Secure developer access from code to cloud

Developers have privileged access to sensitive systems such as CI/CD toolchains, databases, user workstations, containers and cloud resources. This makes developers prime targets for attackers. Delinea discovers developer identities, human and non-human, and enforces zero standing privilege with automated, context-based controls. Access happens automatically, in real-time, with least privilege enforced at the moment it's needed.
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Challenges with securing developer identities  

  • Lack of visibility into developer accounts and service accounts for central oversight and compliance
  • Weak access controls for CI/CD toolchain and cloud infrastructure
  • Poor credential management and static secrets tied to service accounts and automation
  • No policy-based, just-in-time controls
  • Unauthorized lateral movement across environments by compromised human and non-human identities

Strengthen developer identity security with the Delinea Platform

Gain visibility into developer identities, credentials, and access

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.

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Detect and respond to active and latent threats to developer identities

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.

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Simplify developer credential management

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.

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Provide secure access to critical resources

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.

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Eliminate standing privilege for developer identities

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.

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79.9%
of tech respondents say their organizations’ developers bypass security policies to use AI code tools
70%
of developers admitted to using a coworker’s credentials to bypass company restrictions
15%
of commit authors leaked a secret on GitHub

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