Delinea to Acquire StrongDM for Runtime Access

Acquisition of StrongDM enhances identity and access management because it can permit runtime authorization and zero standing privilege of human and machine identities as well as AI identities.

Delinea has agreed to purchase StrongDM in a deal that seeks to transform the way businesses handle privileged access in both cloud and on-premise setups. The deal brings together privileged access control and on-demand authorization as companies grows their use of AI agents and non-human identities.

The merged platform will accommodate the administrators, the programmers, the machine identities, and the artificial intelligences as a single identity and access management system. It will apply the same access rules to systems, databases, containers, and SaaS environments to address new security issues linked to automation and temporary identities.

The runtime authentication solution of StrongDM will be an extension of the platform offered by Delinea, where access according to least privilege will be enforced when the action takes place. The approach matches zero standing privilege models, which reduce the use of long-lasting credentials, a big weakness in many current identity and access management methods.

The acquisition is a more general industry change as businesses find it difficult to regulate fast-developed service accounts, bots, and artificial intelligence processes. Delinea will also provide an identity and access management experience with a simplification of the process by combining policy, governance, and audit into a singular layer of control and enhancing visibility and compliance.

Both firms emphasized that executives had to ensure that the safeguarding of AI agents and non-human identities was as rigorous as that of human users. It is projected that the deal will be closed in the first quarter of 2026, provided that regulatory approvals are obtained.

With this action, Delinea will be in a position of offering continuous authorization and consistency in the control that strengthens its direction in the view of contemporary, cloud-native identity and access control solutions.