Access that moves as fast as your team

Every Cloud Team Has More Standing Access Than They Realize

StrongDM delivers cloud-native security with just-in-time access, identity-based access control, and least privilege access across AWS, Kubernetes, databases, servers, and AI agents. No big team required, and nothing changes about how your team already works.

Trusted by cloud-native teams including Chime, Better, Benevity, Betterment, SoFi, and Yext

Access became a DIY setup

Someone wired up SSH keys, a shared vault, and an onboarding script. It works until someone leaves and nobody's sure what they could still reach.

Standing privilege accumulates quietly

Temporary permissions often become privilege creep, increasing cloud security risk and making infrastructure harder to audit.

Audit prep burns weeks

Access lives in five different consoles, so reconstructing who did what after the fact takes days, not minutes.

AI Agents already touch what your team touches

They connect to databases and infrastructure the same way a person would, usually with none of the same oversight.

Why cloud-native teams choose StrongDM

Your Team and AI Agents Keep Working

Native CLI

kubectl

Existing tools

Security Gets Visibility

Every session

Every command

Every resource

Audits Take Minutes

One access layer

Complete audit trail

No standing privilege

Control, monitoring, and a workflow nobody has to fight

Shore up the control you have

Bring developer access, containers, databases, and AI agents under one model, even if you're starting from nothing formal today.

Catch problems while they're happening, not after

Every command is checked against policy in real time. A session that starts clean can still get cut off the moment something breaks policy.

Fits how your team already works

Native CLI, kubectl, and existing DB clients. No agents to install, no new tool for your team to learn, live in hours instead of months.

What's running underneath

JIT Access

Just-in time access control through native CLI, kubectl, & existing database clients

Credentials never exposed

No workflow changes

Runtime Authorization

Policy-based enforcement on every command, not just at sign-in

Complete audit trails

Continuous authorization & session monitoring

AI Agentic Control

Coverage for AI coding assistants, autonomous agents, and workloads

Same broker, same policy

Full audit trail per agent

StrongDM vs traditional cloud access control

Two things usually stand between a cloud-native team and real access governance. Point-solution JIT vendors cover cloud and SaaS entitlements well but stop at the edge of that slice, and your DIY setup feels like enough, until it isn't. Here's the honest comparison.

	DIY Setup	Point-Solution JIT Vendors
Deployment time	Whatever engineering time you can spare, ongoing. Not offered	Fast for the cloud and SaaS entitlements they cover, but servers, Kubernetes, and on-prem databases need separate agents or a certificate authority to reach. Partial / limited	Hours, agentless, no rip-and-replace. Available
Credential exposure	Depends entirely on how it was built. Not offered	Short-lived and scoped to the request. Most hand the credential straight to the requester, though at least one architecture in this class avoids that by design. Partial / limited	Never exposed, brokered at the moment of connection. Available
Policy enforcement	Wherever someone remembered to write a check. Not offered	Authorizes the grant or the connection, then steps back. Blocking a specific action mid-session is rare. Partial / limited	Continuous, evaluated for the life of the session. Available
Standing privilege	Whatever nobody's gotten around to revoking. Not offered	Reduced within the slice of the stack they cover, mainly cloud and SaaS entitlements, not servers, databases, or on-prem infrastructure. Partial / limited	Reduced across your full infrastructure stack, just-in-time by default. Available

Available Partial / limited Not offered

Questions worth answering before someone books a call

What is standing access, and why does it matter?

Standing access is any grant that outlives the reason it was created. Think of the admin role someone handed out during an incident, or the AI agent still reaching a production database long after its task finished. It's usually the first thing an audit or a breach finds.

What is runtime authorization?

Policy checked for the life of a session, not just at sign-in. Every command or query gets evaluated against policy while it's happening, and the session ends immediately if something breaks policy, instead of surfacing in a log after the fact.

Does StrongDM replace my current vault?

No. It connects to Delinea Secret Server, HashiCorp, CyberArk, or whatever vault you already run, and brokers those credentials into live sessions instead of replacing the vault itself.

Does StrongDM work with AWS, Kubernetes, and the rest of a typical cloud stack?

Yes. StrongDM covers AWS, GCP, and Azure, along with Kubernetes and its managed variants like EKS, GKE, and AKS. It also covers major databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB, Linux and Windows servers over SSH and RDP, and internal web apps with no VPN required.

Does StrongDM cover AI Agents, or just human users?

Agents connecting through MCP, whether AI coding assistants or autonomous agents authenticating via service accounts, go through the same broker, policy engine, and audit trail as a person.