Delinea announced its participation at GITEX GLOBAL 2026. Under the theme “From Access to Action: Governing AI at Runtime”, the company will demonstrate how organisations can put enforceable controls behind their AI ambitions, reducing the risk of rogue actions, while giving businesses the confidence to deploy autonomous agents across critical systems.
In recent research, 98% of UAE respondents admitted that their organisations had experienced confirmed or suspected instances in which an AI tool accessed sensitive data beyond what its task required. Concerningly, only 16% said they could immediately revoke an AI tool’s credentials and terminate its session, highlighting the gap between granting access and retaining control. These findings come as regional frameworks, including Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority Essential Cybersecurity Controls (NCA ECC) and UAE government cybersecurity standards, reinforce the need for effective, auditable access controls. Through its participation, Delinea will show how runtime authorisation can help organisations apply these principles to autonomous agents by enforcing policy at the moment of action.
“This year has challenged regional organisations to build resilience against unexpected disruption while responding to AI-enabled threats and the shift from conversational AI to agents that act across business systems,” said Mortada Ayad, VP – META, Delinea. “These monumental shifts create opportunities to automate more complex work, but also make control over autonomous actions essential. GITEX’s December timing gives leaders the opportunity to reflect on these pressures and decide what they need to move forward. Identity security and runtime authorisation give them a foundation for that transition by empowering them to know who or what is acting, limit actions to the task, and retain the ability to intervene.”
Runtime authorisation will be at the centre of Delinea’s product demonstrations, showing how the Delinea Platform brings together enterprise privileged access management and just-in-time controls for cloud-native and DevOps environments. At dedicated demo stations, visitors will explore Secret Server, privileged access management and identity threat detection, to understand how to discover identities, assess their access and reduce reliance on standing credentials. The platform’s Cedar-based policy engine enforces least privilege throughout the session, translating access policies into controls that limit what an identity can do and for how long.
Building on these capabilities, the demonstrations will show how runtime authorisation extends control to AI agents working across databases, SSH hosts, Kubernetes clusters and cloud consoles. Visitors will see how task-scoped access and real-time policy enforcement can allow, block or escalate an action before it executes, helping address the excessive access identified in Delinea’s research. The focus of these product showcases will be on helping teams govern agent activity, as it happens, alongside the credential and session controls needed to intervene when access must end.
“As CISOs and IT decision makers shape their 2027 budgets, GITEX is an opportunity to translate the year’s lessons into practical conversations with security partners such as Delinea. It’s not just an exercise in defence, but an opportunity to explore how security can enable the next growth stage of the business. If leaders are being asked to deliver agentic AI outcomes, they need to understand how to give agents enough freedom to do useful work while retaining the ability to govern their actions. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our stand and helping them turn those ambitions into a practical plan for secure AI adoption,” said Ayad.
Delinea will be present at stand H9-C30 during GITEX GLOBAL, taking place from 8–11 December 2026 at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City Dubai.
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