Beyond cloud compliance dashboards, what’s next? 

The report argues that while cloud compliance dashboards, CNAPP, and CSPM are valuable for hygiene, they miss real-world attack paths involving CI/CD pipelines, IaC, over-privileged roles, leaked developer tokens, and third-party dependencies. It urges organizations to enable and regularly test provider security tools, treat pipelines and dependencies as part of the attack surface, enforce least privilege and strong branch policies, and run bespoke threat actor simulations and penetration tests to validate defenses—citing incidents like the compromised GitHub Action and the CircleCI breach as examples of gaps not surfaced by compliance checks.