The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model measures progress across five pillars. Delinea and StrongDM cover all five, from the vault to the live session, for every human, machine, and AI identity touching your infrastructure.
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Delinea has spent years building the identity security control plane underneath that model. It vaults credentials, elevates endpoint privilege, governs service accounts, manages cloud entitlements, and detects identity threats.
StrongDM extends that same policy into the live session, for databases, Kubernetes, cloud consoles, and the AI agents now showing up in production. Together they cover more of the ZTMM than either covers alone.
What follows is the pillar-by-pillar breakdown. Not marketing bullets. The actual products doing the work.
Cross-Cutting Capabilities
Visibility and analytics. StrongDM session recording and replay, combined with Identity Threat Protection’s behavior analytics, flag anomalous privileged activity in the environment where it happened rather than reconstructing it after the fact from five different log sources. in the environment where it happened, not reconstructed after the fact from five different log sources.
Automation and orchestration. Access Workflows in StrongDM route just-in-time requests through Slack, Teams, or ServiceNow. Account Lifecycle Manager automates service account provisioning and decommissioning on its own schedule. Neither one waits on a ticket queue.
Governance. Compliance reporting, audit trails, and separation-of-duties enforcement span both platforms, so an auditor gets one coherent record instead of a reconciliation project.
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Customer Proof
“Security is a necessary part of day-to-day life. In terms of how we go forward, StrongDM will continue to be part of that story. It has all the mechanisms in place for database access control that we require, and I haven’t found a competitor yet that does the same thing.”
“We chose StrongDM because it’s the one solution to rule them all. You integrate all your data sources, servers, and Kubernetes clusters into StrongDM. Your developers get one simple tool to connect using SSO, and they have access to what they own.”
“Clearcover remains committed to the industry’s best security practices. StrongDM provides us with better insights to bolster our security posture.”
“I would urge all other CISOs to adopt StrongDM as their database proxy platform. We implemented it within a day, and within a week we saw more users requesting access once they saw how easy it was.”
“With StrongDM, people don’t have to maintain usernames and passwords for databases, keys for servers, or passwords for websites. When you eliminate the need for passwords, the attack surface is reduced.”
Trust Signals
Secret Server is In Process for FedRAMP High authorization, a direct differentiator for the federal and regulated-industry buyers this framework speaks to most.
PAM Leader
IAM High Performer
Easiest To Do Business With
Best Support