Tech teams report: infrastructure has gotten complicated & access control has not kept up. Learn why access management is overdue for innovation.
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Apart from its business functions, a database’s core functions are integrating, separating, controlling, accessing, and protecting data. As such, organizations adopting databases must prioritize optimizing data access and protection.
Meet Brad, IT Manager at strongDM whose early career included technical and artistic work on blockbuster movie trailers for Disney, Marvel, and more.
Cloud environments present new challenges for data protection as technological innovation, flexibility, and abstraction change the way we copy, store, and handle data. That’s why Justin McCarthy, CTO and co-founder of strongDM, recently sat down with Mike Vizard and a panel of technology experts. ...
Abdul Siddiqui, Customer Success Manager at strongDM, tells us about a trip to Pakistan and the door-opening power of judicious quiet.
This article presents an overview of RBAC vs. ABAC, plus several additional models of access control, including PBAC, ACL, and DAC. You will learn what these methods are, how they differ from each other, and the pros and cons of each.
Marketing Coordinator Meghan Stephan is a classically-trained singer whose performance venues have ranged from intimate church weddings to professional football games. In today’s interview, she shares her early forays into music, her experience auditioning for The Voice, and an unexpected link between singing and her marketing career.
Sienna Gordon spent a year solo traveling the world. With a tight budget and a big sense of adventure, she slept in monasteries, zipped through tea fields, and even helped MedEvac someone to safety! Her big takeaway from the experience? There are a lot of nice people in the world. I think it’s fair to say that Sienna is one of them.
Phil is the technical lead at strongDM. Prior to this, he was an indie game developer working on the multi-player game Galcon. This gave him a lot of experience in low-level network protocols and cross-network synchronization, as well as security. But as we’ll see, Phil’s interests extend well beyond the tech world.
Access management matters. These days, large-scale data breaches make news headlines more often than celebrity breakups, and 61% of those breaches involve credential data. That’s clearly a problem, and the search for a solution is likely to leave you in a sea of acronyms. PIM, PAM, IAM… what’s the difference? And what matters for your organization?
Today we’re going to take a closer look at the principle of least privilege (PoLP)—what it is, why it matters, and how to implement it in your organization. Understanding the principle of least privilege is critical, as network administrators must strike a balance between ease and security—protecting network access without causing friction for users. If access is too restrictive, employees won’t be able to do their jobs. Too lax, and the door to attack is open.
Surging API use presents new challenges for application security. Discover how experts from StackHawk, strongDM & imVision are learning to adapt and improve their API security.
DevOps is a combination of “development” and “operations” and is a set of practices that combine these two disciplines. SRE stands for Site Reliability Engineering and is a principle that applies software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations to improve site reliability. This new IT discipline is evolving, so its differentiation from DevOps isn’t always clear. The information we share here will help you better grasp these two roles and where they intersect. After reading this
Concerned that bad actors could gain access to your digital resources using stolen credentials? Don't worry, there’s a way to safeguard your employees’ account details. Modern credential management tools and policies can give you precise control over who can view keys to access your systems and how much access they may have. The information in this article will help you conquer your biggest credential management challenges. With the right knowledge and tools, you can significantly mitigate the
