# Delinea

> Delinea is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that builds identity and privileged access management (PAM) software. Formed in 2021 from the merger of PAM veterans Thycotic and Centrify and rebranded as Delinea in 2022, the company secures the credentials, secrets, and privileged accounts that human users, machines, applications, and - increasingly - AI agents use to reach an organization's most sensitive systems. Its flagship Secret Server vault, Privilege Manager, DevOps Secrets Vault, and the cloud-native Delinea Platform are used by thousands of enterprises worldwide to enforce least privilege, rotate passwords, record sessions, and detect identity-based threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Art Gilliland (CEO (led the merged company; formerly CEO of Centrify))
- **Team size:** ~1,400 employees
- **Products:** Secret Server, Privilege Manager, DevOps Secrets Vault, Delinea Platform, Connection Manager
- **Notable:** Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (published Oct 13, 2025) and by Forrester, KuppingerCole, and Frost & Sullivan., Grew annual recurring revenue 25%+ year over year to ~$250M by the end of 2022, adding 1,300+ new customers., Completed a rapid platform build-out through acquisitions of Authomize (ITDR/CIEM), Fastpath (IGA), and StrongDM (just-in-time access).

## Products & services

- **Secret Server** — Enterprise-grade credential vault that discovers, stores, and rotates passwords, secrets, and keys, with session recording and check-out workflows. Available cloud-hosted or on-premises.
- **Privilege Manager** — Endpoint privilege management for Windows, Mac, and Linux - application control, least-privilege enforcement, and ransomware protection on workstations and servers.
- **DevOps Secrets Vault** — High-speed, platform-agnostic vault for secrets, SSH keys, certificates, API keys, and tokens used by applications, databases, and DevOps toolchains.
- **Delinea Platform** — Cloud-native identity security platform unifying PAM, identity governance, ITDR, and CIEM with visibility, posture, and control across cloud and SaaS.
- **Connection Manager** — Secure session broker for RDP and SSH connections with session recording and credential injection.
- **Server Suite / Cloud Suite** — Privilege management and centralized authentication for Unix and Linux environments, including sudo policy management and session recording.
- **Fastpath (Identity Governance)** — Identity governance and administration (IGA) and access-rights management, cloud-based access orchestration used by leading audit and consultancy firms.

## Achievements

- Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (published Oct 13, 2025) and by Forrester, KuppingerCole, and Frost & Sullivan.
- Grew annual recurring revenue 25%+ year over year to ~$250M by the end of 2022, adding 1,300+ new customers.
- Completed a rapid platform build-out through acquisitions of Authomize (ITDR/CIEM), Fastpath (IGA), and StrongDM (just-in-time access).
- Secret Server has secured enterprise credentials continuously since its 2005 release.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Completed acquisition of StrongDM, adding just-in-time runtime authorization and a developer-first access model to the Delinea Platform.
- **2026-01** — Announced definitive agreement to acquire StrongDM to redefine identity security for the agentic AI era.
- **2025-10** — Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management.
- **2024-04** — Completed acquisition of Fastpath, adding identity governance and administration (IGA) to the platform.
- **2024-02** — Announced agreement to acquire Fastpath to combine PAM with identity governance.
- **2023** — Silver Lake acquired a majority stake, valuing Delinea at approximately $2.2 billion; Authomize acquired to add ITDR and CIEM capabilities.

## Links

- Website: https://delinea.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/delinea
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/delineainc
- GitHub: https://github.com/DelineaXPM
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Delinea
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/DelineaInc/

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Last updated: 2026-07-15