Database Access

MongoDB databases deployed on the Atlas Cloud have several security features enabled by default, such as user access control. Database access control verifies user authentication credentials, such as the username and password. Therefore, even if network access is available from anywhere, you will still need to authenticate before successfully connecting to the MongoDB database in the cloud. This is necessary to protect databases deployed in the cloud from unauthorized access over the internet. More importantly, when compared with other security features, access control cannot be disabled for cloud databases and will always remain enabled.

Database access covers the following aspects of database security:

• Database users
• Database roles

When compared with other MongoDB installations, the management of user accounts in the Atlas Cloud is configured at the project level. Users created in one Atlas project are shared among all MongoDB database clusters...