# Security Hub

* Security Hub provides you with a **comprehensive view of your security state in AWS** and helps you **check your environment against security industry standards and best practices**.

* Security Hub collects security data from across AWS accounts, services, and supported third-party partner products and **helps you analyse your security trends** and **identify the highest priority security issues**.

## Using Organizations to manage accounts <a href="#securityhub-prereq-orgs" id="securityhub-prereq-orgs"></a>

* To help **automate and streamline management of accounts**, Security Hub strongly recommends that you enable Organizations.

* If you have Organizations enabled, then **Security Hub automatically detects new accounts as they are added to your organization**.

* After you set up your organization, your **organization management account designates the Security Hub administrator account**.

## Enabling and configuring Config <a href="#securityhub-prereq-config" id="securityhub-prereq-config"></a>

* Security Hub uses **service-linked AWS Config rules to perform most of its security checks for controls**.\\

* **Security Hub does not manage Config for you**.\\

  * If you already have Config enabled, you can **continue to configure its settings through the Config console or APIs**.
