# End-user onboarding

Welcome to Axiad Mesh! As a first-time user, this is what you can expect.

> **note**
This is the onboarding experience for a **Standard** Mesh user (no
administrative privileges in Axiad Mesh). If you're an admin user, see the
[Admin Guide](../admin-guide/index.md) instead.

You can sign in to Axiad Mesh by using the step-by-step guide below.

## First-time sign-in

To kick off your Axiad journey, you'll have access to the Axiad Mesh
environment set up by your admins. You'll receive an invite email from Axiad
with a link that takes you directly to the web application.

1. From the Axiad welcome email, select the sign-in link, which opens a web
   browser.
2. On the sign-in page, enter your email address and select **Next**.

   ![Axiad Mesh sign-in page with an email address field and a Next button](/img/imported/end-user-onboarding/login-page.png)

3. After you authenticate through your identity provider (IdP), you land on
   the Axiad Mesh homepage. Depending on how much your admins have completed,
   you could immediately see the bubble chart visualization, or you may see a
   **Things are getting set up** page.

   ![The Things are getting set up page, shown while connectors are still being configured](/img/imported/end-user-onboarding/things-getting-set-up.png)

   :::note Subsequent sign-ins
   Once the connectors are integrated, the homepage displays your identity
   ecosystem visualization so you can instantly see the overview of your
   environment.
   :::

   ![Axiad Mesh homepage showing the identity ecosystem bubble chart visualization](/img/imported/end-user-onboarding/homepage-visualization.png)

4. To sign out of Axiad Mesh, select your name in the top-right corner and
   select **Sign out**.

   ![The user menu in the top-right corner, open to show the Sign out option](/img/imported/end-user-onboarding/sign-out.png)

## Welcome to Axiad Mesh

Once your Axiad Mesh dashboard is set up, you can quickly get the information
you need, with options to dig deeper into each entity, identity, and potential
risk.

### Mesh widgets

On the left-hand side of the application, you can see the quick-reference
widgets that give you an immediate snapshot of your environment and the world
of cybersecurity.

![The quick-reference widgets: overall risk score, highest risks, and industry news feed](/img/imported/end-user-onboarding/mesh-widgets.png)

The first widget is your organization's **overall risk score**. Mesh generates
it by compiling the individual risk scores from identities, applications,
credentials, behavior, and other sources into a top-level rating. Scores range
from 1 to 100, with 100 being the riskiest.

Here, you can also address **profiling gaps** (that is, unconfirmed account
associations) to get a more accurate risk score for your organization.

The next widget details your organization's **highest risks** to help you
understand why you have the score that you have. You can then use this
information to improve your security posture and simultaneously lower your
risk score.

The last widget includes an **industry news feed** to give you an immediate
heads-up on the latest happenings in the cybersecurity world.

### Bubble chart overview

The main bubble chart visualization is made up of *entities*, each with their
own risk score and organized by level of riskiness, with the highest risk
bubbling up at the top.

An entity could be an application, location, authentication method,
department, or something else that spans your environment.

From here, you can hover over each bubble to get a preview of the assessment,
or select an entity to get complete information about it, including risk score
details, associated identities, potential blast radius, and more. You can also
group entities together to see how they overlap and what risks are possible
with those relationships.

> **tip**
Check out more articles within the [User Guide](./index.md) to see how you can
turn this high-level overview into remedial actions.