The tension between agility, security, and operational uptime is a common challenge for IT organizations. The perception that InfoSec and IT operations teams want to restrict developers' innovation by imposing old paradigms is outdated. In reality, InfoSec and DevOps teams aim for agile development with safety. The shared responsibility model enables this balance by abstracting granular controls from developers, allowing them to focus on building applications while secure defaults are in place at every level. This approach provides empowerment and confidence for developers, while ensuring the security necessary for SecOps and DevOps. By recognizing roles and responsibilities, cloud vendors like MongoDB must ensure security and availability, and customers must protect their data. The security defaults in MongoDB Atlas enable developers to be agile without sacrificing risk reduction.