Reduce machine identity risk

Delinea secures machine identities through automated lifecycle management, secret vaulting, least privilege enforcement, and governed access to cloud, databases, and Kubernetes with continuous authorization and complete auditability.
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Challenges with securing machine identities 

  • Exponential growth due to increased workloads and cloud-native architectures
  • Operate at high speed and scale, often with complex interdependencies
  • Fragmented, inconsistent governance, documentation, and ownership
  • Often created with excessive access permissions
  • Unknown or misunderstood dependencies without human oversight
  • Secrets stored in code and configuration files

Protect machine identities with the Delinea Platform

Reveal machine identities in your environment

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.

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Assess and fortify machine identity security posture

Attackers can abuse over-privileged machine identities. Delinea baselines machine-identity activity, risk-scores anomalies with AI, and can pull access, reset/rotate credentials, or require step-up authentication, with recommended or automated responses and full auditability. 

Explore Identity Posture & Threat Analysis

Eliminate static secrets for machine identities

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. 

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Secure machine-to-machine connections

Delinea provides secure machine-to-machine access and confines the use of credentials to approved targets, reducing the risk of lateral movement. We also extend these controls with continuous, policy-based authorization. Every machine-initiated connection to critical infrastructure is brokered through Delinea, ensuring access requests are authenticated, authorized, and continuously governed without disclosing credentials.

Explore Privileged Secure Access

Establish JIT access & Zero Standing Privilege

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.

Explore Just-in-time & Zero Standing Privilege

Enforce ownership and compliance for machine identities

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.

Explore Segregation of Duties & GRC

60%
of all identities in a typical organization are non-human
50%
of organizations reported security breaches linked to compromised NHIs in the past year
94
days is the median time to remediate leaked GitHub secrets

Take the next step to secure all identities

The cloud native Delinea Platform reduces risk across human and machine identities with intelligent, centralized authorization, delivering compliant, usable identity security without slowing growth.

Debunking Myths: Machine and AI Identities in Cybersecurity

Join our expert panel for a Delinea webinar, where we'll tackle common myths surrounding machine and AI identities. Our panelists will debunk myths and provide clear insights into the real challenges and solutions in securing these identities. 

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AI is transforming identity security—bringing new opportunities and new threats. Get the playbook and discover how to govern AI, manage access, and stay ahead of emerging threats.  

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Learn how machine identities authenticate to gain privileged access and how their credentials—certificates, SSH keys, and tokens—are managed and secured. You’ll understand machine identity best practices so you can reduce the risk of cyberattacks.

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