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Day Two Cloud 134: Simplifying Infrastructure Access With StrongDM

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Justin McCarthy

Co-founder / CTO

StrongDM

Last updated on:

June 24, 2025

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Today’s Day Two Cloud is a sponsored episode with StrongDM. StrongDM focuses on infrastructure access; that is, helping engineers and IT professionals get access to databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters, switches, Web apps, and more from a desktop or laptop.

StrongDM takes a proxy approach to the challenge of access and authentication. It uses a local client that can run on a Mac, Windows, or Linux device; a gateway to mediate access; and an administration layer for setting policies and permissions and auditing access.

Our guest is Justin McCarthy, StrongDM’s co-founder and CTO.

We discuss:

The problems StrongDM aims to solve
How it differs from other access and authentication systems
Integrations with directories and identity stores
The ability to audit and play back events
Pros and cons of the proxy model
Use cases
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StrongDM unifies access management across databases, servers, clusters, and more—for IT, security, and DevOps teams.

About the Author

Justin McCarthy, Co-founder / CTO, originally developed empathy for Operations as a founding and pager-carrying member of many operations and data teams. As an Executive, he has led Engineering and Product in high-throughput and high-stakes e-Commerce, financial, and AI products. Justin is the original author of StrongDM's core protocol-aware proxy technology. To contact Justin, visit him on Twitter.

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