[jwklemm]

I'd first make sure that MongoDB is locked down in your firewall. Only open port 27017 to the IPs that need it (app, secondaries, etc).

I've found Mongo's authorization setup to be pretty unintuitive, but you can find some information here: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/authorization/ (IIRC, you need to setup the permissions first, then set "auth=true" in mongod.conf and restart the service.)