From Static Guardrails to AI Policy Agents: 2026 Playbook for Cloud Security Teams
hat failure is the exact gap the Fast forward to last year, and that same policy stack failed spectacularly. A privilege escalation path emerged across three different repositories and two CI/CD pipelines. No single policy fired because, syntactically, every individual change was “compliant.” But contextualized together, they created a backdoor wide enough to drive a…