Delinea Inc. is leading the charge in privileged access management solutions, focusing on identity access management and the challenges of interconnected systems in the evolving digital landscape.

As companies increasingly transition to cloud-based infrastructures, managing the surge in identities has become a critical concern. This is an important shift, especially considering the explosion in identities that businesses need to manage with the move to the cloud, according to Art Gilliland (pictured, right), chief executive officer of Delinea.

Delinea’s Phil Calvin and Art Gilliland talk to theCUBE about privileged access management.

“I think what’s happening in the marketplace is you see this massive move from customers to the cloud, like SaaS applications is a big way,” he said. “If you look at our company, almost the entire infrastructure of our company is run in SaaS. What that’s done for customers, a huge explosion in the number of identities they need to manage. Being able to find them and manage them is a big risk for them.”

Gilliland and Phil Calvin (left), chief product officer of Delinea spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante at the RSA Conference, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Delinea is focused on simplifying the chaos in the security industry by addressing the challenges of managing interconnected systems and the increasing number of identities. (* Disclosure below.)

Delinea’s focus on privileged access management and latest technologies

Identity is the future of security, with a shift to cloud-based infrastructure and a focus on authorization. Artificial intelligence investigations are used to detect anomalies in user sessions, and Delinea isolates AI use to customer data with heavy-duty training and refinement, Calvin explained.

“Your security focus goes away from managing bits and bytes and managing networks and all that kind of stuff. The perimeter is no longer the perimeter of your VPN or your environment. The perimeter is what you’re authorized to do,” he said. “The trends that we’re definitely seeing, we’ve got some very interesting investigations into AI. One, in particular, is we have the ability inside PAM to record the session that the user’s actually done. And so you could imagine thousands of hours of recordings. We can actually apply an AI model to those sessions and get the anomaly detected down to maybe 10 hours.”

The use of AI at Delinea is isolated to customer data, with heavy duty training followed by refinement of the modeling, all enabled by the cloud, Calvin added.

“In our case, in the LLM that we’re using, we’re very focused on how we’re training that model, which is really where the interesting thing comes out,” Calvin said. “And then you build good software around it. Building software is not about a technical buzzword, it’s about the execution and diligence when you’re doing it and really enabled by the cloud native investment that we talked about.”

In terms of the latest technologies, being cloud-native is not just about putting things in Kubernetes, it requires hard work and understanding how to build platforms, Gilliland concluded.

“We literally started over, and for 18 months, we essentially rebuilt the guts of our product after the acquisition. You take a sideways step in terms of your innovation on your legacy products,” he said. “What it buys you in the future is being able to…deploy code in 30 minutes from the time the engineer finishes through all the QA and everything because it’s built around automation, and your competitors just cannot do that. Unless you take that energy and really diligently rearchitect, you cannot be cloud-native.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the RSA Conference:

(* Disclosure: Delinea Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Delinea nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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