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PROS

StrongDM significantly enhances security and operational efficiency.
Time to onboard with StrongDM is minimal.
StrongDM consolidates management of resources on private networks like EC2 and Kubernetes.
It streamlines on-call workflows and enables seamless proof-of-concept transitions into production.
StrongDM aids compliance with detailed session logs and query capture.

CONS

StrongDM can improve its initial setup and onboarding experience for larger enterprise environments.
The pricing of StrongDM is considered expensive.
There is a need for better control and communication regarding updates and their impact.
StrongDM has limited MFA options, heavily relying on OTP and Duo, lacking support for true passwordless setups.
Stability issues with StrongDM have been noted, with crashes affecting its reliability.
 

StrongDM Pros review quotes

MX
Dev Ops Engineer And Solution Architect at Scania
May 27, 2026
StrongDM positively impacts our organization in many ways, mainly in cost savings from the time saved, and it has significantly improved both security and operational efficiency for us.
AmitRathod - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at Toll Holdings Limited
Jun 3, 2026
By adopting StrongDM, we have achieved benefits such as eliminating our weekend outages, streamlining ongoing on-call workflows, enabling seamless migration with POC transitions directly into production with minimal effort, allowing our engineers to use their preferred SQL clients like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Workbench, and facilitating compliance through detailed session logs and query capture for SOC 2 and ISO audits.
reviewer2804475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Iam Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 23, 2026
The best features in StrongDM are the password rotation capabilities, which I think are pretty cool, and also how you can literally log in to any of the privileged servers through a single platform.
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VG
Director at LivePerson
May 4, 2026
I absolutely would say that the best features of StrongDM and what I appreciate about the solution is that time to onboard is absolutely minimal.
Ibrahim Hassan Barakat - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at EMAK For Computer Manufacturing (ECM)
Apr 16, 2026
The best features in StrongDM are that it is the easiest product in the market for this situation with easy access.
reviewer2809026 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Jun 16, 2026
StrongDM positively impacts my organization by helping with compliance and audit functions.
reviewer2589615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 29, 2024
We primarily used StrongDM for access to resources on private networks like EC2 machines, Kubernetes clusters, and various databases.
PG
Senior Devops Engineer at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Aug 16, 2024
All of the logging is handled for us, including for auditing purposes. Looking through the audit logs is not a painful experience.
 

StrongDM Cons review quotes

MX
Dev Ops Engineer And Solution Architect at Scania
May 27, 2026
I believe StrongDM can improve its initial setup and onboarding experience for larger enterprise environments like Scania, where we have a lot of processes.
AmitRathod - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at Toll Holdings Limited
Jun 3, 2026
Additionally, StrongDM has limited MFA and passwordless options, relying heavily on time-based one-time passwords (OTP) or Duo, lacking support for true passwordless setups like biometrics or hardware YubiKeys, and it does not support per-session MFA.
reviewer2804475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Iam Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 23, 2026
I think the stability of StrongDM is about four to five due to the occasional crashes that I mentioned.
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VG
Director at LivePerson
May 4, 2026
My thoughts on the pricing of StrongDM is that it is expensive.
Ibrahim Hassan Barakat - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at EMAK For Computer Manufacturing (ECM)
Apr 16, 2026
I rate the stability of the product five out of ten because crashes sometimes happen when we are working on it.
reviewer2809026 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Jun 16, 2026
Integration, however, is something which admins configure with StrongDM, and in that area, it can be improved.
reviewer2589615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 29, 2024
It would be beneficial to have better control and alignment between frequent updates and improved communication regarding possible negative effects on existing customer bases.
PG
Senior Devops Engineer at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Aug 16, 2024
We've had a few issues with the stability of this product in the past.