One compromised account decides how bad a breach gets, and the record proves it. A single unpatched vendor flaw exposed roughly 824,000 consumers across 80 banks and credit unions, and a third of financial-sector breaches arrive through a third party. Examiners now test identity controls directly, from OCC, Fed and FDIC third-party reviews to the SEC’s Reg S-P priority.
Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (financial services findings via American Banker); Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships, June 2023; SEC 2026 examination priorities.Scope it, time-box it, record it. Then expand to core banking, SWIFT and service accounts at a pace your teams can absorb.
Delinea extends Privileged Access Management (PAM) into continuous authorization, checking every privileged action against policy as it runs, not just at login. Every decision is enforced in the moment and recorded as proof.
Delinea works with the estate you run today, core banking to mainframes to cloud, with hundreds of validated integrations. No rip-and-replace.
Financial institutions run on logins security teams can’t fully see: vendors, AI tools or service accounts nobody remembers creating. Delinea gives you one place to see, control and prove every privileged action.
Continuous authorization in practice
A compromised identity gets caught when it acts, not months later. Policy and behavioral analytics authorize every privileged action at runtime, for AI agents and humans alike. Entry can't always be prevented. Containment can.
Built for finance’s third-party problem
Fintech partners and outsourced IT get fast, VPN-less access with no standing privilege and every session recorded: the oversight evidence Reg S-P requires of SEC registrants and the interagency guidance expects of banks.
Consolidate your current vault
Most institutions arrive with existing vaults and incomplete deployments. Delinea supplements what is already in place, then consolidates access and credentials in phases you control. No credential rotates until its dependencies are mapped.
![]()
Audit-ready for what’s in force
The evidence auditors ask for is built in across PCI DSS 4.0.1, SOX, DORA and the amended NYDFS Part 500, with object-level SoD extending governance across SAP, Oracle, Workday and Dynamics.
Discover how DORA aims to enhance the EU financial sector's ICT resilience and explore the challenges faced by financial institutions in our whitepaper.
Read the whitepaperLearn how PCI DSS changes affect your security strategy and what to look for in a PAM solution that protects cardholder data.
Read the whitepaperA Swiss Bank works with Delinea to improve identity monitoring, reduce risk, and gain greater confidence in their Identity Security posture.
Download the case study