A SaaS-first PAM platform providing privileged session management, credential vaulting, and least-privilege enforcement for organizations that need PAM without heavy on-premises infrastructure.
Delinea provides privileged access management delivered as a SaaS platform, with modular products covering server access, endpoint least-privilege, DevOps secrets, and remote access. Like all PAM platforms, Delinea is optimized for human privileged sessions: administrators, DevOps engineers, and vendors who need controlled, audited access to sensitive systems. The gap appears when the access request comes from a workload or AI agent rather than a human. Delinea’s session-based model does not extend to the scale and speed of machine-to-machine authentication, and workloads still require a bootstrap credential to retrieve anything from Delinea’s vault. Aembit governs the non-human side of the same environment: workloads, AI agents, and CI/CD pipelines that authenticate to sensitive systems without sessions, without stored credentials, and at machine speed. The two tools operate at different layers and are both present in mature enterprise environments.
Aembit does not replace Delinea. Delinea governs human privileged sessions and endpoint access, a problem Aembit was not designed to solve.
Organizations running Delinea can use Aembit alongside their existing investment without replacing it. Organizations running both get:
– A unified compliance record. Aembit’s attestation-based audit logs for non-human access can feed the same SIEM and compliance workflows that Delinea session recordings already flow into, covering SOC 2, NIST SP 800-207, and PCI access control requirements across both human and non-human identities.
– Closed lateral movement paths. Workloads governed by Aembit no longer require static credentials stored in code or config, removing the credential sprawl that PAM cannot govern.
– Parallel governance models. Delinea continues to govern human privileged sessions through its SaaS products. Aembit governs machine-speed workload access with cryptographic attestation and policy enforcement.
Delinea and Aembit address different sides of the same privileged access problem.
Delinea governs human privileged sessions: an admin checking out credentials from Secret Server to access a production database, a developer connecting through Delinea’s remote access controls, an operator managing privileged endpoints through Privilege Manager. Its SaaS delivery model makes that governance faster to deploy and easier to maintain than on-premises PAM alternatives, but the underlying model — session-based, human-centric, credential-checkout — is the same.
Aembit governs the access that Delinea was not built for: the microservices, AI agents, and pipelines that authenticate to those same production systems without human involvement. These workloads have no session to record, no checkout workflow, and no approval step. They authenticate at machine speed, continuously, and they need credentials injected at the network layer rather than retrieved through an SDK or API call.
The credential problem applies here too. When workloads need access to systems that Delinea vaults, the workload still needs a bootstrap credential to retrieve the vaulted secret. That bootstrap credential — stored in config, environment variables, or application code — is what attackers target when PAM controls the human entry point but non-human identities remain ungoverned. Aembit eliminates the bootstrap through cryptographic workload attestation.
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