SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Delinea, the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans, and machines can do and for how long, has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management (PAM) for the eighth consecutive time. Delinea believes this recognition reflects its sustained investment in runtime authorization and its ability to secure a rapidly expanding population of identities across the enterprise.
Delinea continues to push privileged access management toward real-time, context-aware control while enabling the business. Over the past year, the company introduced just-in-time runtime authorization for AI agents, extending the same granular, time-bound access decisions that govern human and machine identities to the autonomous agents now operating inside enterprise environments. These capabilities are used to secure millions of AI agent sessions weekly across its customer environments. Delinea believes this work reflects a broader effort to make authorization dynamic rather than static, granting the right access at the moment it is needed and revoking it when it is not.
"As AI powered attacks increase and companies push to adopt AI to drive productivity, identity security has become the most powerful control," said Art Gilliland, CEO of Delinea. "We believe being recognized by Gartner for the eighth consecutive time underscores our commitment to innovation and to delivering technology our customers can rely on to address the new challenges that AI has elevated."
Delinea believes that reliability is foundational to how enterprises adopt AI safely and at scale. It commits to a 99.995% monthly availability SLA on the Delinea Platform across its global regions, giving customers a dependable foundation for enforcing access controls at scale.
Delinea now delivers enhanced cloud-native JIT capabilities and protocol-level ephemeral credential injection for servers, databases, and Kubernetes, eliminating standing access to critical infrastructure and reducing the attack surface that privileged credentials traditionally create.
For complimentary access to the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management and to learn more about Delinea’s recognition as a Leader, visit https://delinea.com/resources/gartner-magic-quadrant-pam
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Delinea was formed in April 2021 through the merger of Thycotic and Centrify and was named a Leader in the 2022 and 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM. Centrify was named a Leader in the 2018, 2020, and 2021 reports. Thycotic was named a Leader in the 2020 and 2021 reports.
About Delinea
Delinea is the identity security platform that governs what humans, machines, and AI agents do once they have access. It enforces just-in-time authorization at the moment of action, not just when access is first granted, reducing reliance on standing privilege across on-premises, multi-cloud, and ephemeral infrastructure. Built on deep privileged access management expertise, the Delinea Platform continuously discovers identities, analyzes risk, and enforces least privilege, so every access decision is defensible. This gives organizations the visibility and control to adopt AI with confidence. Learn more at delinea.com.
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