Delinea has added to the features of its privilege access management (PAM) platform by buying StrongDM, a competitor This article explores delinea identity security. . This is because systems are connecting more and more with non-human identities (NHI) and artificial intelligence agents.
The deal, which was announced in January for an undisclosed amount, was finalized on March 5. StrongDM's just-in-time (JIT) proxy-based access platform will help Delinea's identity security go beyond traditional vault-based PAM. Delinea's Secret Server is currently set up as a vault that keeps track of permissions and lets users check out static credentials. StrongDM adds temporary, real-time credentials through a developer-focused workflow.
This lets Delinea control privileged actions in different environments without getting in the way of engineers' work. TPG Capital helped start the company after Centrify and Thycotic, two PAM providers, merged in 2021.
Identity Security 2026: Four Predictions and Suggestions ### Bringing Two Worlds Together Gilliland says that the purchase of StrongDM shows how PAM's role is changing. Gilliland says that traditional PAM was made for IT admins to check out passwords from vaults and log in to servers. However, modern PAM needs to do more than that.
He says, "Developers work on a hundred systems at once, and they want infrastructure-as-code workflows, not a break in their process to check out a secret." Prendergast will stay with Delinea for now in a role that hasn't been made public. He says that being bought by Delinea fits with how customers already use the two platforms.
