Part 3 MongoDB security and operations
Imagine waking up to an alert that sensitive customer data has been exposed, or finding out that a misconfigured permission allowed someone to delete your production database, or realizing too late that your backups stopped running a week ago. Security and operational excellence aren’t technical requirements alone; they’re also the foundation of trust between your application and your users.
As applications grow more complex and teams become more distributed, keeping your data secure and your systems healthy becomes more important and more difficult. MongoDB Atlas was built with this reality in mind. It helps you develop quickly—and safely.
This part of the book focuses on the critical aspects of security, monitoring, backup, and performance optimization in MongoDB and Atlas. You’ll learn how to build systems that are fast, scalable, resilient, compliant, and auditable.
In chapter 20, you’ll dive deep into the security features offered by MongoDB and Atlas, from authentication and authorization to encryption at rest and in transit. You’ll see how Atlas helps you enforce best practices by default. You’ll explore field-level encryption, key management integration (KMS), private networking, and features such as Queryable Encryption that let you search over encrypted data while meeting strict compliance standards.