Storing sensitive data in a MongoDB environment is critical for maintaining compliance and security, especially when dealing with customer names, social security numbers, and health records. To address this, it's essential to consider protecting not only database files but also associated ingress data, egress reports, configuration files, and log files, as sensitive information can appear beyond just the database itself. Additionally, organizations should blind privileged users, such as superusers or root accounts, from viewing actual data stored in these files while still allowing them access to meta file information. Furthermore, using an external key manager to separate key management from data and control who has access to keys is crucial for on-premise and cloud-based MongoDB workloads, especially when dealing with cloud service provider privileged users.