Commvault has announced a strategic partnership and technology integration with Delinea, a recognized leader in privileged access management (PAM). The new integration connects the Commvault Cloud platform with Delinea Secret Server, enabling organizations to significantly strengthen credential security, improve auditability, and support regulatory compliance requirements.
As credential-based attacks continue to rise, securing user credentials has become increasingly complex—especially with the rapid growth of non-human identities, including application accounts, scripts, service accounts, and automated workloads. According to KPMG’s UAE Cybersecurity Survey 2025, nearly 37% of cybersecurity incidents in the Middle East involved compromised or misused privileged identities, highlighting the urgent need for stronger identity and access controls.
Unified Credential Security Across Backup and Recovery Environments
Through this partnership, Commvault extends advanced privileged access management capabilities directly into the Commvault Cloud platform. The integration allows organizations to centralize credential storage, governance, and rotation for backup and recovery environments using a secure, unified secrets vault.
By eliminating unmanaged, hard-coded, or orphaned credentials—often prime targets for attackers—the solution reduces operational complexity while significantly lowering the risk of credential theft and privilege misuse.
Just-in-Time Access and Least-Privilege Enforcement
The integrated solution introduces Just-in-Time (JIT) privileged access, ensuring that temporary credentials are automatically issued only when required for backup or restore operations and immediately revoked upon job completion. This approach minimizes the attack surface and prevents long-lived credentials from being exploited.
In addition, the integration enforces least-privilege access controls, ensuring users and systems receive only the permissions required to perform specific tasks—no more, no less.
Improved Auditability and Compliance Readiness
By generating comprehensive audit logs and maintaining full visibility into identity usage, the Commvault–Delinea integration strengthens compliance readiness across regulated industries. Organizations can more easily support requirements related to SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and other global data protection and cybersecurity regulations.
These capabilities help enterprises reduce downtime risk, improve threat detection and response, and increase overall IT and security operational efficiency.
“Commvault unifies data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery on one platform and continues to expand its value through strategic integrations. Our integration with Delinea helps customers better manage credentials, limit privilege misuse, and protect against rapidly evolving identity-driven cyber threats,” said Alan Atkinson, Chief Business Development Officer at Commvault.
“True cyber resilience requires not only the ability to recover data but also ensuring the recovery process itself is secure. By extending our privileged access management capabilities to Commvault Cloud, we are strengthening identity security, reducing the risks of manual credential management, and helping ensure recovery systems remain trusted and ready when they are needed most,” said Chris Kelly, President at Delinea.
The Commvault Cloud integration with Delinea Secret Server is available globally at no additional cost for customers. This partnership further expands Commvault’s growing security ecosystem, reinforcing its commitment to helping enterprises remain resilient in an environment of escalating identity-based cyber threats.
