Cloud Security
Assessment
Identity. Network. Storage. Workload. Containers. CIS Benchmarks as the floor. IAM privilege-path analysis as the value.
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How a cloud assessment runs
Scope
Federated read-only access. Account / subscription / project boundaries mapped in Lemon.
Test
5–18 days of CIS validation, IAM analysis, network segmentation, storage exposure, container/workload review.
Deliver
Executive + technical reports with IaC fixes, IAM policy snippets, retest rounds, and security certificate.
What Is Cloud Security Assessment?
Cloud security assessment is a structured review of your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment by certified experts, covering identity, network, storage, workload, and data-protection postures, plus assumed-breach lateral-movement testing within the cloud control plane. Required for SOC 2, ISO 27001 A.5.23, CERT-In log-retention obligations, and DPDP technical safeguards.
Beyond CIS Benchmark compliance
CIS catches the obvious; we find the privilege-path that gets attackers from a Lambda to your customer database.
IAM Privilege Paths
Role chains, AssumeRole abuse, federated-identity gaps, tier-0 reachability
Network & Segmentation
SG / NSG / firewall rules, peering, transit gateway, lateral movement
Storage Exposure
S3 / Blob / GCS public access, encryption, snapshots, signed-URL hygiene
Workload & VM
EC2 / VM hardening, AMI / image hygiene, patch posture, agent coverage
Kubernetes
RBAC, pod-security standards, network policies, secret handling, admission controllers
Serverless
Lambda / Functions / Cloud Run identity, env-var secrets, layer trust
Secrets & Keys
KMS / Key Vault / KMS, rotation, scoped access, secret leakage detection
Logging & Detection
CloudTrail / Activity / Audit Log coverage, GuardDuty, Defender, SCC tuning
Methodology
Nine steps, from account inventory to privilege path
Benchmarks find the misconfiguration. The steps after them establish what an attacker could actually reach from it, which is the question a compliance console cannot answer.
Inventory & Read-Only Access
Federated read-only access provisioned across accounts / subscriptions / projects. Lemon ingests the full inventory: VPCs, subnets, IAM principals, services, regions, secrets stores.
Architecture Review
Account / subscription / project boundary review, network topology, identity model, data-flow mapping. Identify blast-radius and tier-0 components.
CIS Benchmark Baseline
Automated CIS Benchmark scan (AWS, Azure, GCP) plus delta against your stated controls. Baseline becomes the floor for everything we test below.
IAM & Privilege Path Analysis
Roles, policies, trust relationships, federated identity, AssumeRole chains. Tier-0 attack-path mapping. Privilege-escalation paths from common entry points.
Network & Segmentation
Security groups, NSGs, firewall rules, peering, transit gateway, exposed services, lateral-movement paths between subnets and accounts.
Storage & Data Exposure
S3 / Blob / GCS public-access posture, encryption at rest, key rotation, signed-URL expiry, backup access controls, snapshot exposure.
Workload, Container, Serverless
EC2/VM hardening, Kubernetes RBAC + pod-security + network policies, Lambda / Functions / Cloud Run identity boundary, secrets handling.
Three-Layer QA Review
L1 cloud auditor → L2 senior consultant → L3 cloud architect. Every finding validated, every reproduction reviewed, every CVSS scored consistently.
Reporting & Re-test
Executive + technical reports with cloud-specific remediation (IaC examples, IAM policies, GuardDuty/Defender configs), retest rounds, and security certificate.
The Lemon Platform
What your team gets from Lemon
Lemon is where we run the assessment, and your security and platform teams work in it alongside us, from kickoff through to the final retest.
See how Lemon works →Real-Time Findings Dashboard
Track findings as they are identified, with project timeline and issue status visible throughout the engagement.
Vulnerability Lifecycle Tracking
Every finding tracked from discovery through remediation and retest, so your platform team can see what is closed and what is still open.
Controlled Automated Scanning
Automated scanning runs in scheduled windows, with advance notification, IP controls, and pause/resume.
AI-Driven Coverage Validation
The environment map is cross-referenced against scan results and manual testing artefacts to flag accounts, services or configurations that were not fully evaluated, before the engagement closes.
Quality Assurance
Three reviews before a cloud finding reaches you
Every finding passes L1, L2 and L3 review. Lemon will not release the assessment until all three gates have cleared.
Cloud Auditor
Runs the assessment, documents every finding with a reproducible proof of concept, uploads the testing artefacts to Lemon, and maps each finding to the specific cloud service and configuration it affects.
Senior Consultant
Reviews the environment mapping for completeness, validates the testing methodology, identifies coverage gaps, and adds test cases for services or configurations that need deeper analysis.
Cloud Architect
Confirms impact classification, checks reporting accuracy, verifies that remediation guidance is technology-specific and practical, and signs off the deliverable.
Compliance-Ready
Audit-ready reporting for cloud mandates
Cloud assessment reports satisfy the technical clauses your auditor and customer DPAs will check: CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, ISO 27001 A.5.23, CERT-In log retention, DPDP, HIPAA, GDPR.
Common engagement scopes
Which parts of the estate come into scope
Cloud engagements cluster into a handful of well-defined patterns, each sized for our 5–18 day delivery window.
Deliverables
The privilege paths, written down
Two reports for two audiences: a risk picture for leadership, IaC-ready remediation for your platform team (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, IAM JSON).
Executive Report
Risk overview, critical findings, business impact, remediation priorities. Board-ready.
Technical Report + IaC Fixes
Findings with Terraform / CloudFormation / Bicep fix snippets, IAM JSON, severity, CVSS v4.0.
Retest & Walkthrough
Multiple retest rounds at no extra cost. Walkthrough call with your platform / SecOps team.
Security Certificate
Formal certificate for compliance, customer assurance, and vendor due diligence.
FAQ
Cloud assessment, answered
Can't find what you're looking for? Talk to our cloud-security lead.
Contact usWhat is cloud security assessment?
AWS, Azure, or GCP: which do you cover?
Read-only access vs full credentials?
Is CIS Benchmark validation enough?
Do you test Kubernetes / containers?
How long does a cloud assessment take?
Is cloud testing required for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / DPDP?
Do you provide remediation guidance?
Find the cloud privilege path before someone else does.
Whether it's a single-account hardening pass, a multi-cloud landing zone audit, or a Kubernetes admission-controller review, talk to our cloud-security lead.
The platform underneath
Every engagement runs on B-52.
Cloud findings come from the control plane more often than from the workload, and the control plane differs by provider. B-52 breaks its cloud class out by AWS and Azure for that reason instead of testing a generic cloud.