Adaptive vs StrongDM

Why organizations choose Adaptive over StrongDM

Adaptive offers a modern approach to infrastructure access and data protection through its unique control plane, which uses containers to broker access for both human and non-human identities.

Modern organizations require more than a network gateway to efficiently manage infrastructure access and protect data at scale.

Agentless architecture

No change needed in network or infrastructure configurations

Flexible deployment types

Adaptive supports both on-premises and managed cloud deployments

Native data protection

Enforce data masking and tokenization across all access vectors

Feature

Access Management

Just-in-Time Access

Granular Authorization

CLI Access

Database Client Access

Service Access

Machine Access

Windows Identities

SaaS Access Management

Session Recording

Multi-party Session

MFA

Data Protection

Dynamic Data Masking

Data Tokenization

Architecture

Agentless

Plug-and-Play Implementation

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StrongDM

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4 Reasons why organizations choose Adaptive over StrongDM

Deployment Options That Keep Your Data Securely In-House

Adaptive provides both self-hosted and managed cloud versions of its platform. The self-hosted option is easy to deploy and ensures that data remains within the customer's environment. This strengthens security, guarantees high availability, and streamlines third-party audits

Unified Control Plane for Data Protection and Access Management

Adaptive seamlessly combines data protection and infrastructure access control through a single control plane. This allows organizations to natively manage privileges and protect data natively across a variety of vectors, including developer CLI access, BI tools, and ETL pipelines.

Granular Authorization for Effective Least Privilege Implementation

Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) is essential to mitigate insider threats. Adaptive simplifies PoLP by centralizing authorization, eliminating the need to create roles within downstream resources, and minimizing the risk of over-privileged access. This approach enhances security by ensuring that access is consistently controlled and limited to what is necessary.

Easy patch management and updates

Adaptive’s agentless architecture simplifies patch management and updates, ensuring that the platform is always up-to-date. Patching is as simple as updating the helm chart, making it easy to deploy and manage.

At CertifyOS, managing access to sensitive healthcare provider data for our geographically dispersed team of over 150 was a security and regulatory challenge. Adaptive solved this problem seamlessly by handling our access requests while providing continuous monitoring of user activity. Our team, both technical and non-technical, adopted Adaptive out-of-the-box without disrupting their existing workflows, making adoption of security and compliance requirements for SOC2, NCQA, and NIST easier.

Anshul Rathi

CEO, CertifyOS

At Exotel, we manage a large number of virtual machines (VMs), and Adaptive has made credential-less SSH access to them easy. It has eliminated the complexities of jumphost management and enabled us to implement granular, command-level privileges for various use cases. Adaptive has also helped us enforce the principles of least privilege and Just-in-Time access effortlessly. Together with database access controls, this has strengthened our infrastructure security and ensured compliance with the standards required by our banking partners.

Moosa Meeran

Senior Information Security Manager, Exotel

As one of India’s largest fintechs, M2P handles a large volume of highly sensitive banking data. Adaptive helps control access across our multi-tenant infrastructure and supports all our complex use cases. With strong data protection at the source, Adaptive helps us safeguard data while ensuring productivity across the organization. The detailed audit logs and session recordings they provide help us meet the strict compliance standards banks require.

Sujay Vasudevan

Head of Risk & Compliance, M2P Fintech

Anshul Rathi

CEO, CertifyOS

Moosa Meeran

Senior Information Security Manager, Exotel

Reduce Insider Threat

Granular Roles with Just-in-Time Access

Protect against insider threats with instant, just-in-time resource access. No credential sharing required.