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FOR SECURITY TEAMS Assume the credential is compromised. Limit what it reaches. Attackers rarely need malware once they hold a working credential. StrongDM narrows what any single credential can reach across your infrastructure, whether a person, a service account or an AI agent is holding it, and records what it did while connected. Book a 30-minute walkthrough Security teams at these companies enforce infrastructure access with StrongDM A credential will get out. The question is how far it travels. A person's credential An engineer with standing admin rights hands an attacker the same rights, on every resource that grant covers, with no further work. → Reach: everything that role touches. A service account token Pipeline tokens sit in environment variables and config files. No MFA prompt stands in the way and nothing expires on its own. → Reach: whatever the pipeline was built to touch. An AI agent's access Agents act on someone's behalf at machine speed, calling tools faster than any review process runs. → Reach: as wide as the person behind it. 37% Of organizations had an admin account with MFA disabled on an IaaS platform Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report 12.2% Of third-party cloud integrations can read all account data or take over the account outright Datadog, State of Cloud Security 2025 14 days Median attacker dwell time, up from 11 days the year before Mandiant, M-Trends 2026 8 months For third parties to resolve half of their weak password and permission findings Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report Six controls that shrink an incident before it starts One credential, one resource Policy evaluates every connection against the requester, the resource and the context before the session opens. A compromised credential reaches what policy allows in that moment, not everything its role was ever granted. Nothing worth stealing at the endpoint StrongDM pulls the credential from your vault and brokers the session. Keys and passwords never land in a terminal, a config file or a chat thread, which removes the artifact an attacker goes looking for first. Close the window on standing admin rights Engineers request access when they need it, scoped to one resource for a defined period, approved in Slack or Teams. The grant closes on its own, which means there is no dormant privilege sitting around waiting to be inherited. Service accounts inside the same policy A service account is its own principal with its own role scope, and policy can condition on whether the requester is a person or a machine. Automation keeps running while its reach stays bounded and its activity stays visible. An agent cannot outrun your policy 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, and policy can forbid individual tool calls by name. Evidence instead of inference Sessions record in full against a named principal, human or not, and SSH, RDP and Kubernetes sessions replay as they happened. Investigations start from what a principal actually ran rather than what the logs imply. “The biggest impact of rolling out StrongDM has been that it’s been a boon for compliance and regulatory adherence, as well as freeing the data in a way as it’s much easier to access now.” Ali Khan CISO, Better.com Read the Better.com story Map the controls to a framework BLOG PCI Compliance Checklist: The 12 Requirements GUIDE (PDF) ISO 27001 Solution Guide GUIDE NIST Compliance: 2026 Complete Guide Bring a credential you are worried about. Book a demo