MongoDB Recipes: With Data Modeling and Query Building Strategies

© Subhashini Chellappan and Dharanitharan Ganesan 2020

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8. MongoDB Security

Subhashini Chellappan¹  and Dharanitharan Ganesan²

(1)

Bangalore, India

(2)

Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India

 

In Chapter 7, we discussed monitoring and backup methods in MongoDB. In this chapter, we are going to discuss the security features of MongoDB.

Authentication and Authorization

Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of the user, whereas authorization or access control determines the verified user’s access to resources and operations.

MongoDB supports the following various authentication mechanisms for verifying the identity of the user.

• SCRAM: This is the default authentication ...