Delinea has completed its acquisition of StrongDM, the universal access management company purpose-built for modern engineering, DevOps, and AI-driven environments.
As enterprises scale agentic AI and automation, privileged access is increasingly required by non-human identities (NHIs) that operate autonomously across hybrid and cloud-native environments, introducing risks that static, credential-based models were never designed to govern. By combining Delinea’s leadership in enterprise privileged access management (PAM) with StrongDM’s just-in-time (JIT) runtime authorization, organizations can discover every identity, reduce risk where it matters, and enforce least-privilege access at the moment of action, making Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) achievable in practice.
“Standing and hard-coded privileges remain one of the largest sources of risk in modern, AI-driven environments,” said Art Gilliland, CEO at Delinea. “Security teams have historically had to balance between strong identity governance policies and maintaining developer and operational speed. By bringing StrongDM’s runtime authorization capabilities to the Delinea Platform, we’re empowering rapid and secure AI adoption for our customers.”
The combined Delinea and StrongDM platform brings together leading enterprise PAM and runtime authorization into a unified identity security control plane powered by Delinea Iris AI, enabling real-time policy evaluation and governance of privileged actions taken by both human and non-human identities across modern infrastructure.
Together, Delinea and StrongDM deliver:
- Discovery and governance of privileged access for every human and non-human identity across infrastructure, databases, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
- Reduced exposure to credential theft, phishing, and software supply chain attacks by minimizing persistent credentials
- Real-time governance of privileged actions taken by AI agents and other non-human identities through centralized visibility, auditability, and enforcement
“The rise of agentic AI and non-human identities is accelerating operational workflows to machine speed, exposing the limits of static privilege models,” said Emanuel Figueroa, Senior Research Analyst at IDC. “By incorporating StrongDM’s JIT runtime capabilities into the Delinea Platform, organizations can extend Zero Trust to the precise moment of action and advance toward ZSP across both traditional and cloud-native environments.”
With this acquisition, Delinea establishes identity as the control plane for modern security, helping to ensure every privileged action taken by a human or machine identity is evaluated and authorized in real time, enabling organizations to eliminate standing privilege across AI-driven environments.