The Bastion Host Bill Nobody Sends to Finance
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Bastion hosts carry hidden costs beyond engineering headaches: they fragment budgets across monitoring, headcount, and incident response; slow enterprise sales cycles when security questionnaires can't produce clean audit trails; raise cyber insurance premiums and complicate M&A diligence; and create a single-point-of-failure knowledge risk when the one engineer who understands the setup leaves. The piece frames just-in-time, least-privilege access as the fix, positioning StrongDM as a way to replace shared jump hosts with session-based access tied to real identities, without ripping out existing secrets managers.
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Where the Costs HideThe Deal That Stalls OutInsurance and M&A Are Asking TooThe One-Engineer ProblemThe Just-in-Time Alternative783 Impressions