Case Study: Zefr reduces administrative overhead and improves access control with StrongDM

Zefr - Customer Case Study

Zefr, a software company using AI to improve digital campaign effectiveness, struggled with onboarding and offboarding technical hires, managing temporary access for on-call teams, and limited auditing across its growing database environment. Before StrongDM, access control was difficult to track, and manual processes left too many accounts with overly broad permissions.

StrongDM provided a simple, Terraform-based deployment that unified access discovery, temporary privilege management, and auditing for Zefr’s databases and Kubernetes clusters. With StrongDM, Zefr cut administrative overhead from about four hours per week to 30 minutes, an 88% reduction, while improving least-privilege access, audit visibility, and engineering productivity.

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Wes Tanner

Vice President, Engineering