Case Study: Benevity accelerates DevOps and strengthens data privacy control with strongDM

Benevity elevates data privacy control while accelerating DevOps workflows

Benevity, a financial services and HR software company, needed a more scalable and secure way to manage infrastructure access as it moved to AWS. Its SRE team was struggling with manual, custom Ansible-based access requests and shared SSH keys for EC2 shell access, which slowed down developers and created security and compliance concerns. Benevity chose strongDM to help streamline secure database and server access.

With strongDM, Benevity automated approval workflows, enabled role-based access, and added auditable logs for every database query and shell session. The solution also supported self-service access to scrubbed, production-like databases for developers, helping the team spin up ephemeral environments on demand without extra manual steps. As a result, Benevity improved DevOps efficiency while strengthening security and compliance oversight through strongDM.

Benevity

Nina d’Abadie

Director of DevOps