The Core of
Modern Identity Security
Continuously maps human and non-human identities, resources, and permissions to reveal effective access across every machine identity, workload principal, and automated integration.
An identity graph is a living map of who can reach what, and through which paths.
Cydenti uses that map to show the real access story behind SaaS and cloud identities: users, service accounts, workload identities, permissions, and trust links. That matters because identity risk is rarely one bad permission on its own. It is the combination of relationships that creates attack paths and blast radius.
What it is
A continuously updated view of identities, permissions, resources, and trust relationships.
Why it matters
It reveals effective access, hidden inheritance, and attack paths that flat lists miss.
How Cydenti applies it
Cydenti turns the graph into live monitoring, risk context, and guided remediation for SaaS identity security.
Related pages
Use these pages to go deeper on the platform story, risk analysis, and product documentation.
Solution
See the end-to-end platform story.
AI Risk Engine
Understand how graph context becomes prioritization.
Documentation
Review setup guidance and product docs.
Identity graph in practice
This space is reserved for a future article that explains how the identity graph helps security teams understand access paths, blast radius, and remediation.
The Shift in Perspective
From Lists to Relationships
Traditional ViewSiloed
But attackers don’t think in lists. They think in paths.
Cydenti ViewConnected
Relationships traversed, combined, and abused.
What the Identity Graph Connects
One Map, Every Identity
Every connection answers a single question: Who can reach what — and how?
Identities
Humans, service accounts, workloads, and AI agents
Resources
SaaS applications, cloud resources, and data systems
Permissions
Roles, groups, policies, and OAuth grants
Relationships
Trust relationships and inheritance chains
- Relationships are recalculated
- Access paths are updated
- Exposure is re-evaluated
Living, Not Static
Always Current by Design
The Identity Graph isn’t built once. It’s continuously updated. As identities change, permissions evolve, or integrations appear, the graph adapts instantly. Machine identities and workload principals constantly create thousands of machine-to-machine relationships that no human ever authorized, and the graph tracks every one in real time.
Signature Experience
Follow the Path, Not the Assumption
What was previously invisible becomes obvious — and explainable.
Select an identity
Start with any user, service account, or machine identity.
Trace every role
Visualize role assumptions and group memberships.
See inherited permissions
Understand exactly what rights are granted down the chain.
Follow the path to resources
Pinpoint exactly which sensitive assets are exposed.
Why Graph Changes Everything
Context Beats Configuration
A permission isn’t risky on its own.
A role isn’t dangerous in isolation.
An integration isn’t scary by default.
Risk emerges when connections compound.
Accurate Threat Detection
Meaningful Risk Scoring
Practical Least Privilege
Defensible Compliance
Built for Scale and Reality
Designed for Modern Complexity
This isn't a visualization layer.
It's a decision engine.
How It Powers the Platform
The Foundation Under Every Capability
Identity Threat Detection
Cloud Exposure Monitoring
OAuth Risk Management
Risk Scoring
Compliance Reporting
Without the graph, these are guesses.
With it, they’re conclusions.
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