# Symfony Cheat Sheet — Security-related Headers

> It's advisable to enhance the security of your Symfony application by adding to your responses essential security headers as Strict-Transport-Security X-Frame-Options X-Content-Type-Options Content-Security-Policy X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies Referrer-Policy Clear-Site-Data Cross-Origin-Embedde

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It's advisable to enhance the security of your Symfony application by adding to your responses essential security headers as

Strict-Transport-Security X-Frame-Options X-Content-Type-Options Content-Security-Policy X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies Referrer-Policy Clear-Site-Data Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy Cache-Control

To find more details about individual headers refer to the OWASP secure headers project.

In Symfony, you can add those headers either manually or automatically by listening the ResponseEvent to your to every response or configuring web servers like Nginx or Apache.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```php
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

$response = new Response();
$response-&gt;headers-&gt;set('X-Frame-Options', 'SAMEORIGIN');
```

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