Delinea and Utimaco Join Forces to Provide Customers with Highest Level of Security for Sensitive Credentials and Secrets, Instantly and Seamlessly

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and AACHEN, GERMANY – June 25, 2025 – Delinea, a pioneering provider of solutions for securing human and machine identities through centralized authorization, and Utimaco, a global platform provider of cybersecurity and compliance solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to significantly enhance cryptographic security for sensitive credentials and secrets by integrating Delinea Secret Server with Utimaco's u.trust General Purpose HSM Se-Series. 

This partnership addresses the critical need for robust key management and protection in today's complex IT environments. With increasing threats such as sophisticated hacking attempts, data breaches, and ransomware attacks, coupled with stringent regulatory requirements like GDPR, CCPA, and industry-specific mandates, organizations must ensure the highest level of security for their most valuable assets, including sensitive credentials, encryption keys, and confidential data. 

Delivering Instant, Enhanced Security Together 

Utimaco is a global leader in cybersecurity and compliance solutions, providing hardware security modules (HSMs) and key management systems that protect critical digital infrastructure and sensitive data. Utimaco's solutions are trusted by enterprises and government organizations worldwide to secure transactions, identities, and infrastructure. 

In particular, Utimaco's u.trust General Purpose HSM Se-Series, offers several coveted benefits, including: 

• Enhanced Security with Tamper-Resistant Hardware: Provides a higher level of assurance for sensitive assets by leveraging a FIPS 140-2 certified, tamper-resistant HSM hardware to protect cryptographic keys, ensuring that these keys are not accessible to unauthorized parties, even in the event of a physical attack. 
  
  
• Reduced Attack Surface: Minimizes exposure to threats by offloading cryptographic operations to a dedicated HSM, isolating these operations from the main system and reducing the potential for vulnerabilities. 
  
  
• Regulatory Compliance: Helps meet compliance mandates such as FIPS 140-2 and GDPR by enforcing strong key protection and secure generation, ensuring that organizations meet the stringent requirements set by regulatory bodies. 
  
  
• Centralized Key Management: Enables policy-driven key lifecycle management with full visibility and control across various environments, providing organizations with a centralized platform to manage and monitor their cryptographic keys, streamlining operations and reducing the risk of human error. 
  
  
• Future-Proofing: Designed crypto-agile and PQC-ready, the u.trust GP HSM Se-Series can be upgraded with NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms, ensuring that organizations are prepared for the advent of quantum computing and the potential threat it poses to current encryption standards. 

By integrating Utimaco’s u.trust General Purpose HSM with Delinea’s Secret Server, organizations can now store the sensitive admin passwords in Secret Server while Utimaco's HSMs protect those credentials with keys stored in tamper-resistant hardware. This means that even if unauthorized, malicious access is somehow gained, the attacker would not be able to decrypt the sensitive credentials without the keys in the HSM.  

This joint solution is crucial for all organizations navigating the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity threats. They can now achieve the highest level of security, instantly and seamlessly, by utilizing new, comprehensive security features, like:  

• Secure Credential Vaulting: Protects privileged accounts with keys stored in secure hardware, ensuring that these accounts are not accessible to unauthorized parties, even if the system is compromised.
   
• Regulatory Compliance: Helps companies meet strict regulatory requirements for cryptographic key handling and data protection, ensuring that organizations avoid costly fines and penalties. 
  
  
• Protection in Hybrid Environments: Enables centralized and secure management of encryption keys across cloud and on-premise environments, providing organizations with a unified solution for managing their cryptographic keys, regardless of where their data is stored. 
  
  
• Empowered Security Teams: Streamlines key management and reduces the attack surface, allowing security teams to focus on higher-value initiatives, such as threat hunting and incident response. 

“This collaboration is more than just a technical integration – it’s a shared vision for how human and machine identities must be secured in the age of AI,” said Chris Kelly, President at Delinea. “By bringing together two best-in-class solutions, we’re reinforcing the principles of least privilege for sensitive credentials. In today’s threat landscape, it only takes a second for a compromise to occur. Our joint solution with Utimaco will give our shared customers the control, visibility, and confidence they need to meet the demands of modern identity security.” 

Cindy Provin, CSO from Utimaco added,  

"Joining forces with Delinea enhances our ability to deliver scalable, security solutions that meet the highest standards of protection. By combining Utimaco’s hardware-rooted key protection with Delinea’s privileged access management (PAM) capabilities, we’re enabling organizations to elevate the protection of their most sensitive credentials. With post-quantum cryptography readiness built into our HSMs, we’re not only solving today’s security challenges, we are preparing our customers for the quantum future." 

About Delinea 

Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, the Delinea Platform delivers robust security and operational efficiency without complexity. Learn more about Delinea on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.    

About Utimaco 

Utimaco is a global platform provider of trusted Cybersecurity and Compliance solutions and services with headquarters in Aachen (Germany) and Campbell, CA (USA). Utimaco develops on-premises and cloud-based hardware security modules, solutions for key management and data protection as well as data intelligence solutions for regulated critical infrastructures and Public Warning Systems. Utimaco is one of the world's leading manufacturers in its key market segments.  

500+ employees around the globe create innovative solutions and services to protect data, identities and communication networks with responsibility for global customers and citizens. Customers and partners in many different industries value the reliability and long-term investment security of Utimaco’s high-security products and solutions. Find out more on www.utimaco.com.