Last week, we announced that Delinea has officially closed our acquisition of StrongDM. For you, as a Delinea customer, this marks a significant step forward with the ability to protect more of your environment, more completely, by extending your identity security capabilities into the runtime layer, without replacing the tools you already rely on.
By bringing StrongDM together with the Delinea Platform, we can now extend the capabilities you use today to:
- Control access in real time, beyond managing credentials
- Reduce standing privilege across all identities
- Secure access to cloud-native infrastructure - including servers, databases, containers, and cloud services
- Support developers, secure access - without slowing them down
In short, this acquisition helps you move closer to zero standing privilege while continuing to build on your existing Delinea deployments.
But this isn’t simply two companies coming together. It reflects a fundamental shift in how organizations operate and how access must be secured in modern environments.
Access Has Changed
Your infrastructure is more dynamic than ever. Developers, administrators, machines, and AI agents interact across cloud environments, containers, databases, and applications in real time.
At the same time, non-human identities are growing rapidly, often outnumbering human users. These identities request access continuously, perform tasks automatically, and may exist only for minutes before disappearing.
In environments like these, standing privilege becomes a major risk. This is one of the reasons many organizations are re-focusing on zero standing privilege (ZSP), granting access only when it’s needed and removing it immediately afterward.
Traditional identity controls were not designed for this model, often lacking the ability to control access dynamically at runtime.
That’s where the combination of Delinea and StrongDM comes in.
Extending Identity Security into the Runtime Layer
Delinea already helps you secure privileged access through vaulting, least-privilege enforcement, identity governance, and more. With StrongDM, you can extend that protection further, into the moment access is executed.
Together, Delinea and StrongDM help you:
- Discover and understand identities across your environment
- Prioritize identity risk based on real exposure
- Authorize and control access in real time
Now, you’ll be able to govern what identities are allowed to do at the moment actions occur.
A New Identity Security Control Plane
Combining Delinea’s enterprise identity security capabilities with StrongDM’s just-in-time runtime authorization will create a unified platform designed for modern infrastructure.
This approach helps you:
- Modernize identity security without disruption
Extend your existing Delinea deployments with runtime authorization and just-in-time access, without replacing current investments. - Govern access across modern infrastructure
Control privileged access to servers, databases, Kubernetes environments, and cloud workloads through centralized policies. - Support how your teams work today
Enable seamless access for developers and administrators while enforcing least privilege and real-time authorization behind the scenes.
The result is a practical path for you to move toward zero standing privilege at enterprise scale.
What This Means for You
The future of access is continuous.
If you are already using Delinea, StrongDM can strengthen the capabilities you depend on today. Identity security now extends beyond vaulting and policy management to runtime access enforcement across your infrastructure. This will help you be able keep up with the ‘continuous’ requirement across your environment.
By combining Delinea’s leadership in privileged access management with StrongDM’s runtime authorization capabilities, you can secure access across human users, machines, and automated systems without slowing innovation.
Learn More
Join experts from Delinea and StrongDM as we talk through the details of how this new relationship changes the game for Delinea customers. We’ll also have a special customer speaker - Stephen Washington, Global Head of Identity and Access Management (IAM), from Cargill – join this discussion. He will share his experience with Delinea and StrongDM, as well as his take on what comes next and what it means to customers like you.
Register here:
Zero Standing Privilege at Enterprise Scale, Extended to Cloud-Native Environments – Now possible with Delinea + StrongDM