The modern cloud is fast, dynamic, and complex. But legacy security tools can’t keep up. As containers and ephemeral resources constantly change, and access requests surge, security teams are left scrambling. Entitlements pile up, visibility fades, and audits become a nightmare.
StrongDM changes that. Our identity-aware access platform gives Security, IAM, and DevOps teams unified control across all resources—servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud services. No more spreadsheets. No brittle workflows. Just real-time insight and Zero Trust access at cloud speed.
Cloud Speed vs. Security Sprawl
Cloud infrastructure is the engine of modern business, but for security and IAM teams, it’s also the engine of complexity.
As your engineering teams embrace containers, serverless functions, and ephemeral databases, three vectors of complexity are creating a massive, expanding security risk: more identities, more access requests, and an explosion of resources.
This is why legacy security tools fail. They simply cannot keep pace with the velocity and volume of modern cloud environments. The result? Entitlement creep sets in, visibility breaks down, and when the auditor calls, you’re drowning in spreadsheets, trying to answer the foundational question: Who has access to what, when, and why?
Unified Identity Control Plane For The Cloud-Native World
StrongDM is purpose-built to eliminate this gap. We provide a single, identity-aware access layer that governs every connection, from databases and servers to cloud consoles and internal applications.
This isn't about adding another tool; it’s about providing a unified control plane designed for the scale and velocity of the cloud. By sitting above the infrastructure, StrongDM offers security, IAM, and DevOps teams the strategic clarity and control needed to meet compliance demands and secure dynamic environments. We are fundamentally shifting the security posture from manual, reactive operations to automated, proactive control.
Today, we are announcing three foundational capabilities that empower these teams to move from reactive audit panic to proactive control.
What Are We Launching?
This launch focuses on giving you the clarity and control needed to govern your cloud environment at scale.
Entitlement Visibility
First, we are solving the entitlement visibility challenge. What is an entitlement? Simply put, an entitlement is the permission granted to an identity (a human, a service account, or a machine) to perform an action on a resource. When teams move fast, the security challenge isn't just about unmanaged standing access (which causes entitlement sprawl), but also ensuring you have a complete, auditable record for all temporary and Just-in-Time (JIT) access.
Our new Entitlement Visibility feature provides Security and IAM teams with real-time, defensible insights into every single privilege—whether that access is permanent or granted for just five minutes. You get a clear, consolidated view of all entitlements across your environment, allowing you to quickly spot and revoke unused privileges and prove exactly who had access, to what, and for how long. This effectively turns a week-long compliance audit scramble into a few clicks.
Resource Discovery
Next, we are accelerating the on-boarding with Resource Discovery. For Cloud and DevOps teams, the biggest challenge is that infrastructure is constantly changing and resources appear and disappear in seconds across multiple providers. StrongDM automatically scans your AWS, GCP, and Azure accounts to surface all compute, database, and Kubernetes resources, ensuring you can automate security coverage across your entire footprint. This capability closes the security risk gap created by ephemeral infrastructure, making it easy for admins to bring discovered assets under the managed, audited control of StrongDM in minutes, eliminating the friction of manual onboarding.
Just-in-Time Access for Microsoft Cloud
Finally, we are extending Zero Trust access to the Microsoft Cloud with Just-in-Time controls. For IT and Security teams managing complex environments, eliminating standing privileges in the Microsoft ecosystem (Azure, Entra ID, Microsoft 365) has been a persistent risk and operational headache. Our new JIT feature allows engineers and admins to request elevated roles (like Contributor or Global Admin) only when they need them. StrongDM automatically provisions the permission, monitors the activity, and immediately revokes the access once the time expires. This seamlessly replaces error-prone manual group management and high-risk standing access with a single, streamlined, Zero Trust workflow.
From Stalled PAM to Cloud Velocity
These new capabilities fundamentally change the conversation around access security. You are moving from a world defined by manual processes, complex network proxies, and brittle connectors - the Legacy PAM Tax - to a true, software-defined control plane. StrongDM eliminates the high costs and maintenance burdens of maintaining legacy systems, giving you one intelligent platform to manage access across every resource.
The result is a system that not only helps you dramatically reduce risk and gain unrivaled compliance evidence, but also acts as an enabler, ensuring security controls never become the bottleneck to your engineering team's speed.
Ready to see the future of access?
Request a demo of the new features today or learn more about our platform updates.
