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security-hub

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
Organizations Delegation Policy: Automatically creates the 8-statement Organizations resource-based delegation policy required for Security Hub console access in the delegated administrator account
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)
Account Verification: Optional safety check that validates Terraform is running in the correct AWS account
Flexible Account Map: Supports both remote-state account-map lookups and static account map variables (default)

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-use1-security
components:
  terraform:
    aws-security-hub/delegated-administrator:
      metadata:
        component: aws-security-hub
      vars:
        enabled: true
        delegated_administrator_account_name: core-security
        # Product subscriptions for AWS security service integrations
        product_subscriptions:
          guardduty: true        # Enable GuardDuty findings
          inspector: true        # Enable Inspector findings
          macie: false           # Disabled by default - enable if using Macie
          config: true           # Enable Config findings
          access_analyzer: true  # Enable Access Analyzer findings
          firewall_manager: false # Disabled by default

atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/delegated-administrator -s core-use1-security
atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/delegated-administrator -s core-use2-security
atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/delegated-administrator -s core-usw1-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. This step also creates the Organizations resource-based delegation policy that grants the delegated administrator permissions to manage Security Hub policies via Organizations APIs.

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-use1-root
components:
  terraform:
    aws-security-hub/root:
      metadata:
        component: aws-security-hub
      vars:
        enabled: true
        delegated_administrator_account_name: core-security
        privileged: true

atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/root -s core-use1-root
atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/root -s core-use2-root
atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/root -s core-usw1-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. This step uses LOCAL configuration mode where each account manages its own configuration, and auto-enables Security Hub for all member accounts.

# core-use1-security
components:
  terraform:
    aws-security-hub/org-settings:
      metadata:
        component: aws-security-hub
      vars:
        enabled: true
        delegated_administrator_account_name: core-security
        admin_delegated: true

atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/org-settings -s core-use1-security
atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/org-settings -s core-use2-security
atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/org-settings -s core-usw1-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	`false`	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 aws-security-hub/delegated-administrator -s core-use1-security

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

Delegation Policy

Step 2 (root account deployment) creates an Organizations resource-based delegation policy with 8 policy statements that grant the delegated administrator account permissions to manage Security Hub policies via Organizations APIs. This policy is required even when using LOCAL configuration mode, because the Security Hub console checks for it when displaying central configuration management options.

Key details:

The policy uses organizations:* actions (not securityhub:*). Organizations resource policies only support organizations:* actions.
AWS expects exactly 8 policy statements, including SecurityServicesDelegating* statements with resource ARNs scoped to the organization ID.
The policy includes resources for both securityhub_policy and inspector_policy types (shared delegation mechanism).
aws_organizations_resource_policy is an organization-wide singleton. Only one can exist per organization. If other services need delegation policies, their statements must be combined into a single policy.
Set organizations_resource_policy_enabled = false if the Organizations resource policy is managed by another component or service.

Troubleshooting: "Missing Permissions to Manage Policies"

If the delegated administrator sees this error in the Security Hub console:

You are missing permissions that are required to manage policies in Security Hub.

This means the Organizations resource-based delegation policy is missing or incomplete. Re-apply Step 2:

atmos terraform apply aws-security-hub/root -s core-use1-root

Account Map Configuration

The component supports two modes for resolving AWS account IDs:

Static Mode (default)

When account_map_enabled = false (default), the component uses a static account_map variable instead of remote state. This is useful when not using the account-map component or when account mappings are managed externally (e.g., by Atmos).

Remote State Mode

When account_map_enabled = true, the component fetches account mappings from the account-map component via Terraform remote state. This is the standard Cloud Posse reference architecture pattern.

vars:
  account_map_enabled: false
  account_map:
    full_account_map:
      core-root: "111111111111"
      core-security: "222222222222"
      core-audit: "333333333333"
      plat-dev: "444444444444"
      plat-prod: "555555555555"
    root_account_account_name: "core-root"

When using static mode, provider authentication is handled externally (e.g., by Atmos identity resolution) rather than through the iam-roles module.

Account Verification

When account_verification_enabled = true (default), the component verifies that Terraform is executing in the correct AWS account by comparing the current account ID against the expected account ID from the account map, based on the component's tenant-stage context. This provides a safety check to catch misconfigurations before any resources are created or modified.

To disable account verification:

vars:
  account_verification_enabled: false

Variables

Required Variables

region (string) required: AWS Region

Optional Variables

account_map optional

Static account map configuration. Only used when account_map_enabled is false.
Map keys use tenant-stage format (e.g., core-security, core-audit, plat-prod).

Type:

object({
full_account_map              = map(string)
audit_account_account_name    = optional(string, "")
root_account_account_name     = optional(string, "")
identity_account_account_name = optional(string, "")
aws_partition                 = optional(string, "aws")
iam_role_arn_templates        = optional(map(string), {})
})

Default value:

{
  "audit_account_account_name": "",
  "aws_partition": "aws",
  "full_account_map": {},
  "iam_role_arn_templates": {},
  "identity_account_account_name": "",
  "root_account_account_name": ""
}

account_map_component_name (string) optional

The name of the account-map component

Default value: "account-map"

account_map_enabled (bool) optional

Enable the account map component. When true, the component fetches account mappings from the
account-map component via remote state. When false (default), the component uses the static account_map variable instead.

Default value: false

account_map_tenant (string) optional

The tenant where the account_map component required by remote-state is deployed

Default value: "core"

account_verification_enabled (bool) optional

Enable account verification. When true (default), the component verifies that Terraform is executing
in the correct AWS account by comparing the current account ID against the expected account from the
account_map based on the component's tenant-stage context.

Default value: true

admin_delegated (bool) optional

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.

Default value: false

auto_enable_organization_members (bool) optional

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

Default value: true

cloudwatch_event_rule_pattern_detail_type (string) optional

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

Default value: "Security Hub Findings - Imported"

create_sns_topic (bool) optional

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.

Default value: false

default_standards_enabled (bool) optional

Flag to indicate whether default standards should be enabled

Default value: true

delegated_administrator_account_name (string) optional

The name of the account that is the AWS Organization Delegated Administrator account

Default value: "core-security"

enabled_standards (set(string)) optional

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

Default value: [ ]

finding_aggregation_region (string) optional

If finding aggregation is enabled, the region that collects findings

Default value: "us-east-1"

finding_aggregator_enabled (bool) optional

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

Default value: true

finding_aggregator_linking_mode (string) optional

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

Default value: "ALL_REGIONS"

finding_aggregator_regions (any) optional

A list of regions to aggregate findings from.

This is only used if finding_aggregator_enabled is true.

Default value: null

findings_notification_arn (string) optional

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.

Default value: null

global_environment (string) optional

Global environment name

Default value: "gbl"

organization_management_account_name (string) optional

The name of the AWS Organization management account

Default value: null

organizations_resource_policy_enabled (bool) optional

Enable creation of the Organizations resource-based delegation policy for Security Hub. When true (default),
the component creates an aws_organizations_resource_policy in the management account (Step 2) that grants the
delegated administrator permissions to manage Security Hub policies via Organizations APIs.

Set to false if the Organizations resource policy is managed elsewhere (e.g., by another component or service).
Note: aws_organizations_resource_policy is an organization-wide singleton — only one can exist per organization.
If other services (e.g., AWS Backup, Inspector) need delegation policies, their statements must be combined into
a single policy managed by one component.

Default value: true

privileged (bool) optional

true if the default provider already has access to the backend

Default value: false

product_subscriptions optional

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: false (disabled by default - enable if using Macie)
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

Type:

object({
guardduty        = optional(bool, true)
inspector        = optional(bool, true)
macie            = optional(bool, false)
config           = optional(bool, true)
access_analyzer  = optional(bool, true)
firewall_manager = optional(bool, false)
})

Default value: { }

root_account_stage (string) optional

The stage name for the Organization root (management) account. This is used to lookup account IDs from account names
using the account-map component.

Default value: "root"

subscribers optional

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.

Type:

map(object({
protocol               = string
endpoint               = string
endpoint_auto_confirms = bool
raw_message_delivery   = bool
}))

Default value: { }

Context Variables

The following variables are defined in the context.tf file of this module and part of the terraform-null-label pattern.

additional_tag_map (map(string)) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: { }

attributes (list(string)) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: [ ]

context (any) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value:

{
  "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
}

delimiter (string) optional

Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.

Required: No

Default value: null

descriptor_formats (any) optional

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).

Required: No

Default value: { }

enabled (bool) optional

Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources
Required: No

Default value: null

environment (string) optional

ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'
Required: No

Default value: null

id_length_limit (number) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: null

label_key_case (string) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: null

label_order (list(string)) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: null

label_value_case (string) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: null

labels_as_tags (set(string)) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value:

[
  "default"
]

name (string) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: null

namespace (string) optional

ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique
Required: No

Default value: null

regex_replace_chars (string) optional

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.

Required: No

Default value: null

stage (string) optional

ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'
Required: No

Default value: null

tags (map(string)) optional

Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.

Required: No

Default value: { }

tenant (string) optional

ID element (Rarely used, not included by default). A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for
Required: No

Default value: null

Outputs

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

Dependencies

Requirements

terraform, version: >= 1.4.0
aws, version: >= 5.33.0
awsutils, version: >= 0.16.0

Providers

aws, version: >= 5.33.0
awsutils, version: >= 0.16.0
terraform

Modules

Name	Version	Source	Description
`account_map`	1.8.0	`cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state`	n/a
`security_hub`	0.12.2	`cloudposse/security-hub/aws`	If we are running in the AWS Org designated administrator account, enable Security Hub and optionally enable standards and finding aggregation
`this`	0.25.0	`cloudposse/label/null`	n/a

Resources

The following resources are used by this module:

aws_organizations_resource_policy.security_hub (resource)
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)
terraform_data.account_verification (resource)

Data Sources

The following data sources are used by this module:

aws_caller_identity.this (data source)
aws_organizations_organization.this (data source)
aws_partition.this (data source)
aws_region.this (data source)

Key Features​

Component Features​

Usage​

Deployment Overview​

Deploy to Delegated Administrator Account​

Deploy to Organization Management (root) Account​

Deploy Organization Settings in Delegated Administrator Account​

Product Subscriptions​

Verification​

Delegation Policy​

Troubleshooting: "Missing Permissions to Manage Policies"​

Account Map Configuration​

Static Mode (default)​

Remote State Mode​

Account Verification​

Variables​

Required Variables​

Optional Variables​

Context Variables​

Outputs​

Dependencies​

Requirements​

Providers​

Modules​

Resources​

Data Sources​

Key Features

Component Features

Usage

Deployment Overview

Deploy to Delegated Administrator Account

Deploy to Organization Management (root) Account

Deploy Organization Settings in Delegated Administrator Account

Product Subscriptions

Verification

Delegation Policy

Troubleshooting: "Missing Permissions to Manage Policies"

Account Map Configuration

Static Mode (default)

Remote State Mode

Account Verification

Variables

Required Variables

Optional Variables

Context Variables

Outputs

Dependencies

Requirements

Providers

Modules

Resources

Data Sources