diff --git a/harden_memcached.service.patch b/harden_memcached.service.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f39a3db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/harden_memcached.service.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Index: memcached-1.6.9/scripts/memcached.service
+===================================================================
+--- memcached-1.6.9.orig/scripts/memcached.service
++++ memcached-1.6.9/scripts/memcached.service
+@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SETGID CAP_SET
+ # Restricts the set of socket address families accessible to the processes
+ # of this unit. Protects against vulnerabilities such as CVE-2016-8655
+ RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX
++# added automatically, for details please see
++# https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Security_Features#Systemd_hardening_effort
++ProtectHome=true
++ProtectHostname=true
++ProtectClock=true
++ProtectKernelLogs=true
++# end of automatic additions 
+ 
+ 
+ # Some security features are not in the older versions of systemd used by
diff --git a/memcached.changes b/memcached.changes
index c44c81c..e3def22 100644
--- a/memcached.changes
+++ b/memcached.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct  6 12:01:19 UTC 2021 - Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@suse.com>
+
+- Added hardening to systemd service(s) (bsc#1181400). Added patch(es):
+  * harden_memcached.service.patch
+  Modified:
+  * memcached.service
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun  4 13:18:29 UTC 2021 - Callum Farmer <gmbr3@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/memcached.service b/memcached.service
index 4290b82..532a8e6 100644
--- a/memcached.service
+++ b/memcached.service
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@ Description=memcached daemon
 After=network.target
 
 [Service]
+# added automatically, for details please see
+# https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Security_Features#Systemd_hardening_effort
+ProtectSystem=full
+ProtectHome=true
+PrivateDevices=true
+ProtectHostname=true
+ProtectClock=true
+ProtectKernelTunables=true
+ProtectKernelModules=true
+ProtectKernelLogs=true
+ProtectControlGroups=true
+RestrictRealtime=true
+# end of automatic additions 
 EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/memcached
 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/memcached -u $MEMCACHED_USER $MEMCACHED_PARAMS
 
diff --git a/memcached.spec b/memcached.spec
index 44deb32..9baf479 100644
--- a/memcached.spec
+++ b/memcached.spec
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Source2:        %{name}.sysconfig
 Source3:        memcached-rpmlintrc
 Source4:        memcached.service
 Source5:        system-user-memcached.conf
+Patch0:	harden_memcached.service.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  cyrus-sasl-devel
@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ This package contains development files
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi