dbks

that is why you put your database behind a firewall and not expose its port to the public internet. There is really no need except for a handful of really edge cases where you have to expose the port to the internet even then you can limit the access to specific hosts only.

you might want to check out the tests conducted by Mark in his blog - https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2017/12/io-bound-linkbench-a.... There's a lot more there.