Challenges with securing machine identities
Machine identities sprawl across clouds, containers, pipelines, and applications, creating blind spots for security teams. Delinea discovers them across on-premise and cloud, builds an inventory with ownership and context, and keeps it current.
We extend that visibility to the access layer: databases, servers, Kubernetes, and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP. New assets come under governance immediately, mapped to existing policies, giving security teams a real-time view of which identities can reach critical systems.
Hard-coded secrets and long-lived keys in repositories and code are easy targets. Delinea centralizes credential vaulting, integrates with third-party key vaults, and issues short-lived certificates for instant authentication.
Delinea also eliminates static credentials at the point of access. Credentials are retrieved just-in-time from existing stores and injected automatically, reducing exposure without replacing your existing vaults.
Standing permissions for service accounts accumulate over time and go unreviewed. Delinea grants access only when requests and context meet policy, then automatically revokes accounts, roles, and secrets when tasks complete.
Zero standing privilege extends to infrastructure. CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and AI agents get access that's purpose-scoped, time-bound, and auditable. Access is provisioned and revoked by policy, so there are no persistent credentials, no standing privileges.
As pipelines, services, and automation scale, manual governance can't keep pace. Delinea automates access reviews, lifecycle workflows, and certificate and secret rotation to streamline audits.
That automation extends to the infrastructure layer. Every privileged action from service accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and automated workloads is recorded in a unified audit trail alongside human activity, giving security and compliance teams a clear record of who accessed what, who approved it, and how it was used.
The cloud native Delinea Platform reduces risk across human and machine identities with intelligent, centralized authorization, delivering compliant, usable identity security without slowing growth.
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