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StrongDM provides a platform for secure privileged access to a company’s infrastructure, spanning on-premises and cloud systems. It grants access only when needed using Zero Standing Privileges and Just-in-Time access, eliminating shared credentials and over-permitting. The product works by authenticating users, enforcing dynamic access controls based on identity and attributes, and granting time-limited access to resources across diverse systems through native integrations. It also replaces traditional jump boxes, VPNs, and bastion hosts with direct, identity-based access and keeps an auditable access history. This differentiates StrongDM from competitors by focusing on strict, role- and attribute-based access control with dynamic adjustments and comprehensive auditability, rather than relying on static permissions. Its goal is to improve security while making it easier for teams to access the resources they need, achieve Zero Trust, and reduce operational risk.
Industries
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$110.1M
Headquarters
Burlingame, California
Founded
2015
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Omni Consumer Products founder builds 3D, fully interactive, Blade Runner voight-kampff machine in 90 minutes using AI. By PR Newswire March 20, 2026 As AI automates procedural tasks across industries, creativity, communication, and tenacity emerge as the critical hiring criteria for every organization LOS ANGELES, March 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Pete Hottelet, founder of Omni Consumer Products has published an interactive 3D replica of the Voight-Kampff machine from Blade Runner 2049 at voight-kampff.com. The project was built entirely through conversational prompting with Anthropic's Claude AI - without writing a single line of code by hand - in approximately 90 minutes. The vibe coding exercise involved describing the desired output in plain English while the AI generated the underlying Three.js, WebGL, and JavaScript. The project serves as the basis for a broader argument about workforce transformation: as AI systems increasingly handle procedural execution, organizations must prioritize fundamentally human capabilities when evaluating talent. AI's Accelerating Impact on the Labor Market The project coincides with a growing body of research documenting AI's real-world effects on employment. Anthropic's recently published "Labor Market Impacts of AI" report measures 75 percent task coverage for computer programmers, with customer service representatives, data entry clerks, and financial analysts close behind. While no systematic spike in unemployment has been observed, hiring of younger workers into AI-exposed roles has begun to slow - suggesting that the entry points into these careers are narrowing even as the roles themselves persist. Meanwhile, infrastructure security company StrongDM has published its "Software Factory" framework, in which a three-person AI team built a production system where humans define intent and AI agents generate, validate, and ship code autonomously - without human code review. The system is currently delivering production security software. Additionally, the open-source project OpenClaw - a personal AI agent framework built by a single developer - has accumulated over 260,000 GitHub stars in three months. The framework enables users to deploy autonomous agent swarms that process emails, manage calendars, scan industry news, and execute development tasks in parallel. These developments point to a near-term future in which consumers, customers, and employees interact with digital services primarily through AI intermediaries rather than directly. Three Human Qualities That Will Define Future Hiring Drawing on both the Voight-Kampff build experience and the emerging research, Hottelet identifies three qualities that organizations should prioritize in hiring decisions: Creativity: The Ability to Develop New Innovations. Building the Voight-Kampff machine required no knowledge of Three.js, WebGL, or JavaScript - the AI handled all procedural execution. What it could not supply was the original vision: the concept of a specific prop rendered in a specific way with behaviors that would make it feel alive. StrongDM's Software Factory still requires humans to define intent. As AI covers the execution layer of knowledge work, the capacity to imagine what does not yet exist becomes the differentiating skill. Humanity: The Ability to Communicate Innovations Effectively. The most demanding aspect of the build process was not technical complexity but communication - describing desired outcomes with sufficient precision for the AI to execute, while remaining flexible enough to adapt when results diverged from expectations. This same capacity underlies effective project briefs, team alignment, and the scenario definitions that drive autonomous software factories. In a world of agent swarms, the ability to articulate intent clearly - to both humans and machines - becomes the critical bottleneck skill. Tenacity: The Drive to Apply These Qualities Relentlessly. The 90-minute build involved continuous iterative problem-solving - each cycle a micro-negotiation between vision and output. Anthropic's research documents an enormous gap between AI's theoretical capability and its actual deployment. StrongDM's benchmark - that organizations not spending $1,000 per engineer per day on AI tokens have room to improve - tells the same story from the supply side. The tools exist, but consistent application remains rare. Creativity without tenacity remains conceptual; communication without tenacity produces briefs that never ship. "Stop hiring for tool proficiency - the tools change faster than anyone can track, and AI is better at using them anyway," said Hottelet. "Start hiring for the person who walks in with an idea that makes you lean forward, who can describe it so precisely you can see it, and who will not stop until it's real. Creativity, humanity, and tenacity - in the age of AI, these are not soft skills. They are the only hard skills that matter." About Pete Hottelet and Omni Consumer Products Pete Hottelet is the founder of Omni Consumer Products, a 20-year conceptual art project dedicated to "defictionalizing" objects from popular culture. He is also a team member behind Detroit's 10-foot bronze RoboCop statue - a 15-year collaboration permanently installed in Eastern Market in December 2025.
Delinea acquries StrongDM to Secure access to IT infrastructure. Delinea announces the acquisition of StrongDM to enhance its privileged access management platform, offering just-in-time access for IT infrastructure and improving cybersecurity for human and non-human identities. Delinea today extended the reach of its platform for securing identities and credentials to now provide support for artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The post Delinea Adds Ability to Secure AI Agent Identities appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has been indexed from Security Boulevard Read the original article: Delinea...
Delinea, a provider of identity security solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire StrongDM, a universal access management company focused on modern engineering and AI-driven environments. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition combines Delinea's enterprise privileged access management capabilities with StrongDM's just-in-time runtime authorisation and developer-focused access model. The merged platform aims to secure privileged access in real-time across cloud-native, hybrid and on-premises environments as AI adoption accelerates and non-human identities outnumber human users. The combined solution will enable enterprises to transition towards a zero standing privilege model whilst maintaining existing infrastructure investments. StrongDM's technology will extend Delinea's Platform powered by Iris AI to deliver integrated policy, governance and audit capabilities that enforce least privilege access at the moment of action.
Delinea acquries StrongDM to secure access to IT infrastructure. Delinea, a provider of a privileged access management (PAM) platform, today revealed it will acquire StrongDM, a provider of a platform for authorizing access to IT infrastructure. The core technology developed by StrongDM is used mainly by DevOps and engineering teams to programmatically reduce cybersecurity risks by eliminating the need to grant long-term access to IT infrastructure. Instead, authorization to access IT infrastructure is granted on a just-in-time basis to both human administrators and non-human identities attached to third-party applications. Phil Calvin, chief product officer for Delinea, said StrongDM extends the scope of the existing identity security portfolio to IT infrastructure to provide a spectrum of offerings for securing identities across a continuum of scenarios. Existing Delinea offerings address the need to secure sessions by adding an ability to secure identity access in near real time, which, in addition to being applied to IT infrastructure, can also be extended to non-human identities such as artificial intelligence (AI) agents, noted Calvin. Managing identities in the age of AI agents will prove to be especially challenging for organizations that will soon be deploying thousands of them running on a wide range of heterogeneous platforms, he added. Unfortunately, most cybersecurity teams, in the absence of any centralized method for managing identity, are usually unable to see what privileges have been assigned. It's usually only during the forensics phase of a breach that they discover privileges were overprovisioned. The Delinea platform makes it possible for cybersecurity teams to instead review privileges to ensure the blast radius of any potential breach is limited, noted Calvin. Once the deal is formally closed, Delinea will begin working on integrating the two product portfolios, which include a Delinea Iris AI framework that identifies threats and applies guardrails in real time. Collectively, the Delinea portfolio will now support both ephemeral and credential-based access models while enabling a deliberate transition toward a zero standing privilege (ZSP) model. For all intents and purposes, identity is now the perimeter that cybersecurity teams are expected to defend. The challenge is that many individuals often have multiple identities associated with different job functions. More challenging still, many of the individuals accessing applications and services are not employees but rather temporary contractors. Cybercriminals are, of course, trying to steal as many credentials as possible. In many cases, cybercriminals log into applications much like any other normal user for months before starting to exfiltrate data and inject malware. Many organizations might not even realize credentials have been stolen until months after the fact. It's not clear what will be needed to encourage more organizations to unify the management of access and authorization in a way that is tied to specific sets of credentials, but the sooner they do, the more likely the overall cybersecurity posture of the organization will improve. In the meantime, cybersecurity teams should assume that most of the credentials being used have been compromised, which, at the very least, means they should be regularly rotated as part of a larger effort to manage the lifecycle of both human and non-human identities.
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Industries
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$110.1M
Headquarters
Burlingame, California
Founded
2015
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