Challenges with securing developer identities
Delinea discovers every developer identity—human and machine—along with their credentials and entitlements, so security teams can cut down on overprivileged accounts and enforce ephemeral, policy-driven access.
Delinea also discovers cloud resources, continuously scanning AWS, Azure, and GCP for compute instances, databases, and Kubernetes clusters to streamline access governance.
Compromised service accounts and over-permissioned automation pipelines are common attack vectors. Delinea establishes behavioral baselines for developer and machine identity activity, scores anomalies based on risk, and flags misconfigurations such as missing multi-factor authentication (MFA), excessive permissions, and unused but active credentials.
Based on risk findings, teams can automatically remediate misconfigurations, remove over-scoped access, vault exposed credentials, or enforce stronger authorization policies before access is granted.
Delinea provides secure vaulting, rotation, and expiration workflows to eliminate hard-coded credentials and reduce credential sprawl across pipelines and cloud environments.
In modern cloud environments, you can replace static credentials with ephemeral ones issued on demand, and after use, so no standing privilege is left behind.
For infrastructure access, Delinea retrieves vault-managed credentials just in time and injects them directly into database, server, and Kubernetes sessions, enabling secure access without exposing credentials to users.
Developers need elevated permissions for debugging, releases, and migrations, but standing admin rights create risk that never expires.
Delinea evaluates every access request against centralized policy and approves it in real time. Ephemeral access is granted only for the defined duration and scope, with full activity recording for audit.
StrongDM, now part of Delinea, extends this capability with continuous runtime authorization. Privileges are re-evaluated as context changes so high-risk actions are blocked automatically, and access is revoked the moment conditions shift.
Over-scoped service accounts compound risk daily. Delinea enforces least privilege and zero standing privilege for developers, service accounts, and AI-driven automation.
Policy-driven, time-bound, automated access policies, ephemeral credentials, and continuous runtime authorization work together to make that operational, not aspirational.
Developers request just-in-time access through tools they already use. Unified audit trails capture every access request, session, and action.
Developers are an attractive target for attackers. A powerful combination of factors means developer identities should be a top security priority.
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The identity landscape is sprawling, fragmented, and under constant attack. Legacy tools and siloed teams can’t keep up. It’s time for a new approach: a unified, context-driven platform that helps you act fast, enforce policy, and prevent privilege misuse without friction.
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