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An excellent tool to fulfill your JIT access needs
What do you like best about the product?
StrongDMs ease of use is one of its best features. Getting start takes only a few minutes and defining access workflows and onboarding users is a breeze. We were able to integrate StrongDM into our existing infrastructure in under an hour. The SSH replay and DB query auditing are top notch and helps give us confidence that we know what is being done with privileged access when it is granted.
When we had a few questions about how to accomplish certain tasks within StrongDM, their support was quick to respond and helpful. In cases where a functionality wasn't available they logged a feature request for us so that the development team would consider it for the future.
When we had a few questions about how to accomplish certain tasks within StrongDM, their support was quick to respond and helpful. In cases where a functionality wasn't available they logged a feature request for us so that the development team would consider it for the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
We haven't encountered any real downsides to StrongDM as of yet. The only thing that it lacks which we would love to have is a multi-level approval workflow that'd require multiple people to approve access. Based on discussions with their team this is on their roadmap and at the current time we could accomplish it if we had a ServiceNow integration. Beyond that though, StrongDM has everything we need to satisfy our use case and we're very pleased with the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
StrongDM is solving the just-in-time access problem for us with full auditing of what is done in those access sessions. It helps give us confidence about what is being done and by who in addition to scoping access to only small windows of time.
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A reasonably good solution if you're willing to pay for enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
Managing access well is a challenging problem, and their solution is more complete than most I've evaluated. Getting everything StrongDM has to offer in a single competitor is difficult. They are reasonably easy to implement and integrate into your system, and their approach to connecting to databases and SSH endpoints is reasonably easy to use.
Also, I love that they do not participate in the "SSO Tax" nonsense -- all tiers of service have access to federated access through an IDP. This should be table stakes in 2024, but sadly it is still all too rare.
I also appreciate that they are bucking the trend a bit on pricing. The "Enterprise" label with a "contact us for pricing" note typically sets the expectation that the increase is going to be astronomical. That does not seem to be StrongDM's approach, and it's worth talking to them about the pricing.
Also, I love that they do not participate in the "SSO Tax" nonsense -- all tiers of service have access to federated access through an IDP. This should be table stakes in 2024, but sadly it is still all too rare.
I also appreciate that they are bucking the trend a bit on pricing. The "Enterprise" label with a "contact us for pricing" note typically sets the expectation that the increase is going to be astronomical. That does not seem to be StrongDM's approach, and it's worth talking to them about the pricing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Using StrongDM to access HTTP/S endpoints is considerably more painful than the alternatives, and the SSH authentication methodology isn't great, as it creates and manages its own key instead of simply acting as a CA that signs your existing key. Even with the way they sign the key they don't fully support the SSH spec which limits your access control options on the SSH server itself.
Overall it sits in that place that does what you need, with less frustration than alternatives, but at the essentials tier it falls into the "good not great" space.
Once you jump to enterprise it improves a good bit, adding key features that are important to most of us who would implement something like this, including reports around access, log streaming, and API-based access to audit data.
I do wish they had a middle-ground between the two, as essentials is too limited for most organizations, but enterprise, while a great set of features, is probably more than many organizations need.
Overall it sits in that place that does what you need, with less frustration than alternatives, but at the essentials tier it falls into the "good not great" space.
Once you jump to enterprise it improves a good bit, adding key features that are important to most of us who would implement something like this, including reports around access, log streaming, and API-based access to audit data.
I do wish they had a middle-ground between the two, as essentials is too limited for most organizations, but enterprise, while a great set of features, is probably more than many organizations need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
StrongDM enables us to restrict access on a user-level. While VPNs can provide some of this, restricting access to specific resources in a target network at the IP or TCP/UDP level can be difficult and error-prone. StrongDM enables us to control that more effectively, while still supporting the broad array of tooling that our internal teams use, from IDEs and GUI tools down to terminal tools and even shell scripts in a convenient manner. It not only improves our ability to ensure least-privilege access, it allows for easier rotation of authentication data on the backend systems without user impact, and allows us to audit the work that is being done in those systems and by whom.
A mature solution for dynamic access control.
What do you like best about the product?
StrongDM supports the richest set of connectivity protocols covering all your infrastructure.
It is easy to deploy and maintain.
End users continue using their favorite client application for remote access to databases, servers, clouds, clusters.
Credentials broker feature allows to manage service credentials without affecting end users' access.
Ease of implementing role based access and improve least privilege posture.
Extensive logging capabilities will assist with your security audits and investigations.
Their customer support is knowledgeable and responsive.
It is easy to deploy and maintain.
End users continue using their favorite client application for remote access to databases, servers, clouds, clusters.
Credentials broker feature allows to manage service credentials without affecting end users' access.
Ease of implementing role based access and improve least privilege posture.
Extensive logging capabilities will assist with your security audits and investigations.
Their customer support is knowledgeable and responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product is not cheap. Though it is worth the investment.
I am looking for better capabilities of extracting audit data out of the StrongDM platform.
I am looking for better capabilities of extracting audit data out of the StrongDM platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementation of the centralizes access management covering all corporate infrastructure.
Can't stop using it
What do you like best about the product?
The power of SDM is the simplictly it brings to a simple day to day tasks.
The idea that protected cloud resources are just apporachable directly for every team member, directly from his workstation is irreplaceable.
The frequency of use is - always. every developer or product member uses it all the time.
The customer support is really cool with very good SLA.
The integration with the environment and the implementation was really easy, just created an EC2, installed SDM and received immideit value.
The idea that protected cloud resources are just apporachable directly for every team member, directly from his workstation is irreplaceable.
The frequency of use is - always. every developer or product member uses it all the time.
The customer support is really cool with very good SLA.
The integration with the environment and the implementation was really easy, just created an EC2, installed SDM and received immideit value.
What do you dislike about the product?
little bit expensive. SDM is really cool and integrates very well with various of resources but I think that it can be little bit cheaper.
running it from github actions isn't always working.
running it from github actions isn't always working.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Actually both.
I don't need to manage credentials.
SDM allows me to control private resources directly from Okta's SCIM
I don't need to manage credentials.
SDM allows me to control private resources directly from Okta's SCIM
Senior Devops Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Auditing features are very clear. It is also easy to implement the product once you read about it in the document section. The Customer support is superb.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike. There are many features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps identify who has logged into our systems and what commands they use.
Instant life improvement to access your infra
What do you like best about the product?
It's quite easy to use and a big improvement compared to a standard VPN.
It moves most of the complexity to your DevOps team and for the developers is a great time saver.
It moves most of the complexity to your DevOps team and for the developers is a great time saver.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would help if you had a capable team to manage it.
There are also a lot of useful features that are coming shortly but for the moment the core features are there and working decently well with few bugs.
The price is not for everyone.
There are also a lot of useful features that are coming shortly but for the moment the core features are there and working decently well with few bugs.
The price is not for everyone.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have multiple k8s clusters, databases, VMs and probably something else and with strongdm everyone that have access can connect to the needed resource in no time.
No more sloppy VPN connection to deal with. Big time saver and much smoother process to connect and switch environment.
No more sloppy VPN connection to deal with. Big time saver and much smoother process to connect and switch environment.
Modern and simple private access solution
What do you like best about the product?
Modern and simple design. Working as expected.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately I encountered a small bug that caused the same device to be registered twice for MFA breaking MFA entirely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessing protected infrastructure of a customer.
UseFul for enterprise level application
What do you like best about the product?
Centralized Access Control
Audit Trails and Monitoring
Simplified Onboarding and Offboarding
Secure Access
Integration with Various Data Stores
Reports Library
Audit Trails and Monitoring
Simplified Onboarding and Offboarding
Secure Access
Integration with Various Data Stores
Reports Library
What do you dislike about the product?
Dependency on Internet Connection
Learning Curve
Learning Curve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reports library is very use full which is new feature of strongdm team has enhanced.
SDM support is excellent
What do you like best about the product?
Quick response to reported issues good work
What do you dislike about the product?
online documentation hard or cannot find needed answers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
odd issues pop up from time to time
A+ Software, A Must When Security Is Paramount But Users Need Access!
What do you like best about the product?
In Kubernetes, it makes switching between contexts, providing access (both role-based and temporary), and configuring your local kube config so seamless and so easy, it is actually painless. We handle dozens of environments and hundreds of datasources, and by leveraging their sdm CLI util, macbook app, and SDK, we are able to provision and maintain it all, with little-to-no issues. We use it multiple times a day and our dev teams use it multiple times an hour. Great customer service with timely, insightful responses. It was fairly easy to integrate into our existing infra.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would not say 'dislike' persay, but there is functionality we are waiting to see included in the sdm CLI to make managing some of the admin resources a bit easier. There is also an odd bug involving incorrect ports/local ports *sticking* to some datasources in the SDM macbook client app. Easy enough to workaround, though. It is a rare occurence.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintaining and provisioning hundreds of users and thousands of datasources in an organized, secure, and easy-to-use manner.
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