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5 Database Management Challenges to Know in 2024

5 Database Management Challenges to Know in 2024

Apart from its business functions, a database’s core functions are integrating, separating, controlling, accessing, and protecting data. As such,
Event: Devising Cloud Strategies and Solutions

Event: Devising Cloud Strategies and Solutions

Attend this MegaCast for a ton of new ideas on how to use the cloud to advance your long-range IT goals. What are the ways that software-as-a-service
What StrongDMers are Cooking Up
What StrongDMers are Cooking Up
Our strongDM team has their game day faces on and are ready to share some of their top Super Bowl food draft picks! Check out these mouth watering recipes.
Meet strongDM | Brad Schaider
Meet strongDM | Brad Schaider
Meet Brad, IT Manager at strongDM whose early career included technical and artistic work on blockbuster movie trailers for Disney, Marvel, and more.
Answering Auditors’ Questions in a SOC 2 Review
Answering Auditors’ Questions in a SOC 2 Review
We recently completed our own SOC 2 audit, so we thought we’d review how we dogfooded our own product. We’ll share tips and tricks to make the audit process a little easier, whether you’re wrapping up your own or about to dive into the coming year’s audit. Here are the questions auditors asked us during our own SOC 2 audit and the commands and strongDM tooling we used to gather the evidence they requested.
Cloud-Native Data Protection Panel Recap
Cloud-Native Data Protection Panel Recap
Cloud environments present new challenges for data protection as technological innovation, flexibility, and abstraction change the way we copy, store, and handle data. That’s why Justin McCarthy, CTO and co-founder of strongDM, recently sat down with Mike Vizard and a panel of technology experts. ...
Is the Infrastructure Access Security Gap Putting You at Risk?
Is the Infrastructure Access Security Gap Putting You at Risk?
The common element in all these data breaches is access control. As one security expert noted from the MyFitnessPal breach, “trust but verify” isn’t enough when data is stored in the cloud and accessed from locations outside a company’s secured internal network. The infrastructure access security gap has only expanded with the rise of remote work and increased numbers of connected systems.
StrongDM kicks it into overdrive
StrongDM kicks it into overdrive
With the release of tighter integrations with Okta and Azure AD (or any SCIM-based directory service for that matter), you now have the ability to manage just-in-time, least-privilege access to your critical infrastructure right from your preferred identity provider (IdP), dramatically reducing the time needed to approve requests and grant access.
Meet strongDM | Abdul Siddiqui
Meet strongDM | Abdul Siddiqui
Abdul Siddiqui, Customer Success Manager at strongDM, tells us about a trip to Pakistan and the door-opening power of judicious quiet.
Infrastructure Access | Glossary of Terms
Infrastructure Access | Glossary of Terms
The way companies look at infrastructure access is changing. With so many data sources and types of information, ever-changing regulatory requirements, and the need to scale up or down quickly, even the terms we use to describe infrastructure have changed.To help you keep up with it all, this glossary contains definitions for infrastructure access terms you’ll hear as you work to manage access for your organization.
Welcome to the Year of Access
Welcome to the Year of Access
strongDM asked 600 DevOps pros about the state of infrastructure access today. Their response? It’s out of control. Here’s an overview of our results.
Managing Access to Ephemeral Infrastructure At Scale
Managing Access to Ephemeral Infrastructure At Scale
Managing a static fleet of strongDM servers is dead simple. You create the server in the strongDM console, place the public key file on the box, and it’s done! This scales really well for small deployments, but as your fleet grows, the burden of manual tasks grows with it.
StrongDM app UI showing available infrastructure resources
Connect your first server or database, without any agents, in 5 minutes.