Delinea Iris AI

Delinea Iris AI is an artificial intelligence layer embedded across the Delinea Platform that augments privileged access management (PAM) workflows with contextual recommendations, natural-language policy authoring, and automated secret discovery. Announced in 2024 and generally available as part of the Delinea Platform in 2025, Iris AI targets IT security teams managing large-scale privileged credential estates who need to reduce standing access, enforce least-privilege policies, and respond faster to anomalous sessions.

Unlike bolt-on AI chatbots, Iris AI operates inside the PAM control plane itself. It ingests telemetry from Secret Server, Privilege Manager, and Server PAM to surface risk-ranked insights—flagging dormant service accounts, over-permissioned vaults, and unusual checkout patterns before they become incidents. Administrators interact through a conversational interface that can translate plain-English requests ('show me all SQL Server accounts unused for 90 days') into platform actions, reducing the need to navigate complex policy editors.

Key capabilities include AI-assisted policy generation, where security teams describe an intent and Iris drafts the corresponding access policy with scope, duration, and approval chain pre-filled; anomaly scoring that continuously evaluates session metadata against baseline behavior models; and guided remediation workflows that walk junior analysts through incident response steps. Delinea reports that customers in early-access programs reduced policy creation time by up to 80 percent and cut mean time to investigate suspicious sessions by roughly 60 percent compared to manual triage.

The Delinea Platform protects over 4 billion secrets across its customer base, serves more than 15,000 organizations worldwide, and has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management for multiple consecutive years. Iris AI leverages this telemetry foundation, meaning its recommendations improve with the volume and diversity of access data flowing through the platform.

Delinea Iris AI is delivered as a SaaS-native component of the Delinea Platform and requires no separate deployment. It is available to customers on supported Delinea Platform subscription tiers and is designed to complement—not replace—existing PAM policies and human approval gates. Enterprise pricing is quote-based and scoped by the number of managed secrets, endpoints, and platform modules licensed.