Today marks an important milestone for Delinea, as we officially closed our acquisition of StrongDM. But this is more than just two companies coming together. It reflects, and directly responds to, the fundamental shift underway in how modern organizations operate and secure access. Simply put, the way access works has changed.
In a world where non-human identities, including service accounts, applications, machines, and AI agents are growing exponentially and now far outnumber human users, access has become continuous and dynamic. AI agents operate autonomously across systems, often creating new identities that do a job and disappear in minutes, with access constantly requested, granted, and revoked across hybrid infrastructure.
In these environments, standing privilege poses a significant security risk, which is why organizations are increasingly moving toward zero standing privilege (ZSP) as the operating model for securing both human and non-human identities. But most identity control models weren’t designed for modern, AI-driven environments where access needs to be authorized and re-evaluated continuously and in real time.
Delinea and StrongDM are defining what comes next.
We’re extending identity security into the runtime layer where access is executed, delivering continuous control and protecting both human and non-human identities across modern environments. This approach is built on three fundamentals: discovering every identity across your environment, prioritizing identity risk based on real-world exposure, and governing access at the moment it’s needed.
A new class of identity security platform
By combining Delinea’s leading enterprise PAM with StrongDM’s just-in-time runtime authorization, we’re extending the Delinea Platform for continuous, AI-driven environments to authorize access in real time through a unified policy model. This shifts security beyond credential management to governing what identities are allowed to do at execution time, with real-time control over actions as they happen.
Together, this brings modern identity security controls to today’s dynamic environments, giving organizations a deliberate path to transition to ZSP through three foundational capabilities:
- A modern identity security control plane: One control plane to govern privileged access across hybrid environments with dynamic, least-privilege authorization for every identity, supported by continuous monitoring and real-time reporting across environments.
- PAM modernization without rip-and-replace: Modernize existing PAM with just-in-time access and evolve toward ZSP, without disruption.
- Built for how teams work today: Seamless access across developer and administrator environments, combining Delinea’s governance with StrongDM’s real-time authorization without changing workflows.
What this means for our customers, channel partners, and the market
For Delinea customers and partners, this means identity security now extends into cloud workloads, containers, and databases, delivering continuous visibility, auditability, and control without disrupting existing investments. StrongDM customers and partners gain enterprise-grade governance and compliance within a global identity security platform.
For the market as a whole, Delinea and StrongDM are raising the bar to set a new standard for modern, full-circle identity security. No other vendor can match the combination of ease of use, breadth of discovery, AI capabilities, and complete and total control over the behavior of all human and non-human identities.
We’re closing the long-standing gap between policy and enforcement and delivering control in real time, when access happens. While competitors solve parts of the problem, Delinea secures every identity across every environment through continuous runtime authorization.
The future of access starts now
Security is entering a new era, one that builds on trusted credential protection while extending authorization to the runtime layer. As identities multiply and systems become increasingly autonomous, access must not only be secured at rest, but evaluated and controlled in real time, at the moment actions occur.
Together, Delinea and StrongDM deliver a platform that goes beyond managing who should have access and governs how access happens for every user, machine, and AI agent across every system. By combining industry-leading vault-based security with real-time authorization, organizations gain the visibility, control, and confidence needed to secure innovation without slowing it down.
The future of access is continuous. And it starts now.
Learn more about how Delinea and StrongDM enable zero standing privilege at enterprise scale by signing up for our webinar: Zero standing privilege at enterprise scale, extended to cloud-native environments.
