Introduction to Spring Security
Explore the fundamentals of Spring Security, focusing on authentication and authorization mechanisms within Spring Boot applications. Learn how to add basic security with default settings, understand generated user credentials, and navigate login and logout processes. This lesson sets the foundation for implementing customized and scalable application security.
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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:
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Authentication: Determines whether a user is who they claim to be. In simple terms, this function verifies that the username and password match.
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Authorization: Once we know who the user is, we need to ...