seahaven-account-baseline

Account-level security and governance baseline for Sea Haven Industries (AWS account 328440206208), managed as a single CDK TypeScript app. Most resources are in us-east-1; the offsite backup vault is in us-west-2. This is where account-wide detective and recovery controls live, so they are versioned, reviewed, and drift-checked like any other stack.

Stacks (all deployed by cdk deploy --all / the CD workflow):

Stack	Region	Purpose
seahaven-account-baseline	us-east-1	CloudTrail + future detective controls (C-1)
seahaven-backup	us-east-1	Primary AWS Backup vault + plan + role (C-7)
seahaven-backup-offsite	us-west-2	Governance-locked offsite copy vault (C-7)

What it deploys

CloudTrail (audit finding C-1)

Resource	Logical ID	Notes
Multi-region trail	Trail (seahaven-org-trail)	Management events read+write, global service events, log-file validation on
Log bucket	TrailLogBucket (seahaven-cloudtrail-logs-328440206208)	Private (Block Public Access all), SSE-KMS, versioned, TLS-only, Object Lock GOVERNANCE 365d, lifecycle (Glacier @90d, expire @365d), server access logging → seahaven-s3-access-logs
KMS CMK	TrailKey (alias/cloudtrail-logs)	Encrypts log files; automatic rotation enabled
CloudWatch Logs group	created by the L2 Trail	365-day retention; this is the group the CIS Section 4 metric filters (H-1) attach to

Data flow: API activity across all regions → CloudTrail → (a) KMS-encrypted, Object-Locked S3 bucket for durable/tamper-resistant storage and (b) CloudWatch Logs for real-time querying and metric-filter alarms.

Compliance impact: closes CIS 3.1 (multi-region trail), 3.2 (log-file validation), 3.4 (CloudWatch Logs integration), 3.6 (bucket access logging), 3.7 (KMS CMK encryption), and 3.8 (CMK rotation). Unblocks CIS Section 4 / finding H-1 (metric filters + alarms now have a log group to target).

Design decisions

• Management events only. Object-level S3/Lambda data events (CIS 3.10/3.11) are deferred to control cost; revisit with targeted S3 write data events on sensitive buckets (payments / accounting / kb) if needed.
• Object Lock GOVERNANCE, not COMPLIANCE. Tamper-resistant but still deletable by a principal holding s3:BypassGovernanceRetention — avoids the irreversibility of COMPLIANCE mode. Revisit if a stricter posture is required.
• RETAIN on the bucket and KMS key so a stack teardown never destroys the audit trail.

AWS Backup (audit finding C-7)

Phase 1 ("critical data first") of fixing the account's complete lack of AWS Backup. Protects the data stores with no offsite leg today and copies each recovery point cross-region into a governance-locked vault.

Resource	Logical ID	Notes
Primary vault	seahaven-primary (us-east-1)	KMS-CMK encrypted, unlocked (working copy), RETAIN
Offsite vault	seahaven-offsite (us-west-2)	KMS-CMK encrypted, Vault Lock GOVERNANCE (min-retention 30d, no cooling-off window), RETAIN
Backup plan	seahaven-critical-daily	Daily 06:00 UTC, delete-after 35d, cross-region CopyAction → offsite (retain 90d)
Service role	seahaven-backup-service-role	Backup-only (Backup + S3-Backup managed policies); restore perms intentionally deferred

Phase-1 scope (selected by explicit ARN, not tags, to avoid drifting other stacks): RDS proposal-system-db, DynamoDB PaymentsDashboard, DynamoDB purchase-orders, S3 accounting.seahaven.com, seahaven-payments-csv-328440206208, google-workspace-seahavenind.com. (RDS database-1 was originally in this set but was retired 2026-06-03 — audit H-19, idle 0 conn/60d — and removed from the selection; its final encrypted recovery point is retained in seahaven-offsite for 7 years.)

Coexists with existing EBS DLM snapshots and DynamoDB PITR — it supplements them with the missing offsite + immutable leg; it does not replace them.

Design decisions:

• Governance lock first, not compliance. Recovery points can't be silently deleted, but a principal with explicit permission can still intervene while we validate. Graduate to COMPLIANCE (irreversible) later by adding changeableFor to the offsite vault lock + redeploy.
• Backup-only role. Restore policies and allowRestores are not granted; restores get a separate audited path once a restore-test process exists.

Pre-deploy gates (must clear before the first scheduled run):

1. Enable S3 versioning on seahaven-payments-csv-328440206208 and google-workspace-seahavenind.com (accounting.seahaven.com already has it, audit C-9), or their jobs fail silently (folds in H-21).
2. database-1 is unencrypted (H-19): smoke-test an on-demand backup + copy of it to us-west-2 first; if the copy fails, encrypt it or drop it from the copy.
3. Enable DynamoDB PITR (H-7) on the two tables for between-window recovery.

AWS Backup phase 2 (audit Day 4)

Expands the same seahaven-critical-daily plan to every remaining data store, so all of DynamoDB + EBS get the offsite + immutable leg ("offsite for everything").

Resource	Logical ID	Notes
Phase-2 selection	Plan/Phase2Resources (phase2-offsite-everything)	Same plan, same seahaven-backup-service-role, same daily + cross-region copy rule

Phase-2 scope: the 15 remaining DynamoDB tables (all except the two phase-1 financial tables + the deleted ledgerflow tables) and all 9 in-use EBS volumes, again by explicit ARN — tag-based selection was deliberately avoided because the file-share volumes are standalone-managed and the tables are owned by other stacks, so tagging here would drift them.

No IAM change: AWSBackupServiceRolePolicyForBackup already grants the DynamoDB/RDS/EBS backup actions, so phase 2 reuses the phase-1 role unchanged (cross-reviewed, no BLOCK).

Known tradeoff (→ Jira INFRA-31): explicit-ARN EBS entries go stale if a volume is replaced (new volume id), silently dropping it from backup. Migrating the EBS portion to tag-based selection (with the tag codified in each owning stack) is the resilient follow-up; scheduled drift detection is the interim backstop.

Also enabled outside this stack (audit H-7, via CLI — codify per stack → INFRA-30): PITR + DeletionProtectionEnabled on 12 more DynamoDB tables (account-wide PITR now 19/21).

Detective controls + budget (audit Day 1)

Account-level detective layer, in lib/detective-controls.ts, plus the cost budget in lib/governance-toggles.ts. Scope is us-east-1 only (all workloads live here); multi-region coverage is a follow-up.

Resource	Logical ID	Finding	Notes
Config delivery bucket	seahaven-config-328440206208	H-2	Private (BPA all), SSE-S3, versioned, TLS-only, 365d lifecycle
Config recorder role	seahaven-config-recorder-role	H-2	AWS_ConfigRole + scoped S3 delivery; IAM cross-reviewed
GuardDuty detector	DetectiveControls/GuardDutyDetector	H-3	Findings every 15 min
Security Hub	DetectiveControls/SecurityHub	H-4	FSBP v1.0.0 + CIS v3.0.0; controls evaluate once Config is recording
Access Analyzer	seahaven-account-analyzer	M-5	ACCOUNT external-access analyzer (free)
Monthly budget	GovernanceToggles/MonthlyCostBudget (seahaven-monthly-cost)	M-10	$1,200/mo, 80%/100% actual + 100% forecast → adam@seahavenind.com

Config recorder + delivery channel are NOT in CloudFormation. The L1 AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder is a stabilizing resource that hangs the stack: it never reaches CREATE_COMPLETE until recording is active, which needs a delivery channel, which can't be created until the recorder completes — a deadlock (hit on 2026-06-01). The role + delivery bucket stay in IaC (the role is cross-reviewed); the recorder/channel are created via CLI (below), referencing the stack's ConfigRecorderRoleArn output and the seahaven-config-328440206208 bucket.

CLI-applied governance toggles (no CloudFormation resource)

These account toggles have no native CloudFormation resource, so they are applied via CLI and recorded here. Applied 2026-06-01.

# M-3  EBS encryption-by-default (new volumes; existing 5 plaintext volumes are H-19-adjacent)
aws ec2 enable-ebs-encryption-by-default --region us-east-1

# M-6  Inspector2 (EC2 + Lambda + ECR)
aws inspector2 enable --resource-types EC2 LAMBDA ECR --region us-east-1

# M-7  IAM password policy (CIS 1.8/1.9): >=14 chars, full complexity, no reuse of last 24
aws iam update-account-password-policy \
  --minimum-password-length 14 \
  --require-symbols --require-numbers \
  --require-uppercase-characters --require-lowercase-characters \
  --allow-users-to-change-password --password-reuse-prevention 24

# M-11  Activate cost-allocation tags (only activates keys already seen on resources)
aws ce update-cost-allocation-tags-status --cost-allocation-tags-status \
  'TagKey=Project,Status=Active' 'TagKey=Owner,Status=Active' 'TagKey=Environment,Status=Active'

L-8 (billing-metrics preference) is OUTSTANDING — console only. Enabling the CloudWatch EstimatedCharges metric in us-east-1 requires turning on Receive Billing Alerts under Billing → Billing preferences; there is no public API/CLI. The M-10 budget already provides cost alerting independent of that metric, so this only affects the legacy AWS-MonthlyBilling CloudWatch alarm (L-8).

Monitoring + logging (audit Day 2)

Resource	Logical ID	Finding	Notes
CIS metric filters + alarms	CisMonitoring/*	H-1	15 filters (CIS 4.1–4.15) on the CloudTrail log group, each with an alarm → seahaven-cis-alarms. ALARM-only actions (no OK). 4.16 = Security Hub (Day 1)
CIS alarm topic	seahaven-cis-alarms	H-1	SNS, SSE (alias/aws/sns), email sub to adam@seahavenind.com
VPC flow logs	FlowLogs/FlowLog0..4	H-14	ALL traffic on all 5 VPCs → S3
Flow-logs bucket	seahaven-vpc-flow-logs-328440206208	H-14	Private, SSE-S3, TLS-only, Glacier @90d / expire @365d; delivery bucket policy cross-reviewed
SES config set	seahaven-email-events	M-13	Bounce/complaint/reject → CloudWatch metrics for reputation visibility

H-1 log group: the metric filters attach to the existing CloudTrail CloudWatch Logs group by name (seahaven-account-baseline-TrailLogGroup4CBE3AF5-…), imported read-only so the live audit trail is never replaced. Stable unless the Trail is recreated.

H-14 bucket policy note: the flow-logs delivery policy keeps s3:x-amz-acl=bucket-owner-full-control and the arn:aws:logs:…:* source-ARN wildcard — both are required by AWS's documented flow-logs-to-S3 policy (flow-logs-s3-permissions.html). A cross-review suggested dropping them; that was rejected as it would break delivery. s3:ListBucket was dropped (not needed).

M-13 follow-up: associate seahaven-email-events as the default config set on the live sending identities to capture events from existing senders:

aws sesv2 put-email-identity-configuration-set-attributes \
  --email-identity int.seahaven.com --configuration-set-name seahaven-email-events

Log-group retention + alarm wiring (audit L-4, L-5)

Applied via CLI (auto-created groups spread across stacks; one alarm in another stack). Applied 2026-06-02.

# L-4  90-day retention on the 13 never-expire log groups (CodeBuild + CDK helpers)
for lg in <the 13 groups>; do aws logs put-retention-policy --log-group-name "$lg" --retention-in-days 90; done

# L-5  wire the actionless forgejo backup-verification alarm to site-alerts
aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name forgejo-backup-verification-errors \
  --alarm-actions arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:328440206208:site-alerts  # (preserve existing alarm config)

Roadmap (same stack)

Detective layer multi-region expansion (GuardDuty/Config/Security Hub beyond us-east-1). Backup: phase 2 is deployed (see above); remaining is migrating the phase-2 EBS entries to tag-based selection (INFRA-31) and graduating the offsite vault to compliance mode.

Deploy

CI/CD via the org reusable workflows (ci-typescript-cdk.yaml, cd-cdk.yaml); pushes to main deploy through the OIDC role in secrets.AWS_DEPLOY_ROLE_ARN. Local: npm ci && npm run build && npx cdk diff.

npx cdk deploy seahaven-account-baseline

Verify

aws cloudtrail get-trail-status --name seahaven-org-trail        # IsLogging: true
aws cloudtrail describe-trails --trail-name-list seahaven-org-trail
aws cloudtrail validate-logs --trail-arn <arn> --start-time <t>  # digest integrity

AWS Backup (C-7):

aws backup list-backup-vaults                                    # seahaven-primary
aws backup list-backup-vaults --region us-west-2                 # seahaven-offsite
aws backup describe-backup-vault --backup-vault-name seahaven-offsite --region us-west-2  # Locked, MinRetentionDays
aws backup get-backup-plan --backup-plan-id <id>                 # daily rule + CopyAction
# Smoke test: on-demand backup of one resource, then confirm the cross-region copy lands
aws backup start-backup-job --backup-vault-name seahaven-primary \
  --resource-arn arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:328440206208:db:proposal-system-db \
  --iam-role-arn arn:aws:iam::328440206208:role/seahaven-backup-service-role
aws backup list-copy-jobs --region us-west-2                     # copy to offsite present + COMPLETED
# Phase-2 selections live on the plan:
aws backup list-backup-selections --backup-plan-id <id> --query 'BackupSelectionsList[].SelectionName'  # critical-data + phase2-offsite-everything

Detective layer + governance (Day 1):

aws configservice describe-configuration-recorder-status         # recording: true
aws guardduty list-detectors                                     # one detector id
aws securityhub get-enabled-standards                            # FSBP + CIS v3.0.0
aws accessanalyzer list-analyzers                                # seahaven-account-analyzer ACTIVE
aws inspector2 batch-get-account-status --region us-east-1       # ec2/ecr/lambda ENABLED
aws iam get-account-password-policy                              # length 14, reuse 24
aws ec2 get-ebs-encryption-by-default --region us-east-1         # EbsEncryptionByDefault: true
aws budgets describe-budgets --account-id 328440206208           # seahaven-monthly-cost $1,200
aws ce list-cost-allocation-tags --status Active                 # Project/Owner/Environment Active