diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/PolicyChecker.java b/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/PolicyChecker.java
index 6f6e3d255..4f23e928c 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/PolicyChecker.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/PolicyChecker.java
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@
 import org.verapdf.core.VeraPDFException;
 import org.verapdf.core.utils.FileUtils;
 
-import javax.xml.transform.Templates;
-import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
-import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
-import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
+import javax.xml.transform.*;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
 import java.io.*;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 /**
  * The veraPDF policy checker which is simply an abstraction that makes applying
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@
  * @version 0.1 Created 12 Dec 2016:17:51:12
  */
 public final class PolicyChecker {
-	private static final TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+
+	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(PolicyChecker.class.getCanonicalName());
+
+	private static final TransformerFactory factory = getTransformerFactory();
 	public static final String SCHEMA_EXT = "sch"; //$NON-NLS-1$
 	public static final String XSL_EXT = "xsl"; //$NON-NLS-1$
 	public static final String XSLT_EXT = "xslt"; //$NON-NLS-1$
@@ -204,4 +207,15 @@ private static void applySchematronXsl(final InputStream schematronXsl, final In
 		Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(schematronXsl));
 		transformer.transform(new StreamSource(xmlReport), new StreamResult(policyReport));
 	}
+
+	private static TransformerFactory getTransformerFactory() {
+		TransformerFactory fact = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+		try {
+			fact.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
+			fact.setAttribute(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET, "file");
+		} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
+			LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Unable to secure xsl transformer");
+		}
+		return fact;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/SchematronPipeline.java b/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/SchematronPipeline.java
index 663e77bc5..f3114f1bf 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/SchematronPipeline.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/policy/SchematronPipeline.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 package org.verapdf.policy;
 
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
 import javax.xml.transform.*;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
@@ -31,8 +32,7 @@
  */
 
 final class SchematronPipeline {
-	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger
-			.getLogger(SchematronPipeline.class.getName());
+	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(SchematronPipeline.class.getName());
 
 	static final ClassLoader cl = SchematronPipeline.class.getClassLoader();
 	private static final TransformerFactory factory = getTransformerFactory();
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ private static File createTempFileResult(final Transformer transformer, final St
 
 	private static TransformerFactory getTransformerFactory() {
 		TransformerFactory fact = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+		try {
+			fact.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
+			fact.setAttribute(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET, "file");
+		} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
+			LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Unable to secure xsl transformer");
+		}
 		fact.setURIResolver(new ClasspathResourceURIResolver());
 		return fact;
 	}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/report/XsltTransformer.java b/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/report/XsltTransformer.java
index 4da53c9f4..dfb14b327 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/report/XsltTransformer.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/verapdf/report/XsltTransformer.java
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
 import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
@@ -34,8 +38,11 @@
  * @author Maksim Bezrukov
  */
 public final class XsltTransformer {
-	private static final TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
 
+	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(XsltTransformer.class.getCanonicalName());
+
+	private static final TransformerFactory factory = getTransformerFactory();
+	
 	private XsltTransformer() {
 	}
 
@@ -68,4 +75,15 @@ public static void transform(InputStream source, InputStream xslt, PrintWriter d
 
 		transformer.transform(new StreamSource(source), new StreamResult(destination));
 	}
+
+	private static TransformerFactory getTransformerFactory() {
+		TransformerFactory fact = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+		try {
+			fact.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
+			fact.setAttribute(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET, "file");
+		} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
+			LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Unable to secure xsl transformer");
+		}
+		return fact;
+	}
 }