White Paper
MongoDB Security Architecture
This white paper details MongoDB’s end-to-end approach to securing modern application data against breaches, ransomware, unauthorized access, and other threats. It organizes security around people, processes, and platforms, with foundational controls covering authentication, authorization, auditing, encryption, and infrastructure protection. Best practices include unique credentials, centralized identity management, least-privilege role-based access, field-level restrictions, comprehensive audit trails, and encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced provides additional enterprise security controls, while MongoDB Atlas automates deployment, security implementation, backups, patching, scaling, monitoring, and geographically distributed resilience. The pap
