diff --git a/incubator/cassandra/Chart.yaml b/incubator/cassandra/Chart.yaml
index 729825130e42..d3addb6ec52a 100644
--- a/incubator/cassandra/Chart.yaml
+++ b/incubator/cassandra/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: cassandra
-version: 0.2.2
+version: 0.2.3
 description: Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed database management
   system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing
   high availability with no single point of failure.
diff --git a/incubator/cassandra/templates/cassandra-statefulset.yaml b/incubator/cassandra/templates/cassandra-statefulset.yaml
index 0b812f611da7..e726554b47ac 100644
--- a/incubator/cassandra/templates/cassandra-statefulset.yaml
+++ b/incubator/cassandra/templates/cassandra-statefulset.yaml
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ spec:
 {{- if .Values.selector }}
 {{ toYaml .Values.selector | indent 6 }}
 {{- end }}
+      {{- if .Values.securityContext.enabled }}
+      securityContext:
+        fsGroup: {{ .Values.securityContext.fsGroup }}
+        runAsUser: {{ .Values.securityContext.runAsUser }}
+      {{- end }}
       containers:
       - name: {{ template "cassandra.fullname" . }}
         image: "{{ .Values.image.repo }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"
diff --git a/incubator/cassandra/values.yaml b/incubator/cassandra/values.yaml
index a12c3692a386..9fe359917900 100644
--- a/incubator/cassandra/values.yaml
+++ b/incubator/cassandra/values.yaml
@@ -75,3 +75,9 @@ podLabels: {}
 podManagementPolicy: OrderedReady
 updateStrategy:
   type: OnDelete
+
+## Pod Security Context
+securityContext:
+  enabled: false
+  fsGroup: 999
+  runAsUser: 999