Delinea Receives Overall Leader Ranking in KuppingerCole 2026 PAM Compass

Delinea received an Overall Leader ranking in KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management (PAM) 2026, alongside leader recognition in Product, Innovation, and Market Leadership categories. The company’s placement reflects an evaluation focused on privileged access management capabilities.

KuppingerCole’s report recognized Delinea across multiple PAM Compass categories. The company said the PAM shift includes moving from managing accounts to controlling actions that human, machine, and AI identities can take.

In the report, Delinea’s PAM capabilities included Advanced Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-Enough Privilege Controls, which covered ephemeral credentials, workstation admin rights, and granular server privilege elevation. With the StrongDM acquisiton, Delinea extended granular JIT to databases, Kubernetes environments, and cloud consoles using policy-based approvals.

The Compass also described Delinea’s unified approach to discovery, posture analysis, and control as part of a single continuum, including secretless, ephemeral, and zero-standing privilege access models with integration to existing on-premise and cloud-native vault solutions. Delinea provided zero-standing privilege access for AI agents by eliminating standing credentials and evaluating authorization at the moment an action was attempted. “PAM has shifted from managing accounts to controlling the actions humans, machines, and AI identities can take,” said Art Gilliland, CEO of Delinea. “Our recognition as an Overall Leader reflects the Delinea Platform’s ability to govern privilege across all identities, from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native environments, without fragmenting how organizations manage it.” “Privilege is defined less by who holds a specific account and more by what an identity is capable of doing in an environment,” said Alejandro Leal, analyst at KuppingerCole. To learn more about Delinea’s capabilities and see how it compares across the market, download a full copy of the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for PAM 2026 report here: https://delinea.com/resources/kuppingercole-leadership-compass-report

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