s in <a href=#control-tcp-egress-traffic-without-a-gateway>the previous section</a>, perform them now.</p></li><li><p>You may want to enable <span class=term data-title="Mutual TLS Authentication" data-body='<p>Mutual TLS provides strong service-to-service authentication with built-in identity and credential management.
<a href="/docs/concepts/security/#mutual-tls-authentication">Learn more about mutual TLS authentication</a>.</p>
'>mutual TLS Authentication</span> between the sidecar proxies of
your MongoD