows client is very simply to use for our non-technical people. No CLI required, just view list of resources and "connect" as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

shreyans b.
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Software Engineer E2
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Centralized Access Control

Audit Trails and Monitoring

Simplified Onboarding and Offboarding

Secure Access

Integration with Various Data Stores

Reports Library Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

Dependency on Internet Connection

Learning Curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reports library is very use full which is new feature of strongdm team has enhanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chakon P.
CP
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Easy deployment. Flexible platform compatible with multiple platforms such as cloud, Infrastructure Network Website, and Servers. StrongDM deployment is far easier compared to the competitor in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

There some a lot of limitations on the platform, but the easy deployment made it good for DAM & PAM platform. StrongDM will be better if they have some audit user type and role based access control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Control the user and auditing what they using the resource and our assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Constant engagement with the product, engineers are thrilled at the ease of the tool. Onboarding has become much easier with our engineering team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

The UI in the app can be challenging at first, but usage is the key to understanding the products' ins and outs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company was using outdated technology and paying for another vendor to provide access control to our resources. We were able to decommission those tools in trade for strongdm, which ended up having so much more benefit-wise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Modern and simple design. Working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

Unfortunately I encountered a small bug that caused the same device to be registered twice for MFA breaking MFA entirely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accessing protected infrastructure of a customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about StrongDM?

Provides a way to give access to engineers without the messy password, vpn etc

Provides a way to secure the infra & have audit trail on who does what

Provides options to use workflows for seamless integration via Slack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrongDM?

Would love to see more of the workflow features be part of the service, not add ones maintained by customers

Would love to get more granular access where we can audit SQL queries that are run per engineer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrongDM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to provide engineers a secure & compliant way to access data without sharing passwords or network loopholes - definitely improves productivity in resolving issues seen by customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.