Security overview

The Security section includes settings for security-related features, such as password hashing, cache poisoning, and securing the cron.php file.

Security resources

The topics in the Security section of the Configuration guide are not comprehensive across all Commerce functionality. There are many important security-related topics in other Commerce guides, such as:

  • PHP Developer guide for information that Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source developers can use to improve the security of the components that they build.
  • Security and Compliance guide for information about security, privacy, and regulation compliance, with links to technical resources.

Several security-related topics that were included in the Configuration guide at one time, are now located in the following guides:

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