Cloud Access Broker · acquired by 1Password (June 2026)
Apono decides at the door. StrongDM stays for the whole session.
Read the Apono comparison
Each identity-based access control platform is built to the same standard. Sourced, specific, and honest about tradeoffs.
Cloud Access Broker · acquired by 1Password (June 2026)
Apono decides at the door. StrongDM stays for the whole session.
Read the Apono comparison
Certificate-Based Infrastructure Access
Teleport gives users the same destination in a few places. A meaningfully different road once you are actually in a session.
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Secrets Management & Vaultless PAM
Akeyless closes the door on standing secrets. StrongDM stays in the room after it closes.
Cloud Access Broker
Britive is a newer entrant building runtime PAM around agentless, ephemeral access for people, AI agents, and machine identities. We’re still building this comparison.
Read the Britive comparisonCOMPARISON CRITERIA
How identity, context and policy determine who can reach critical infrastructure.
Whether access can be granted only when needed and automatically removed afterward.
Whether policy enforcement stops at login or continues throughout the session.
Coverage across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, databases, servers and critical systems.
What security teams can see, search and prove after access occurs.
The most meaningful endorsements come from our customers
Before StrongDM it would take up to a week to get someone provisioned. With StrongDM we can now do that in minutes.
Ali Khan
CISO, Better
We used StrongDM to instantly deliver results to our auditors, which really simplified the SOC 2 process.
Jon Hyman
Co-Founder & CTO, Braze
After StrongDM, we were able to cut their VPN access, so they didn’t have that insecure access to the entire private network.
Dave Anderson
Director of InfoSec, Greenhouse Software
