AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess

Summary

Grants permission to enable and manage AWS Security Hub within an organization. Includes enabling the service across the organization, and determining the delegated administrator account for the service.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v8

Created

2021-03-15

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

organizations

Control-plane actions (29)

By access level: 11 List, 3 Permissions management, 6 Read, 2 Tagging, 7 Write.

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

• Grants 12 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants permissions-management actions on organizations, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

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• AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly
• AmazonEKSDashboardServiceRolePolicy

Same domain

• AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy
• AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonCodeCatalystSupportAccess
• AmazonDevOpsGuruServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonEKSConnectorServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonEKSLocalOutpostClusterPolicy
• AmazonElasticFileSystemsUtils
• AmazonInspector2ThirdPartyServiceRolePolicy

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListParents",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:ListPolicies",
        "organizations:ListPoliciesForTarget",
        "organizations:ListTargetsForPolicy",
        "organizations:DescribeResourcePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationPermissionsEnable",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
            "securityhub.amazonaws.com",
            "inspector2.amazonaws.com",
            "guardduty.amazonaws.com",
            "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationPermissionsDelegatedAdmin",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:organizations::*:account/o-*/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
            "securityhub.amazonaws.com",
            "inspector2.amazonaws.com",
            "guardduty.amazonaws.com",
            "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationPolicyPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:DescribePolicy",
        "organizations:DescribeEffectivePolicy",
        "organizations:CreatePolicy",
        "organizations:UpdatePolicy",
        "organizations:DeletePolicy",
        "organizations:AttachPolicy",
        "organizations:DetachPolicy",
        "organizations:EnablePolicyType",
        "organizations:DisablePolicyType"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:root/o-*/*",
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:account/o-*/*",
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:ou/o-*/*",
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:policy/o-*/securityhub_policy/*",
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:policy/o-*/inspector_policy/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringLikeIfExists": {
          "organizations:PolicyType": [
            "SECURITYHUB_POLICY",
            "INSPECTOR_POLICY"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationPolicyTaggingPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:TagResource",
        "organizations:UntagResource",
        "organizations:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:policy/o-*/securityhub_policy/*",
        "arn:aws:organizations::*:policy/o-*/inspector_policy/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v8, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "awssecurityhuborganizationsaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSSecurityHubOrganizationsAccess
• Report a data issue