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- Security Concepts
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
andmongos
instances. - Kerberos Authentication
- Kerberos authentication and MongoDB.