# Overview

Axiad Mesh is an Enterprise Identity Risk Management platform that correlates
identities across your systems, assesses risk, and tracks cryptographic assets.
It works with your existing security infrastructure to provide a high-level,
tailored visualization of your expansive organization.

![An Executive View workspace in Axiad Mesh Generative UI, showing the organization risk score, annual loss exposure, tracked programs, risk trend, and morning briefing widgets](/img/generative-ui/executive-view.png)

Mesh has two dashboard modes: **[Generative UI](../user-guide/generative-ui.md)**
— agent-composed workspaces, shown above, where you describe the view you want
and Mesh assembles it from live widgets — and the **classic dashboards** below.

![Axiad Mesh classic dashboard showing the organization's overall risk score, its highest risks, and a bubble chart of entities colored by risk level](/img/imported/axiad-mesh/risk-overview-dashboard.png)

### Generative UI availability

The Generative UI dashboard mode (the **Classic | Agentic** toggle and the
Workspaces experience) is enabled per tenant and is off by default while it
rolls out:

- When it's off, users don't see the mode toggle, and opening Workspaces
  directly shows a "generative dashboard not enabled" message rather than an
  error.
- Enabling it is a tenant-level change — contact your Axiad representative to
  turn it on for your organization.
- Turning it on adds a mode; it changes nothing about your classic dashboards,
  data, or permissions.

Tracking all users across multiple platforms — and understanding the impact if
any one of them is hacked or impersonated — is becoming more and more
impossible. Axiad Mesh isn't another security solution; instead, it empowers
you to see what's happening within **all** of your security solutions.

## What does Axiad Mesh do?

Your visibility tools already surface hundreds of identity risks. The hard part
isn't finding them — it's knowing which ones actually matter, who owns them, and
what to fix first. When everything is flagged as urgent, nothing gets fixed.

Axiad Mesh sits above your visibility layer and turns that pile of findings into
a ranked set of decisions. It pulls data from your connected systems and assesses
risk across your entire identity landscape — not just human users, but the
machine identities (service accounts, API keys, certificates, secrets) and AI
agents that now vastly outnumber them and often run on credentials no one has
audited.

What makes Mesh different is how it looks at risk. It doesn't score a single user
on a single application in isolation. It looks at one identity across many
applications — and many identities across many applications, with different
credential types — to see how a compromise in any one place could cascade. If a
user is protected by a FIDO2 authenticator in one system but signs in to another
with only a password, how secure is the first system once an attacker has that
password? Mesh surfaces exactly these relationships — including the identity
sprawl you didn't know you had — by correlating accounts, credentials, and access
levels back to a single identity.

Then Mesh ranks what it finds by impact: the financial cost of a compromised
human, machine, or agent identity. That way you can see where your posture is
weakest and act on the handful of risks that matter most, instead of triaging a
flat list.

Because information is only useful if it leads to action, Mesh doesn't stop at
telling you what's wrong. It routes remediation back into the tools your team
already uses and tracks your progress — so you can show movement against your
security and compliance programs, not just a longer list of findings.

![A Security Operations workspace in Axiad Mesh Generative UI, ranking the identities and findings that matter most, with the top attack path and non-human identity inventory](/img/generative-ui/operator-workspace.png)

## How does Axiad Mesh work?

Mesh admins connect data sources through connectors — identity providers, cloud
platforms, PAM, IGA, and more. The more Mesh can see, the more correlations and
risk assessments it can make.

Mesh evaluates each data point and generates a risk score for individual
entities — human users, machine identities, AI agents, connectors, locations,
and groups — which roll up into overall scores that highlight the most and least
secure parts of your environment. A score reflects more than the entity itself:
it factors in the entity's level of access, the blast radius of the applications
and identities it touches, the strength of the authentication in use, and more.

Beyond the raw score, Mesh ranks risks by real-world impact — dollar cost for
humans, machines, and agents — and rescores dynamically as your environment
changes, so the priority list stays current instead of going stale the moment
it's generated.

From there, you can view the big picture or drill into any risk to see where it
originates, then route remediation into the systems your team already works in
and track progress against your programs.

![A post-quantum readiness workspace in Axiad Mesh Generative UI, composed by the agent from live data, with a readiness gauge, discovery coverage, quantum-vulnerable asset breakdown, and migration priorities](/img/generative-ui/pqc-readiness-workspace.png)

### Axiad delegation

We don't want you to have to figure everything out on your own. As an industry
leader, Axiad provides insight into the risk that we see and also helps you to
resolve it to decrease the risk score.

![Delegate the investigation dialog for assigning an identity risk investigation to a teammate, with an editable notification message](/img/imported/axiad-mesh/delegate-investigation.png)

## Does Axiad Mesh require Axiad Conductor?

Though you can use both Axiad products to enhance your security posture, they
are independent products and aren't reliant on each other to work.

Axiad Mesh prerequisites do include:

- An identity provider (IdP) for secure sign-in to the web application
- At least one connector to provide data to Axiad Mesh

![Identity details view correlating one person's accounts across an HR system, a development data source, and an identity provider](/img/imported/axiad-mesh/identity-details.png)

> **tip**
Check out the [Admin Guide](../admin-guide/index.md) and the
[User Guide](../user-guide/index.md) to understand more about how this product
works.

## How this documentation is organized

- **Getting Started** — the fast path from zero to your first risk investigation.
- **Admin Guide** — configuration, tenants, connectors, and operations.
- **User Guide** — day-to-day usage of the Mesh dashboard.
- **Connectors & Integrations** — per-source setup and reference.
- **API Reference** — REST/GraphQL API details.
- **Release Notes** — what changed, chronologically.

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