Delinea vs Britive
Delinea governs credentials. Britive determines whether they should exist at all.
With a strong background in on-prem infrastructures, the demands of cloud IAM, SaaS permissions, and autonomous AI agents have highlighted the gaps left behind with vault-based access approaches.
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Architected for the Cloud. Not the Vault.
Legacy platforms rely on a fragmented mix of password vaults and connection proxies. It’s an approach that creates operational friction and struggles to govern high-velocity cloud and AI workloads.
Britive eliminates that friction entirely. By provisioning ephemeral access dynamically via native cloud APIs, Britive secures your hybrid enterprise natively, allowing security to move at the speed of the cloud.
One platform. No proxies or agents. No complex integrations.
Built to Scale
Delinea’s infrastructure scales with operational overhead; more environments mean more connectors and more maintenance. Britive is agentless, operating via native cloud APIs. New environments inherit policy automatically without you deploying a single piece of infrastructure.
Lower Cost of Ownership by Design
Delinea deployments often require significant professional services and per-resource configuration. Britive integrates directly into your existing DevOps workflows without the need for additional modules or connectors for different parts of your environment.
Zero Standing Privilege
Delinea protects the key, but the "door" remains unlocked. A compromised identity still carries its persistent permissions. Britive ensures that when a session ends, the permission itself is destroyed. There is no standing access to exploit.
The Roadmap to Zero Standing Privileges (Without the Disruption)
Step 1: Identify your standing privilege blindspots.
Traditional vault and proxy architectures were built for on-premise networks, often leaving significant gaps as you expand into the cloud. Start by auditing your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Look specifically at your cloud IAM entitlements, SaaS administrative roles, and non-human identities (like CI/CD pipelines). If these identities rely on static, always-on credentials, that is your primary standing risk.
Step 2: Deploy where legacy architecture struggles the most.
The easiest place to start is exactly where vaults create the most friction: the cloud and developer workflows. Because Britive is an API-first platform, you can deploy it across your cloud environments in weeks without heavy professional services or new infrastructure. Using our Terraform provider to manage policy as code and the PyBritive CLI for pipeline scripts, you can enforce Just-in-Time (JIT) access natively. The result? Zero standing privileges in the cloud, and zero workflow disruption for your developers.
Step 3: Unify under a single policy engine.
Once your cloud and automated pipelines are secure, you can gradually expand Britive’s ephemeral access model across your SaaS, hybrid, and remaining on-prem environments. The end state is a completely unified architecture: human, non-human, and agentic AI identities all governed by a single policy engine. You eliminate the integration overhead of fragmented tools and gain a single, comprehensive audit trail that makes proving compliance (SOC 2, PCI DSS, DORA) continuous and automatic.
Delinea vs Britive
Close the architectural gap that opens with vault-based acces management.
Delinea vs Britive
Close the architectural gap that opens with vault-based acces management.
Delinea
Britive
Core Architecture
Core access control relies on storing static secrets in a centralized vault and often routing sessions through proxies.
Single platform. Control plane authorization. One policy model. One audit trail. No proxy dependency.
Cloud IAM
Provides deep visibility and risk scoring for cloud entitlements, but access remediation often defaults back to vaulting static cloud credentials.
Analyzes cloud entitlements across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI with the ability to address over-permissioning by replacing standing access.
SaaS Coverage
Primarily manages SaaS access by vaulting shared admin credentials or relying on standard SSO/MFA step-ups.
Native JIT for all major SaaS apps, including Snowflake, Salesforce, Atlassian, ServiceNow, GitHub, and 100+ more.
Non-Human Identities
Handles NHIs by storing static API keys and service accounts in the vault, forcing automated pipelines to execute programmatic "checkouts."
First-class. OIDC federation, JIT per pipeline run, full NHI registry and lifecycle governance.
Agentic AI
Relies heavily on identity threat detection (ITDR) to flag risky or anomalous AI behavior after the access event has occurred.
Evaluates AI agent access in real time. Utilizes MCP gateway and human-in-the-loop approval for additional security enforced in real-time.
Developer Workflow
More admin focused, forces developers to break their flow, log into a PAM portal, and check out a secret from a vault before they can execute a task.
Operates seamlessly within native developer tools, including PyBritive CLI, Terraform, and kubectl. Developers request access, get a token, and keep working.
Multi-Cloud Security
Achieving deep PAM enforcement across multiple clouds requires deploying and managing proxy and vault infrastructure closer to those environments.
Grants federated, ephemeral access across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes without deploying additional infrastructure, for reduced overhead.
Security Enforcement
Uses identity threat detection to spot anomalies, relying on alerts and automated webhooks to rotate compromised vault passwords after the fact.
Uses the Shared Signals Framework to evaluate risk continuously, instantly killing active cloud sessions mid-flight if endpoint risk is detected.
What's your current PAM stack actually covering and what's left ungoverned alongside it?
The credential-centric model was built for a world of static servers and password rotations. Cloud roles and machine identities don't work that way. Organizations closing their risk gap are adding a runtime authorization layer on top of their existing vaulting.
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FAQ
What do you mean by “ephemeral JIT access”?
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Ephemeral JIT means the privilege itself does not exist until it is requested. Access is created at runtime, scoped to the task, and removed when the task ends. Nothing stands by before or after.
How is this different from traditional JIT access?
Traditional JIT limits when a credential can be used. The privileged role still exists. Britive limits when privilege exists. If the work is not happening, the privilege is not there.
How does this work with Agentic AI and autonomous workflows?
Agentic AI needs access that is dynamic, task-scoped, and short-lived. Britive treats AI agents as first-class identities and applies the same access model used for humans and automation. Privilege is created at runtime for a specific action, scoped by policy, and removed immediately after. Agents never hold standing access or long-lived credentials, even as they act autonomously.
Does this work for machine identities and automation?
Yes. The same access model and policies apply to pipelines, service accounts, and automated workflows.
Can Britive integrate with ___?
Yes! Britive is API-first and integration-friendly, allowing seamless out-of-the-box integrations with cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), SSO & Identity Providers (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, Ping Identity), SIEM & Logging Tools (Splunk, Datadog, etc.) and DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, etc.).
You can find a starting list of our integrations here.
Does Britive allow the import of privileged accounts for other systems?
Yes, Britive offers the ability to import privileged accounts from other systems for seamless integration and centralized management. Privileged accounts from cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as on-premises systems, can be imported into Britive. Automated discovery simplifies the process, identifying existing accounts for streamlined integration.
Does the Britive solution offer any "break glass" access?
Yes, Britive offers "break glass" access capabilities, including support for managing emergency access to critical accounts such as AWS root accounts. This ensures operational continuity and secure access during emergencies. This includes strict access policies, logging, and enforcement of strong authentication methods for enhanced security.
Break glass access is also strictly monitored and governed by approval workflows, ensuring that usage is authorized and fully auditable.
Does Britive support session recording?
Yes, Britive's session recording capability is lightweight and easy to deploy for selective monitoring of RDP and SSH sessions.
Do I still need a vault?
Britive offers vaults where static secrets are unavoidable. For cloud and SaaS privileged access, Britive issues ephemeral privileges directly and does not depend on stored admin credentials.
What about audits and compliance?
Every request, decision, and expiration is logged. You can see who had access, to what, and for how long without reconstruction.
Case studies
Britive in the Real World
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Financial Services Company Streamlines Access Management
Forbes Saves Costs & Removes Standing Privileges to Align with Zero Trust Security
Fortune 500 Retail Giant Eliminates Standing Access Across Growing Cloud Footprint
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Privileged human identities managed
Static Privileges Eliminated
Static privileges eliminated across all cloud providers
Non-human identities access managed
Identity profiles managed in GCP
Total on and off-boarding time, reduced from 3 days