Automated remediation for cloud cost waste is now table stakes. Idle VMs get shut down at midnight. Oversized instances get right-sized on a schedule. The same closed-loop architecture, applied to IAM over-permissions and security group drift, is largely unexplored. Most security teams still run on a detect-then-ticket model that leaves misconfigurations live for 14 days while a backlog grows. That 14-day window is not an operational inconvenience. It is the attack surface. The gap between when a misconfiguration is created and when it is fixed is when exploitation happens. Autonomous IAM remediation eliminates the window, not just the misconfiguration. The Detect-Then-Ticket Model Has a 14-Day Security Hole The current security workflow is: a cloud configuration drift detector flags an IAM principal with wildcard S3:* permissions. A finding appears in the CSPM console. An engineer sees it, creates a ticket, assigns it to the security backlog. The ticket sits.…