Cloud Access Broker · acquired by 1Password (June 2026)
Apono decides at the door. StrongDM stays for the whole session.
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Every platform on this page will tell you it kills standing privilege. The real test is what happens after access is granted, and whether the platform is still watching when it counts.
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Cloud Access Broker · acquired by 1Password (June 2026)
Apono decides at the door. StrongDM stays for the whole session.
Read the comparison →Certificate-Based Infrastructure Access
Same destination in a few places. A meaningfully different road once you are actually in a session.
Read the comparison →Secrets Management & Vaultless PAM
Akeyless closes the door on standing secrets. StrongDM stays in the room after it closes.
Comparison in progress.
Cloud Access Broker
A newer entrant building runtime PAM around agentless, ephemeral access for people, AI agents, and machine identities. We’re still building this comparison.
Comparison in progress.
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The most meaningful endorsements come from our customers
Before StrongDM it would take up to a week to get someone provisioned. With StrongDM we can now do that in minutes.
Ali Khan
CISO, Better
We used StrongDM to instantly deliver results to our auditors, which really simplified the SOC 2 process.
Jon Hyman
Co-Founder & CTO, Braze
After StrongDM, we were able to cut their VPN access, so they didn’t have that insecure access to the entire private network.
Dave Anderson
Director of InfoSec, Greenhouse Software
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We pulled the old pages down rather than leave outdated comparisons live. For a detailed comparison against CyberArk or BeyondTrust, visit the Delinea site.