Implementing AWS Security Hub Compliance

When to Use

• When establishing centralized security posture management across multiple AWS accounts
• When compliance requirements demand continuous monitoring against CIS, PCI DSS, or NIST 800-53 standards
• When aggregating findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, Firewall Manager, and third-party tools
• When building automated remediation workflows triggered by security findings
• When executive stakeholders require a security compliance dashboard across the organization

Do not use for real-time threat detection (use GuardDuty), for vulnerability scanning (use Inspector), or for data classification (use Macie). Security Hub aggregates findings from these services but does not replace them.

Prerequisites

• AWS Organizations with delegated administrator for Security Hub
• IAM permissions for securityhub:*, config:*, events:*, and lambda:*
• AWS Config enabled in all target accounts and regions (required by Security Hub)
• CloudFormation StackSets or Terraform for multi-account deployment
• SNS topics configured for alert routing to security team