StrongDM Acquisition Expands Delinea’s Cloud PAM Scope

Delinea-StrongDM Purchase Aims to Unite SaaS, Kubernetes and On-Prem Access Needs Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • January 16, 2026

Delinea plans to purchase an access management vendor led by Palo Alto Networks' former chief cloud officer to address workloads in Kubernetes and SaaS environments.

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The San Francisco-based company said Silicon Valley-based StrongDM's developer-friendly privilege management and use of ephemeral credentialing will help Delinea deal with the rise of agentic artificial intelligence workloads, according to CEO Art Gilliland. He said StrongDM's focus on automation, just-in-time access and tight developer integration complements Delinea's strength with traditional IT and security teams.

"If you look at what companies are doing today, they're driving a lot of their infrastructure towards cloud and SaaS and more ephemeral kinds of ...