AEM Site Security & Hardening
Strengthening enterprise AEM platforms through layered security and proactive risk mitigation.
Background
Security is critical for any enterprise application, especially for public-facing digital platforms. Improper security configurations on AEM can expose systems to vulnerabilities, instability, and performance risks.
We help clients secure their AEM environments by strictly following Adobe-recommended security practices and implementing layered protection across server, dispatcher, and AEM instances.
Task
The objective was to assess and strengthen security across the entire AEM stack — from the web server and dispatcher configuration to AEM publish instance hardening — and to prevent misuse patterns that could degrade performance or compromise stability.
Solution
- Implemented Adobe-recommended server-side security configurations
- Applied dispatcher-level security rules and request filtering
- Hardened AEM instances against misuse and excessive load
- Audited and restricted selectors and URL patterns to prevent abuse
- Prevented combinatorial selector attacks that can overload publish instances
- Built a custom security tool for managing and controlling selector usage
- Enabled authors to configure security rules without requiring developer support
- Implemented monitoring and alerts for unusual traffic patterns
Results
- Reduced exposure to security vulnerabilities and misuse risks
- Improved stability and responsiveness of AEM publish instances
- Prevented selector-based abuse and automated traffic attacks
- Enabled secure operations without increasing authoring complexity
- Improved overall trust and reliability of the platform