diff --git a/conf/yunohost/yunohost-portal-api.service b/conf/yunohost/yunohost-portal-api.service
index 0ba6e8b3d..006af0080 100644
--- a/conf/yunohost/yunohost-portal-api.service
+++ b/conf/yunohost/yunohost-portal-api.service
@@ -4,11 +4,45 @@ After=network.target
 
 [Service]
 User=ynh-portal
+Group=ynh-portal
 Type=simple
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/yunohost-portal-api
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=5
 TimeoutStopSec=30
 
+# Sandboxing options to harden security
+# Details for these options: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
+NoNewPrivileges=yes
+PrivateTmp=yes
+PrivateDevices=yes
+RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_UNIX AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_NETLINK
+RestrictNamespaces=yes
+RestrictRealtime=yes
+DevicePolicy=closed
+ProtectClock=yes
+ProtectHostname=yes
+ProtectProc=invisible
+ProtectSystem=full
+ProtectControlGroups=yes
+ProtectKernelModules=yes
+ProtectKernelTunables=yes
+LockPersonality=yes
+SystemCallArchitectures=native
+SystemCallFilter=~@clock @debug @module @mount @obsolete @reboot @setuid @swap @cpu-emulation @privileged
+
+# Denying access to capabilities that should not be relevant
+# Doc: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_RAWIO CAP_MKNOD
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL CAP_AUDIT_READ CAP_AUDIT_WRITE
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_BOOT CAP_SYS_TIME CAP_SYS_MODULE CAP_SYS_PACCT
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_LEASE CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE CAP_IPC_LOCK
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND CAP_WAKE_ALARM
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_MAC_ADMIN CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_NET_ADMIN CAP_NET_BROADCAST CAP_NET_RAW
+CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_SYS_PTRACE CAP_SYSLOG
+
+
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target