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.

StrongDM has been featured in Forbes, The New Stack, VentureBeat, DevOps.com, TechCrunch, and Fortune.

Expertise

Webinars, Zero Trust, Access, Podcasts, Privileged Access Management, Identity and Access Management, Role-Based Access Control, Security, Databases, Auditing, SOC 2, Policy, Productivity

Latest blog posts from Justin

Have You Nailed Zero Trust?

Reality doesn’t always match expectations. The Netflix baking show “Nailed It!” makes that clear: contestants will attempt to replicate a beautifully decorated unicorn cake, only to create a baking fail. And Zero Trust looks easy enough, but the reality for many companies is that it falls flat. It ...

Day Two Cloud 134: Simplifying Infrastructure Access With StrongDM

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.

Access Management 101: Understanding Roles & Access

Here’s the scenario: On one side, you’re inundated with requests to provide access to critical infrastructure in order to enable teams to do their jobs; on the other side, you’re tasked with auditing access and ensuring that security to those systems is solid.