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Infrastructure Access Management 101: Tracking and Managing

When it comes to Access Management, taking inventory of your systems is just one of the tasks you need to tackle. Watch the course on Access Roles &

5 Database Management Challenges to Know in 2025

Apart from its business functions, a database’s core functions are integrating, separating, controlling, accessing, and protecting data. As such,

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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 could replace some on-premises infrastructure? How could a switch to modern applications supercharge an area of your business? Where could an expansion of infrastructure-as-a-service usage reduce your overall costs or dramatically improve your capacity and capability?

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.

IT Onboarding Checklist: 2025 Technical Staff Onboarding

Your guide to onboarding technical hires in 2022. Boost retention, engagement, and productivity with this new employee onboarding checklist.

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

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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.

Automating Database Credentialing Guide for 2025

Database sprawl is a lot like expanding into the suburbs: your house may be empty at first, but before you know it, you’re having to stuff things into your attic.

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Infrastructure Access Management 101: Tracking and Managing

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