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Investigate a risky identity

This is the payoff of the get-started path: taking a high-risk identity and understanding why it's risky and what to do about it.

Find a candidate

  1. From the dashboard, filter identities by severity: high or critical.
  2. Sort by risk so the most pressing identities are at the top.
  3. Open the top identity to start the investigation.

Understand the risk

On the identity's detail view, review:

  • Correlated accounts — every account Mesh matched to this identity across your connected systems. Look for orphaned, duplicate, or unexpected accounts.
  • Entitlements — the access this identity holds. Watch for excessive or toxic combinations of privileges.
  • Risk signals — the specific conditions the risk engines flagged, each with a severity and an explanation of the contributing factors.

Decide and act

  • Confirm whether the flagged access is expected for this person's role.
  • Note remediation steps (revoke access, disable a stale account, enforce stronger authentication) and route them through your normal access-management process.
  • Re-check the identity after the next collection to confirm the signal clears.

You're up and running

You've connected an IdP, pulled in a source system, oriented yourself in the dashboard, and investigated a real risk. From here: