A Survey on Security Threats and Mitigation Strategies for NoSQL Databases MongoDB as a Use Case

With the advent of IoT devices, cloud computing, accessible mobile devices, social networking sites and other advancements in technology a huge amount of data is being generated. NoSQL databases were evolved to provide a better storage capability, scalability, improved performance for read and write operations for the enormous data generated by various systems which are continuously being read and written by large number of users. Initially it was believed to provide better security in comparison to the traditional relational database management system (RDBMS), but in due course of time NoSQL databases were also exposed to various security breaches and vulnerabilities. In this paper we studied in detail the various security vulnerabilities of MongoDB, along with the need to secure the interfaces being used to access MongoDB. We analyzed the prevention and mitigation strategies for the same. The study of this paper can be used as a best practice to secure NoSQL or MongoDB database. It suggests how to secure the queries and all the interfaces that are being used to access the database.