This component is responsible for configuring Security Hub within an AWS Organization.

Amazon Security Hub enables users to centrally manage and monitor the security and compliance of their AWS accounts and resources. It aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security findings from various AWS services, third-party tools, and integrated partner solutions.

Key Features

• Centralized Security Management: Provides a centralized dashboard where users can view and manage security findings from multiple AWS accounts and regions, allowing for a unified view of the security posture across the entire AWS environment.

• Automated Security Checks: Automatically performs continuous security checks on AWS resources, configurations, and security best practices using industry standards and compliance frameworks such as AWS CIS Foundations Benchmark.

• Product Subscriptions: Integrates with AWS security services (GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, Config, Access Analyzer, Firewall Manager) to automatically receive and aggregate findings in a single dashboard.

• Security Standards and Compliance: Provides compliance checks against industry standards and regulatory frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and GDPR, with guidance on remediation actions.

• Prioritized Security Findings: Analyzes and prioritizes security findings based on severity, enabling users to focus on the most critical issues with efficient threat response and remediation.

• Custom Insights and Event Aggregation: Supports custom insights and rules to focus on specific security criteria, with event aggregation and correlation capabilities to identify related findings and attack patterns.

• Alert Notifications and Automation: Supports alert notifications through Amazon SNS and facilitates automation through integration with AWS Lambda for automated remediation actions.

• GovCloud Support: All product subscription ARNs use partition-aware format, automatically supporting both Commercial AWS and GovCloud partitions.

Component Features

• Delegated Administrator Model: Uses AWS Organizations delegated administrator pattern for centralized management
• Multi-Region Deployment: Supports deployment across all AWS regions with finding aggregation
• Product Subscriptions: Automatically creates subscriptions for AWS security service integrations
• SNS Notifications: Optional SNS topic creation for security finding alerts
• Compliance Standards: Configurable security standards (CIS, PCI DSS, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices)

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Usage

Stack Level: Regional

Deployment Overview

This component is complex in that it must be deployed multiple times with different variables set to configure the AWS Organization successfully.

It is further complicated by the fact that you must deploy each of the component instances described below to every region that existed before March 2019 and to any regions that have been opted-in as described in the AWS Documentation.

In the examples below, we assume that the AWS Organization Management account is root and the AWS Organization Delegated Administrator account is security, both in the core tenant.

Deploy to Delegated Administrator Account

First, the component is deployed to the Delegated Administrator account in each region to configure the Security Hub instance to which each account will send its findings.

# core-ue1-security
components:
  terraform:
    security-hub/delegated-administrator/ue1:
      metadata:
        component: security-hub
      vars:
        enabled: true
        delegated_administrator_account_name: core-security
        environment: ue1
        region: us-east-1
        # Product subscriptions for AWS security service integrations
        product_subscriptions:
          guardduty: true        # Enable GuardDuty findings
          inspector: true        # Enable Inspector findings
          macie: true            # Enable Macie findings
          config: true           # Enable Config findings
          access_analyzer: true  # Enable Access Analyzer findings
          firewall_manager: false # Disabled by default

atmos terraform apply security-hub/delegated-administrator/ue1 -s core-ue1-security
atmos terraform apply security-hub/delegated-administrator/ue2 -s core-ue2-security
atmos terraform apply security-hub/delegated-administrator/uw1 -s core-uw1-security
# ... other regions

Deploy to Organization Management (root) Account

Next, the component is deployed to the AWS Organization Management (a/k/a root) Account in order to set the AWS Organization Designated Administrator account.

Note that SuperAdmin permissions must be used as we are deploying to the AWS Organization Management account. Since we are using the SuperAdmin user, it will already have access to the state bucket, so we set the role_arn of the backend config to null and set var.privileged to true.

# core-ue1-root
components:
  terraform:
    security-hub/root/ue1:
      metadata:
        component: security-hub
      backend:
        s3:
          role_arn: null
      vars:
        enabled: true
        delegated_administrator_account_name: core-security
        environment: ue1
        region: us-east-1
        privileged: true

atmos terraform apply security-hub/root/ue1 -s core-ue1-root
atmos terraform apply security-hub/root/ue2 -s core-ue2-root
atmos terraform apply security-hub/root/uw1 -s core-uw1-root
# ... other regions

Deploy Organization Settings in Delegated Administrator Account

Finally, the component is deployed to the Delegated Administrator Account again in order to create the organization-wide Security Hub configuration for the AWS Organization, but with var.admin_delegated set to true this time to indicate that the delegation from the Organization Management account has already been performed.

# core-ue1-security
components:
  terraform:
    security-hub/org-settings/ue1:
      metadata:
        component: security-hub
      vars:
        enabled: true
        delegated_administrator_account_name: core-security
        environment: ue1
        region: us-east-1
        admin_delegated: true

atmos terraform apply security-hub/org-settings/ue1 -s core-ue1-security
atmos terraform apply security-hub/org-settings/ue2 -s core-ue2-security
atmos terraform apply security-hub/org-settings/uw1 -s core-uw1-security
# ... other regions

Product Subscriptions

Product subscriptions enable Security Hub to receive and aggregate findings from AWS security services. The component supports automatic integration with:

Product	Default	Description
GuardDuty	true	Threat detection findings
Inspector	true	Vulnerability scanning findings
Macie	true	Sensitive data discovery findings
Config	true	Configuration compliance findings
Access Analyzer	true	External access findings
Firewall Manager	false	Firewall policy compliance findings

Product subscriptions are only created during Step 1 (delegated administrator deployment) and use partition-aware ARN format for GovCloud compatibility.

Verification

After deployment, verify product subscriptions:

# Via Terraform output
atmos terraform output security-hub/delegated-administrator/ue1 -s core-ue1-security

# Via AWS CLI
aws securityhub list-enabled-products-for-import --region us-east-1

Important

In Cloud Posse's examples, we avoid pinning modules to specific versions to prevent discrepancies between the documentation and the latest released versions. However, for your own projects, we strongly advise pinning each module to the exact version you're using. This practice ensures the stability of your infrastructure. Additionally, we recommend implementing a systematic approach for updating versions to avoid unexpected changes.

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 1.0.0
aws	>= 5.0, < 6.0.0
awsutils	>= 0.16.0, < 6.0.0

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 5.0, < 6.0.0
awsutils	>= 0.16.0, < 6.0.0

Modules

Name	Source	Version
account_map	cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state	1.8.0
iam_roles	../account-map/modules/iam-roles	n/a
security_hub	cloudposse/security-hub/aws	0.12.2
this	cloudposse/label/null	0.25.0

Resources

Name	Type
aws_securityhub_account.this	resource
aws_securityhub_organization_admin_account.this	resource
aws_securityhub_organization_configuration.this	resource
aws_securityhub_product_subscription.this	resource
awsutils_security_hub_organization_settings.this	resource
aws_caller_identity.this	data source
aws_partition.this	data source
aws_region.this	data source

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
account_map_component_name	The name of the account-map component	string	"account-map"	no
account_map_tenant	The tenant where the account_map component required by remote-state is deployed	string	"core"	no
additional_tag_map	Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id. This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.	map(string)	{}	no
admin_delegated	A flag to indicate if the AWS Organization-wide settings should be created. This can only be done after the Security Hub Administrator account has already been delegated from the AWS Org Management account (usually 'root'). See the Deployment section of the README for more information.	bool	false	no
attributes	ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id, in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter and treated as a single ID element.	list(string)	[]	no
auto_enable_organization_members	Flag to toggle auto-enablement of Security Hub for new member accounts in the organization. For more information, see: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/securityhub_organization_configuration#auto_enable	bool	true	no
cloudwatch_event_rule_pattern_detail_type	The detail-type pattern used to match events that will be sent to SNS. For more information, see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/CloudWatchEventsandEventPatterns.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/event-types.html	string	"Security Hub Findings - Imported"	no
context	Single object for setting entire context at once. See description of individual variables for details. Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value. Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object, except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.	any	{ "additional_tag_map": {}, "attributes": [], "delimiter": null, "descriptor_formats": {}, "enabled": true, "environment": null, "id_length_limit": null, "label_key_case": null, "label_order": [], "label_value_case": null, "labels_as_tags": [ "unset" ], "name": null, "namespace": null, "regex_replace_chars": null, "stage": null, "tags": {}, "tenant": null }	no
create_sns_topic	Flag to indicate whether an SNS topic should be created for notifications. If you want to send findings to a new SNS topic, set this to true and provide a valid configuration for subscribers.	bool	false	no
default_standards_enabled	Flag to indicate whether default standards should be enabled	bool	true	no
delegated_administrator_account_name	The name of the account that is the AWS Organization Delegated Administrator account	string	"core-security"	no
delimiter	Delimiter to be used between ID elements. Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.	string	null	no
descriptor_formats	Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map. Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form {<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>} (Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.) format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function. labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function. Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be identical to how they appear in id. Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).	any	{}	no
enabled	Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources	bool	null	no
enabled_standards	A list of standards to enable in the account. For example: - standards/aws-foundational-security-best-practices/v/1.0.0 - ruleset/cis-aws-foundations-benchmark/v/1.2.0 - standards/pci-dss/v/3.2.1 - standards/cis-aws-foundations-benchmark/v/1.4.0	set(string)	[]	no
environment	ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'	string	null	no
finding_aggregation_region	If finding aggregation is enabled, the region that collects findings	string	null	no
finding_aggregator_enabled	Flag to indicate whether a finding aggregator should be created If you want to aggregate findings from one region, set this to true. For more information, see: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/securityhub_finding_aggregator	bool	false	no
finding_aggregator_linking_mode	Linking mode to use for the finding aggregator. The possible values are: - ALL_REGIONS - Aggregate from all regions - ALL_REGIONS_EXCEPT_SPECIFIED - Aggregate from all regions except those specified in var.finding_aggregator_regions - SPECIFIED_REGIONS - Aggregate from regions specified in var.finding_aggregator_regions	string	"ALL_REGIONS"	no
finding_aggregator_regions	A list of regions to aggregate findings from. This is only used if finding_aggregator_enabled is true.	any	null	no
findings_notification_arn	The ARN for an SNS topic to send findings notifications to. This is only used if create_sns_topic is false. If you want to send findings to an existing SNS topic, set this to the ARN of the existing topic and set create_sns_topic to false.	string	null	no
global_environment	Global environment name	string	"gbl"	no
id_length_limit	Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6). Set to 0 for unlimited length. Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0. Does not affect id_full.	number	null	no
import_profile_name	AWS Profile name to use when importing a resource	string	null	no
import_role_arn	IAM Role ARN to use when importing a resource	string	null	no
label_key_case	Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module. Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input. Possible values: lower, title, upper. Default value: title.	string	null	no
label_order	The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id. Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"]. You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.	list(string)	null	no
label_value_case	Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id, set as tag values, and output by this module individually. Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input. Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation). Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs. Default value: lower.	string	null	no
labels_as_tags	Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output. Default is to include all labels. Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output. Set to [] to suppress all generated tags. Notes: The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name. Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.	set(string)	[ "default" ]	no
name	ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'. This is the only ID element not also included as a tag. The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.	string	null	no
namespace	ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique	string	null	no
organization_management_account_name	The name of the AWS Organization management account	string	null	no
privileged	true if the default provider already has access to the backend	bool	false	no
product_subscriptions	Map of AWS service product subscriptions to enable in Security Hub. Product subscriptions allow Security Hub to receive findings from AWS security services. Default values: - guardduty: true (enable GuardDuty findings integration) - inspector: true (enable Inspector findings integration) - macie: true (enable Macie findings integration) - config: true (enable Config findings integration) - access_analyzer: true (enable Access Analyzer findings integration) - firewall_manager: false (disabled by default - enable if using Firewall Manager) Note: Product subscriptions can be enabled even if the source service is not yet deployed. The subscription will simply wait for findings once the service is enabled. For more information, see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/securityhub-findings-providers.html	object({ guardduty = optional(bool, true) inspector = optional(bool, true) macie = optional(bool, true) config = optional(bool, true) access_analyzer = optional(bool, true) firewall_manager = optional(bool, false) })	{}	no
regex_replace_chars	Terraform regular expression (regex) string. Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements. If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.	string	null	no
region	AWS Region	string	n/a	yes
root_account_stage	The stage name for the Organization root (management) account. This is used to lookup account IDs from account names using the account-map component.	string	"root"	no
stage	ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'	string	null	no
subscribers	A map of subscription configurations for SNS topics For more information, see: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/sns_topic_subscription#argument-reference protocol: The protocol to use. The possible values for this are: sqs, sms, lambda, application. (http or https are partially supported, see link) (email is an option but is unsupported in terraform, see link). endpoint: The endpoint to send data to, the contents will vary with the protocol. (see link for more information) endpoint_auto_confirms: Boolean indicating whether the end point is capable of auto confirming subscription e.g., PagerDuty. Default is false. raw_message_delivery: Boolean indicating whether or not to enable raw message delivery (the original message is directly passed, not wrapped in JSON with the original message in the message property). Default is false.	map(object({ protocol = string endpoint = string endpoint_auto_confirms = bool raw_message_delivery = bool }))	{}	no
tags	Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}). Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.	map(string)	{}	no
tenant	ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for	string	null	no

Outputs

Name	Description
delegated_administrator_account_id	The AWS Account ID of the AWS Organization delegated administrator account
product_subscriptions	ARNs of Security Hub product subscriptions for AWS service integrations
sns_topic_name	The name of the SNS topic created by the component
sns_topic_subscriptions	The SNS topic subscriptions created by the component

Related Projects

Check out these related projects.

• Cloud Posse Terraform Modules - Our collection of reusable Terraform modules used by our reference architectures.
• Atmos - Atmos is like docker-compose but for your infrastructure
• terraform-aws-security-hub - Terraform module to provision AWS Security Hub
• aws-guardduty - Component for AWS GuardDuty threat detection
• aws-config - Component for AWS Config compliance management
• aws-inspector2 - Component for AWS Inspector vulnerability scanning

References

For additional context, refer to some of these links.

• AWS Security Hub Documentation - Official AWS documentation for Security Hub
• Security Hub Organization Administration - Managing Security Hub across AWS Organizations
• Security Hub Product Integrations - Integrating AWS services with Security Hub via product subscriptions
• Security Hub Standards - Security standards and compliance frameworks in Security Hub
• Security Hub Finding Aggregation - Cross-region finding aggregation configuration
• CloudPosse Security Hub Terraform Module - The underlying Terraform module used by this component
• Cloud Posse's upstream component - Original component in terraform-aws-components

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