Securing Experience Manager

Version: 9.0

Apply vendor best practices to all application roles, storage roles, and indexes. The following list of tasks are specific to Sitecore.

Application roles

Note

The XP Single topology technically supports a combined Content Delivery/Content Management role. This combination is not recommended in a production environment.

Secure the Content Delivery role

The following tasks apply to all core roles:

The following additional tasks should be performed on the Content Delivery role:

Secure the Content Management role

The following tasks apply to all core roles:

The following additional task should be performed on the Content Management role:

Secure the Content Publishing role

The following tasks should be performed on the Content Publishing role:

Enable HTTPS for the Content Publishing role

Storage Roles

Web database

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Master database

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Core database

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Private Session State Store

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Shared Session State Store

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Forms database

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Indexes

Web index

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Master index

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

Core index

No additional Sitecore-specific tasks.

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