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Spring Security

You're reading from Spring Security Secure your web applications, RESTful services, and microservice architectures

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129511

Length 542 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (3):

Robert Winch

Peter Mularien

Mick Knutson

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Anatomy of an Unsafe Application FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Spring Security

3. Custom Authentication

4. JDBC-Based Authentication

5. Authentication with Spring Data

6. LDAP Directory Services

7. Remember-Me Services

8. Client Certificate Authentication with TLS

9. Opening up to OAuth 2

10. Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service

11. Fine-Grained Access Control

12. Access Control Lists

13. Custom Authorization

14. Session Management

15. Additional Spring Security Features

16. Migration to Spring Security 4.2

17. Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens

18. Additional Reference Material

Getting started with the JBCP calendar sample code

Microservice security

Microservices can provide great flexibility but also introduce challenges that must be addressed.

Service communication

Monolithic applications use in‑memory communication between processes, while microservices communicate over the network. The move to network communication raises issues of not only speed but also security.

Tight coupling

Microservices use many datastores rather than a few. This creates the opportunity for implicit service contracts between microservices and services that are tightly coupled.

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Authors (3)

Mick Knutson

Mick Knutson

Mick Knutson has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. As a passionate and experienced enterprise technology consultant, Java architect, and software developer, he looks forward to using his unique professional experience to help students learn about software development in an effective, practical, and convenient manner. Mick's real-world expertise comes from providing individuals and mid-to-large-size businesses with advanced software consulting and training. He has collaborated with many notable clients and partners including VMware, Spring Source, FuseSource, Global Knowledge, and Knowledge United. His technical expertise includes OOA/OOD/OOP, Java, Java EE, Spring Security, Oracle, Enterprise Integration, and Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM). As a veteran of the IT industry, Mick is determined to help as many people as possible and show that anyone can become a software developer. He has spoken around the world at training seminars, luncheons, book publishing engagements, and white paper engagements. He has authored several technical books and articles on Spring Security, Java EE 6, HTTP, and VisualVM. He is also a featured blogger at DZone, where he is part of the curated Most Valuable Blogger (MVB) group. Having lived and breathed software development for over two decades, Mick enjoys translating complex technical concepts into plain English for different audiences. Whether he is helping an experienced software professional or someone who is new to the field, he can simplify even the most intricate IT concepts. Mick's mission is to use his seasoned professional experience to help anyone who wants to learn about software development. As an expert and professional, Mick designs his training courses to make the learning experience as enriching, seamless, and convenient as possible so that you can master software development in the shortest amount of time. Learn from an expert. Mick warmly looks forward to helping you learn software development in the right way so that you can maximize both your money and your time. You can also refer to his following books: Spring Security Third Edition Distributed Configuration with Spring Cloud Config Java EE6 Cookbook HTTP Reference Card (DZone) VisualVM Reference Card (DZone) You can also refer to his video on BASELogic available on YouTube. You can also connect with him on the following social media sites: LinkedIn (mickknutson) Twitter (mickknutson) GitHub (mickknutson) Bitbucket (mickknutson) Udemy video series (MickKnutson) Facebook (BASELogic) Google+ (BASElogic)

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Mularien

Mularien

Peter Mularien is an experienced software architect and engineer, and the author of the book Spring Security 3, Packt Publishing. Peter currently works for a large financial services company and has over 12 years consulting and product experience in Java, Spring, Oracle, and many other enterprise technologies. He is also the reviewer of this book.

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Robert Winch

Robert Winch

Robert Winch is currently a senior software engineer at VMware and is the project lead of the Spring Security framework. In the past, he has worked as a software architect at Cerner, the largest provider of electronic medical systems in the US, securing healthcare applications. Throughout his career, he has developed hands-on experience integrating Spring Security with an array of security standards (that is, LDAP, SAML, CAS, OAuth, and so on). Before he was employed at Cerner, he worked as an independent web contractor in proteomics research at Loyola University Chicago and on the Globus Toolkit at Argonne National Laboratory.

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