Secure your MongoDB surface
Network access lists open to the world, roles granting more than intended, and unencrypted clusters. We don’t connect to MongoDB to collect evidence for its own sake — we connect to secure it, and the compliance artefacts follow from that work.
Book a Demo[01] What This Surface Exposes
Where MongoDB goes wrong
MongoDB goes wrong at the network list: an access rule opened to 0.0.0.0/0 for debugging is how these clusters get found and breached.
- Network access lists permitting 0.0.0.0/0, which remains a leading cause of database breaches
- Database users with atlasAdmin or readWriteAnyDatabase where a scoped role would do
- Encryption at rest using provider-managed keys where you require your own
- Backups retained without encryption or classification
- Clusters in shared projects mixing production and development data
[02] What We Secure
What we watch, catch and fix on MongoDB
On MongoDB we audit the network access list continuously, because a temporary open rule rarely stays temporary.
- Network access list audited continuously, because a temporary open rule added for debugging is how these clusters get found
- Role scope reduced to specific databases and collections
- Encryption key ownership verified against requirement
- Backup classification and encryption checked
- Project separation reviewed as an environment boundary
[03] Where It Lands
Where MongoDB lands in your registers
Every datastore becomes an asset register entry carrying its data classification, encryption state, and retention position. Access reviews cover database roles and grants alongside application access. The risk register maps each store to the specific exposure it represents — a production replica in a development environment is a named risk against a named asset, with an owner and a date.
[04] How We Engage
On MongoDB specifically
On MongoDB, we close open network access rules immediately under agreed authority and reduce role scope. Cluster separation and key management migration we project-manage.
Platform licence
Everything you need to find and fix it yourself, with no ceiling on the depth of the answer.
- Every connected tool monitored for misconfiguration and drift, with findings mapped to the assets and risks they affect
- Remediation guidance that tells you what is wrong and exactly how to fix it — however deep or awkward the issue is. We are engineers running a security company, so the answer is the real one, not a link to vendor documentation
- Assets, access reviews, and risk register populated from the tools themselves rather than from spreadsheets
- Unlimited integrations and unlimited users, with anything missing built within two weeks
Managed service
Every tool you connect through Konfirmity comes under our care, with our team doing the work.
- Continuous misconfiguration and drift monitoring across every connected tool, watched by our analysts rather than by a dashboard waiting for you
- Incident response led by us, with containment coordinated with your team
- Remediation performed directly wherever you have granted us the authority to act — and where we cannot act, we project-manage the fix to completion rather than handing you a ticket
- Decision support on the tools themselves: where something is failing you on capability or costing more than it returns, we will tell you, and help you replace it
[05] MongoDB FAQs
What MongoDB access does Konfirmity need?
Konfirmity needs for Atlas, an organisation API key with read-only project access covering clusters, network access lists and database users. For self-managed deployments, a user with clusterMonitor. Either way we read configuration, not collections.
Why is 0.0.0.0/0 treated as urgent?
Because exposed MongoDB instances are actively and continuously scanned for across the internet. An open access rule combined with weak authentication has produced some of the largest data breaches on record, so we treat it as an immediate finding rather than a scheduled one.
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