Application security
Application security refers to the measures and practices used to protect applications from security threats and vulnerabilities. This includes safeguarding data, ensuring proper access controls, and preventing unauthorized actions within the application.
It involves two pillars: authentication, or who can access your database and data, and authorization, which determines the user’s level of allowed access in the database.
Security requires constant monitoring and reevaluation. As a MongoDB administrator, you must remain aware of what methods you’re using for application and data protection, best practices for these methods, and changes to them. The best security strategy both responds to incidents and proactively tries to prevent them.
To protect your data’s authentication, MongoDB offers support for multiple authentication methods, such as SCRAM and X.509 certification.
SCRAM
MongoDB’s default method for authentication...
