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Delinea report: India's AI security confidence outpaces identity governance reality. Delinea, the identity security control plane that secures access across human, machine, and AI identities, published new research showing that Indian organisations lead globally in confidence around AI security readiness, despite significant gaps in identity governance. According to the report, "Uncovering the Hidden Risks of the AI Race," 96.8% of Indian respondents said their identity security posture is prepared to support AI-driven automation at scale. Yet 57.6% cite AI-related environments as the area of least confidence for identity governance, the highest globally. The survey of more than 2,000 IT decision-makers across seven countries found that India also faces one of the steepest shadow AI challenges. Some 68% of Indian respondents said they had discovered unsanctioned AI tools or agents accessing company systems sometimes or often in the past 12 months, compared with a global average of 53%. Only 27.6% said they can detect shadow AI in real time. "India is one of the most enthusiastic adopters of agentic AI in the world, but our research shows that Indian organisations are also accepting more identity risk to fuel that speed than almost any other country we surveyed," said Anand (Jude) Kannabiran, Vice President, Asia, Delinea. "The gap between confidence and governance reality is widest here, and that is precisely where attackers will look to gain a foothold. The organisations that will win in India's AI era are those that treat identity governance not as a brake on innovation, but as the foundation that makes sustainable innovation possible." The AI security confidence paradox India illustrates the global AI security confidence paradox in its most concentrated form. 51.6% of Indian respondents say they are "very prepared," compared with a global average of 35.9%. Indian respondents also rate their confidence in discovering NHIs with access to production systems at 90.4%, the highest of any country. Only 7% of Indian respondents report no measurable business impact from identity-related friction in the past 12 months, the joint-lowest figure of any country, with 46% citing delayed AI initiatives and 45.2% citing increased operational costs. Additional key findings from the report include: * Pressure to loosen controls is highest in India: 93.6% percent of Indian respondents report organisational pressure on security teams to weaken privileged access controls to support AI-driven automation, the highest net pressure of all seven countries surveyed. * Speed wins over security: 43% say that when security requirements conflict with business speed, the most common outcome involves granting standing privileges, bypassing controls via shadow use, or temporarily disabling controls. * Standing access remains the norm: 42% of Indian respondents say static, long-lived credentials are the primary way access is enforced for NHI and AI agent identities, tied with the United States as the highest globally. As AI agents begin accessing critical infrastructure and enterprise data, organizations need stronger ways to discover all identities, manage privileges, and audit activity across humans, machines, and AI agents. Delinea delivers a unified approach by combining cryptographic identity, contextual access controls, JIT runtime authorization, and full session visibility to ensure AI-driven automation operates securely and transparently. By providing a single access experience across infrastructure with built-in auditing and least-privilege enforcement, Delinea enables organizations to adopt AI without introducing unmanaged access risk.

Delinea, an identity security company, has appointed Scott Goree as Senior Vice President of Channel and Alliances to lead its global partner strategy and accelerate partner-led growth. Goree will launch a next-generation partner programme and expand the company's ecosystem. Goree brings 20 years of experience building partner ecosystems in the security and infrastructure industry. He previously served as SVP of Partners and Commercial Sales at Optiv and was the first global channel chief at Skyhigh Security, where he significantly increased channel-sourced revenue. He has also held senior channel leadership roles at Nutanix, Pure Storage and Cisco. At Delinea, Goree will focus on building a unified partner model, strengthening enablement and ensuring partners can support customers modernising privileged access and securing cloud entitlements.

Delinea unveils new AI security capabilities with StrongDM. Delinea has acquired StrongDM to strengthen identity security and universal access management for modern engineering, DevOps, and AI-driven environments. Delinea, a pioneering provider of solutions for securing human and machine identities through centralized authorization, has completed its acquisition of StrongDM, the universal access management company purpose-built for modern engineering, DevOps, and AI-driven environments. As enterprises scale agentic AI and automation, privileged access is increasingly required by non-human identities (NHIs) that operate autonomously across hybrid and cloud-native environments, introducing risks that static, credential-based models were never designed to govern. By combining Delinea's leadership in enterprise privileged access management (PAM) with StrongDM's just-in-time (JIT) runtime authorization, organizations can discover every identity, reduce risk where it matters, and enforce least-privilege access at the moment of action, making Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) achievable in practice. "Standing and hard-coded privileges remain one of the largest sources of risk in modern, AI-driven environments," said Art Gilliland, CEO at Delinea. "Security teams have historically had to balance between strong identity governance policies and maintaining developer and operational speed. By bringing StrongDM's runtime authorization capabilities to the Delinea Platform, we're empowering rapid and secure AI adoption for our customers." The combined Delinea and StrongDM platform brings together leading enterprise PAM and runtime authorization into a unified identity security control plane powered by Delinea Iris AI, enabling real-time policy evaluation and governance of privileged actions taken by both human and non-human identities across modern infrastructure. Together, Delinea and StrongDM deliver: * Discovery and governance of privileged access for every human and non-human identity across infrastructure, databases, containers, and CI/CD pipelines * Reduced exposure to credential theft, phishing, and software supply chain attacks by minimizing persistent credentials * Real-time governance of privileged actions taken by AI agents and other non-human identities through centralized visibility, auditability, and enforcement "The rise of agentic AI and non-human identities is accelerating operational workflows to machine speed, exposing the limits of static privilege models," said Emanuel Figueroa, Senior Research Analyst at IDC. "By incorporating StrongDM's JIT runtime capabilities into the Delinea Platform, organizations can extend Zero Trust to the precise moment of action and advance toward ZSP across both traditional and cloud-native environments." Raghu Valipireddy, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at Axos Financial, said: "I'm genuinely excited about the possibilities of a unified platform. Delinea has done an excellent job securing privileged access across traditional infrastructure for nearly a decade at Axos, while StrongDM solved justintime access in innovative ways for modern database and cloud environments. When Delinea articulated a vision to bring these capabilities together, it immediately resonated with how we operate and where we're headed. The combined platform will significantly strengthen our security posture by enabling continuous discovery, governance, and realtime enforcement of leastprivilege access across critical systems and data, which supports our AI initiatives and accelerates our move toward ZSP in alignment with business priorities." With this acquisition, Delinea establishes identity as the control plane for modern security, helping to ensure every privileged action taken by a human or machine identity is evaluated and authorized in real time, enabling organizations to eliminate standing privilege across AI-driven environments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Published March 09, 2026