Introduction to Spring Security

Get introduced to the concept of security in a Spring application.

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This chapter will certainly not handle everything about Spring Security but will serve as an excellent introduction to get you started.

Security

Security, generally, consists of two major parts:

  • Authentication: Determines whether a user is who they claim to be. In simple terms, this function verifies that the username and password match.

  • Authorization: Once we know who ...