Key Security Features
MarkLogic Server offers advanced enterprise data security controls that are beyond what any multi-model database offers. Data loss prevention and other security principals are central to what we do.
Secure by default
Security is not a feature that needs to be turned on and configured. When data is loaded, it is immediately secured.
Integration with LDAP, Kerberos, SAML
MarkLogic has scalable controls for authentication, ensuring that the system easily integrates into your environment.
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
MarkLogic has granular access controls to govern what a user can do and see. Each user is associated with any number of roles, and each role is given privileges that determine what they can do. Also, each document has permissions dictating which roles can see and edit it. Security checks verify the necessary credentials before granting the requested action, and security information is stored in a specific security database in MarkLogic.
Element/Property Level Security
MarkLogic secures data at the collection level, document level, and even element/property level (like cell-level security in a relational database). This goes beyond what other document databases provide as it’s very hard to engineer on the back-end and maintain performance, but MarkLogic does it.
Built-in Auditing
MarkLogic closely monitors database activity and makes it possible to audit document access and updates, configuration changes, administrative actions, code execution, and changes to access control.
Advanced Encryption
Cutting-edge data encryption protects against unauthorized access of the database by a SysAdmin or Storage Admin. It allows data, configuration, and logs to be encrypted while the files are resting on disk using AES-256 encryption, and it conforms to FIPS 140 criteria.
Additional Security Models
In addition to RBAC, MarkLogic can also employ other security models such as Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC), or Label-Based Access Control (LBAC). These models further restrict access based on attributes (e.g., social security number, IP address, user’s age, or time of day), policies, or simple labels representing “high” or “low” levels of trust.
Advanced Security Add-Ons
Out-of-the-box, MarkLogic provides you with the industry-leading security you need. But your organization may require the Advanced Security add-on, which includes three additional capabilities.
MarkLogic Server Security White Papers
Learn more about MarkLogic’s robust security features, including how we build a secure product, how to develop secure apps on MarkLogic, and how to deploy MarkLogic securely.
MarkLogic deployments are architected to ensure complete data privacy. That is why when you’re using MarkLogic Server, no one except those you authorize ever get access to the data you store in MarkLogic. Ever.
For self-managed MarkLogic deployments, MarkLogic support teams may get access to authorized telemetry data that includes performance data, configuration data, and log data in order to more quickly solve support problems. The telemetry feature can be easily toggled on or off.
Data Compliance
MarkLogic Server is in production on mission-critical systems with demanding security requirements, which is why the database has achieved top security certifications from various third parties.
Common Criteria
International standard (ISO/IEC 15408) for a common set of functional and assurance security requirements, evaluated by licensed labs.
MarkLogic is the only non-relational database to have this.
STIG
Documented guidelines for deploying in U.S. DoD/DISA IT systems that provide guidance on how to set up and configure a product.
MarkLogic has been “STIG’d” for multiple US federal projects. Broad STIG approval from DISA expected in early 2020.
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in May 2018 with the goal of strengthening personal data protection in Europe.
MarkLogic complies with GDPR, and helps customers comply with GDPR.
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