NoSQL Security Cheat Sheet — Authentication & Authorization

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Enable authentication (do not run databases unauthenticated). Use role-based access control (RBAC), least privilege for service accounts. Use separate users for admin/backup/readonly/application. Use identity federation or short-lived credentials when supported (e.g., AWS IAM -> DynamoDB). For more information please check following cheat sheets Authentication Cheat Sheet Authorization Cheat Sheet Attribution: Adapted from OWASP Cheat Sheet Series under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.