Axiad Highlights Emerging IVIP Market and Positions Mesh for Identity Risk Visibility

According to a recent LinkedIn post from Axiad, the company is drawing attention to Gartner’s formalization of the Identity-First Visibility and Intelligence Platform (IVIP) category in July 2025. The post describes IVIP as an abstraction layer that unifies identity data, activity, relationships, and security posture across existing identity and access tools rather than adding another standalone product.

The LinkedIn content suggests that current identity stacks, including IAM, IGA, and PAM solutions, often operate in silos and fail to provide a coherent view of identity risk. It highlights that answering basic exposure questions can still require extensive manual data reconciliation, which may limit security teams’ ability to manage growing attack surfaces efficiently.

As shared in the post, non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys, machine credentials, and AI agents are portrayed as now outnumbering human identities in many enterprises. The post implies that many incumbent tools were not originally designed to monitor these machine identities with the same rigor, potentially creating new risk vectors that demand more integrated visibility.

The LinkedIn post cites a Gartner projection that by 2028, 70% of CISOs are expected to use an IVIP to reduce their identity and access management attack surface, compared with current penetration estimated at below 5%. This projected adoption curve points to a potentially large addressable market for vendors positioned within the IVIP category over the next several years.

The post positions Axiad Mesh as a solution aligned with this emerging IVIP framework, indicating that the platform is designed to address fragmented identity visibility and risk assessment. For investors, this emphasis may signal that Axiad is seeking to be identified as an early mover in a nascent segment that leading analysts expect to scale, which could support future growth if the category materializes as forecast.

If IVIP adoption follows Gartner’s projections, companies offering unified identity visibility and intelligence could see increased enterprise security spending directed toward their platforms. Axiad’s focus on machine and human identity coverage may strengthen its competitive positioning against traditional IAM providers, though execution, customer acquisition, and differentiation will likely remain key determinants of financial impact.