FOR IAM TEAMS

People, machines and AI agents. One access program.

Your identity provider (IdP) governs people in the app tier. The service accounts, pipeline jobs and AI agents reaching your databases and servers never pass through it. StrongDM covers all three.

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Works with the identity providers and vaults you already run

IAM teams at these companies run privileged access through StrongDM

Three kinds of requester. One of them goes through your IdP.

People

Engineers hold standing admin rights on production databases and servers, granted once and rarely reviewed.

→ Covered by your IdP for apps. Not for infrastructure.

Machines

Service accounts and pipeline jobs carry tokens nobody has rotated since the pipeline was built.

→ Outside your IdP entirely.

AI agents

Agents request access on behalf of whoever launched them, often against resources nobody scoped for them.

→ New, growing and mostly ungoverned.

2.8%

Of managed cloud identities belong to human users. The rest are machines.

Sysdig, 2026 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report

59%

Of AWS IAM users hold an active access key more than a year old.

Datadog, State of Cloud Security 2025

39%

Of breaches involve credential abuse at some point in the attack.

Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

22 sec

Median hand-off from first access to a second threat group, down from more than eight hours in 2022

Mandiant, M-Trends 2026

Six controls your IdP cannot reach on its own

Every resource type, one client

Databases, servers, Kubernetes, cloud consoles, network devices and internal web apps, all through the same client and the same policy engine. A new resource type does not mean a new tool.

Nobody handles a credential

StrongDM pulls the credential from your vault and brokers the session. Secrets stay out of terminals, config files and chat threads. There is nothing for a person or a script to copy, paste or lose.

Access that expires on its own

Grant access on request, scoped to one resource, for a defined window. Approvals run in Slack or Teams. When the window closes, the grant closes with it.

Service accounts you can actually govern

A service account is its own principal, scoped by role like any user. Policy can condition on whether the requester is a person or a machine. Machine grants show up in the same reports as human ones.

An agent gets exactly what its requester has

StrongDM proxies Model Context Protocol servers, so an AI agent reaches tools through your access policy rather than around it. It inherits the entitlements of the person who invoked it, nothing more. Policy can forbid individual tool calls by name.

Evidence your auditor accepts

Sessions record in full, tied to a named principal, human or not. Reports show who and what can reach which resource, and which grants nobody has used in 90 days. Export them instead of building a spreadsheet.