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Feb 20, 2025
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Moving to TLS 1.2 for Azure Cosmos DB: Ensuring Secure Connections

Iria Osara
Iria Osara

Security and reliability are at the core of modern cloud applications. To strengthen data protection and align with industry best practices, we encourage all Azure Cosmos DB customers to transition to TLS 1.2. This post explains why this change is important, how to make the transition, and the benefits it brings to your applications. Why Move to T...

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Nov 19, 2024
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New RBAC Features for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

We’re excited to announce a major security enhancement for the vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Integration for Secondary Users with Read/Read Write Privileges. Now available in public preview, this feature enables organizations to control data access with greater precision while preserving the flexibility a...

SecurityAnnouncementsAzure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
May 9, 2024
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Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB accounts!

Dileep Rao
Dileep Rao

Encryption options for data at rest on Azure Cosmos DB that is available today. Azure Cosmos DB strives to provide the best-in-class security features. Encryption of data at rest is one such important security feature. Encryption of data at rest using Microsoft's service-managed keys is enabled by default. In addition to this default encrypti...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLSecurity
Mar 13, 2024
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Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore is Generally Available!

Khelan Modi
Khelan Modi

You can now use private endpoints for your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore clusters to allow hosts on a virtual network (VNet) to securely access data over a Private Link. The cluster's private endpoint utilizes an IP address from the virtual network's address space, ensuring that traffic between hosts on the virtual network and the database n...

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDBSecurity
Jul 19, 2022
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Role-based access control in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB: Now in preview

Richa Gaur
Richa Gaur

Role based access control (RBAC) is a much-needed capability in any database for enterprises. It lets you simplify your access control mechanism without added management. We have introduced RBAC in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB, which allows you to: How does it work? API for MongoDB RBAC is built on concepts that are commonly found ...

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDBSecurity
Mar 21, 2022
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Upcoming changes to Azure Cosmos DB TLS certificates

Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss

Microsoft is updating Azure services to use TLS certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs). Follow these steps to see if your application is affected, and update your TLS certificates to prevent disruption to your Azure Cosmos DB account.

SecurityAnnouncements
Jul 29, 2021
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A tour of Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB

Santosh Kulkarni
Santosh Kulkarni

Always encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB provides encryption support on the client-side to protect sensitive data by encrypting data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers, before it gets transferred over the wire to be stored in Azure Cosmos DB. Always encrypted allows clients to protect JSON property values which are deemed se...

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Mar 2, 2021
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Continuous backup with point in time restore now in preview

Govind Kanshi
Govind Kanshi

Azure Cosmos DB now offers continuous backup with point-in-time restore capabilities. This feature can help to recover your database from accidental delete of accounts, containers or mutation of data. The restore can be accomplished through a wide area of tools available on the platform.

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