diff --git a/memcached/templates/monitoring/prometheus/exporter-deployment.yaml b/memcached/templates/monitoring/prometheus/exporter-deployment.yaml
index 8a477d94e..33fda3965 100644
--- a/memcached/templates/monitoring/prometheus/exporter-deployment.yaml
+++ b/memcached/templates/monitoring/prometheus/exporter-deployment.yaml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ spec:
 {{ tuple $envAll "prometheus_memcached_exporter" "exporter" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_metadata_labels" | indent 8 }}
       namespace: {{ .Values.endpoints.prometheus_memcached_exporter.namespace }}
     spec:
+{{ dict "envAll" $envAll "application" "memcached_exporter" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_pod_security_context" | indent 6 }}
       shareProcessNamespace: true
       serviceAccountName: {{ $rcControllerName | quote }}
       nodeSelector:
@@ -52,6 +53,8 @@ spec:
           image: {{ .Values.images.tags.prometheus_memcached_exporter }}
           imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.images.pull_policy }}
 {{ tuple $envAll $envAll.Values.pod.resources.prometheus_memcached_exporter | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_resources" | indent 10 }}
+          securityContext:
+            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
           command:
             - /tmp/memcached-exporter.sh
             - start
diff --git a/memcached/values.yaml b/memcached/values.yaml
index 9ca41237b..3ff5bfe3e 100644
--- a/memcached/values.yaml
+++ b/memcached/values.yaml
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ manifests:
       service_exporter: true
 
 pod:
+  user:
+    memcached_exporter:
+      uid: 65534
   affinity:
     anti:
       topologyKey: