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PROS

StrongDM saves significant time in onboarding and access management, providing cost savings.
StrongDM enhances security and operational efficiency by consolidating resources on a single platform.
StrongDM supports compliance needs, offering audit logs and query captures for SOC 2 and ISO audits.
StrongDM provides centralized access management, allowing seamless access and auditing across systems.
StrongDM reduces effort by approximately 60% compared to other PAM tools, improving access management and auditing.

CONS

StrongDM can improve its initial setup and onboarding experience for larger enterprises like Scania, where complex processes are involved.
The pricing of StrongDM is considered expensive.
There is a need for better control and communication regarding frequent updates and their impact on existing customer bases.
StrongDM relies heavily on time-based one-time passwords or Duo for multi-factor authentication, lacking support for true passwordless setups like biometrics or hardware YubiKeys.
Occasional stability issues have been reported, with StrongDM experiencing periodic crashes.
 

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.
reviewer2872911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 15, 2026
Since using StrongDM, I estimate around a 60% reduction in effort compared to other PAM tools.
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reviewer2871399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Delivery Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 14, 2026
StrongDM has positively impacted my organization by saving me a lot of time as a security auditor, because I have to navigate settings and configurations to check the presence of certain security controls in place.
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.
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.
reviewer2872911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 15, 2026
StrongDM lacks the capability for web application injections or password injections, so we need to rely on other tools such as HashiCorp for non-human accounts or DevOps scenarios.
Learn what your peers think about StrongDM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2026.
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reviewer2871399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Delivery Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 14, 2026
I think StrongDM could improve by focusing more on network device management by allowing the addition of PAM for network devices, managing legacy network equipment, or helping to initiate enterprise onboarding where a lot of complex environments and initial setup are required.
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.
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.