Understanding Spring Security
Spring Security is an application-level security framework widely used in Spring Boot applications. It is a flexible authentication framework that provides most of the standard security requirements for Java applications. Spring Security is popular owing to the fact that it allows developers to integrate different authorization and authentication providers on the fly with the other modules available.
As we’re using Spring Security in our application, we do not need to code security-related tasks from scratch as Spring Security has these features under the hood.
Let’s discuss the concepts of Spring Security further.
Features of Spring Security
Spring Security mainly focuses on integrating authentication and authorization into applications. To compare the two, authentication refers to validating that a user can access your application and identifying who the user is. This mainly refers to the login page itself. On the other hand...