# Securing Your MongoDB Database

DevFeed: [Securing Your MongoDB Database](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/securing-your-mongodb-database-29670.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/hardening-mongodb/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Kainaat Arshad)

Published: 2022-05-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [MongoDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mongodb.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [SSL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssl.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

Tags: [bastion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bastion.md>), [bastion-host](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bastion-host.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [hardening](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardening.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [mongodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mongodb.md>), [network-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network-security.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on securing MongoDB deployments, covering self-hosted MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas. It discusses network security, TLS/SSL transport encryption, database privileges, firewalls, and SSH reverse tunneling through a bastion host.

## Source excerpt

How to secure your MongoDB database for both self-hosted and MongoDB Atlas deployments.