Tim Prendergast

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), before joining StrongDM, Tim founded Evident.io—the first real-time API-based cloud security platform. In 2018, Palo Alto Networks (PANW) acquired Evident.io, and Tim joined the executive team at PANW. As the first Chief Cloud Officer, Tim helped outline GTM and product strategy with the C-suite for the cloud business. Tim also served as the principal architect for Adobe's Cloud Team, designing and scaling elastic AWS infrastructure to spark digital transformation across the industry. Tim’s love for innovation drives his interest as an investor in true market disrupters. He enjoys mentoring startup founders and serving as an advisor.

StrongDM has been featured in Forbes, The New Stack, VentureBeat, DevOps.com, TechCrunch, and Fortune.

Expertise

Security, Privileged Access Management, Zero Trust, Access, Dynamic Access Management, Team

Latest blog posts from Tim

CyberArk-Wiz Partnership: Cloud Security or Cloud Confusion?

Yesterday, CyberArk announced a new partnership with Wiz, where they’re touting “complete visibility and control for cloud-created identities.” I know I’ve had my fun poking holes at CyberArk in the past, but with this announcement, they’ve just handed the world a glaringly tone-deaf admission of being outdated, un-innovative, and uninterested in what enterprise security teams actually want.

PAM Was Dead. StrongDM Just Brought it Back to Life.

In essence, legacy PAM solutions over-index on access. StrongDM uses the principles of Zero Trust to evaluate and govern every action, no matter how minor - where each command, query, or configuration change is evaluated in real-time against dynamic policies that adapt to the context of the user, the sensitivity of the action, and the prevailing threat landscape.

The Access Management Bill of Rights

I'm continuously shocked by how poorly the PAM industry has treated customers to date. Shame on CyberArk, Delinea, and all the rest of you for persisting with such predatory models. The business model is "squeeze the blood out of them, then squeeze harder." The deployment model is "you'll never ...

strongDM has a new CEO.

strongDM appoints Tim Prendergast as the new CEO

Crossing the Chasm from the Couch to strongDM

I thought I had solved the biggest problems in the cloud, so I shifted into the background to watch the next evolutions of technology pass me by. I had the comfortable couch, the latest game console, and plenty of time to regret the true state of my adult gaming reflexes. I thought I was done. I was wrong.

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