Security Concepts¶

These documents introduce and address concepts and strategies related to security practices in MongoDB deployments.

Authentication: Mechanisms for verifying user and instance access to MongoDB.
Authorization: Control access to MongoDB instances using authorization.
Collection-Level Access Control: Scope privileges to specific collections.
Network Exposure and Security: Discusses potential security risks related to the network and strategies for decreasing possible network-based attack vectors for MongoDB.
Security and MongoDB API Interfaces: Discusses potential risks related to MongoDB’s JavaScript, HTTP and REST interfaces, including strategies to control those risks.
Auditing: Audit server and client activity for mongod and mongos instances.
Kerberos Authentication: Kerberos authentication and MongoDB.

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