Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership and technology integration with privileged access management firm Delinea Inc. that connects the Commvault Cloud platform with Delinea’s Secret Server to help joint customers strengthen credential security, support compliance initiatives and streamline data recovery.

The new partnership seeks to help with the issue whereby securing user credentials is being compounded by the proliferation of nonhuman and machine identities used by applications, scripts and automated services. With a growing number of security incidents stemming from compromised privileged identities, Commvault argues, bad actors know that once credentials are granted or stolen and privileged access is achieved, the door is open to launch attacks that can go unnoticed for some time.

By teaming up with Delinea, Commvault is extending new privileged access management capabilities into the Commvault Cloud platform to help customers centralize credential management, including support to manage and rotate credentials for backup environments from a single platform. The partnership will also allow customers to securely store, rotate and govern the credentials within a centralized secrets vault to reduce operational complexity and eliminate unmanaged or orphaned accounts.

Other features delivered through the partnership include just-in-time access with the ability to automatically issue temporary credentials for each backup or restore job with access revoked upon completion to minimize misuse and support for audit and compliance capabilities, including enforcing least privilege access.

Collectively, Commvault said, the capabilities deliver significant benefits, including reduced risk of downtime, stronger support for compliance objectives, increased IT efficiency and faster threat response.

“True cyber resilience depends on both the ability to recover data and the security of the recovery process itself,” said Delinea President Chris Kelly. “By extending our privileged access management capabilities to Commvault Cloud, we are advancing identity security, reducing the risks of manual backup credential management, and helping to ensure that recovery systems remain trustworthy and ready when needed the most.”

The Commvault Cloud integration with Delinea is available globally today to joint customers at no extra cost.

“Our integration with Delinea strengthens customers’ ability to manage credentials and limit privilege misuse, which can help protect against rapidly evolving identity-driven attacks while advancing unified resilience,” noted Alan Atkinson, chief business development officer at Commvault.

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