You're reading from Spring Security Effectively secure your web apps, RESTful services, cloud apps, and microservice architectures

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835460504

Length 596 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Web Security

Author (1):

Badr Nasslahsen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Application Security FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Anatomy of an Unsafe Application

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Spring Security

4. Chapter 3: Custom Authentication

5. Part 2: Authentication Techniques

6. Chapter 4: JDBC-based Authentication

7. Chapter 5: Authentication with Spring Data

8. Chapter 6: LDAP Directory Services

9. Chapter 7: Remember-me Services

10. Chapter 8: Client Certificate Authentication with TLS

11. Part 3: Exploring OAuth 2 and SAML 2

12. Chapter 9: Opening up to OAuth 2

13. Chapter 10: SAML 2 Support

14. Part 4: Enhancing Authorization Mechanisms

15. Chapter 11: Fine-Grained Access Control

16. Chapter 12: Access Control Lists

17. Chapter 13: Custom Authorization

18. Part 5: Advanced Security Features and Deployment Optimization

19. Chapter 14: Session Management

20. Chapter 15: Additional Spring Security Features

21. Chapter 16: Migration to Spring Security 6

22. Chapter 17: Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens

23. Chapter 18: Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service

24. Chapter 19: Build GraalVM Native Images

25. Index

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Appendix – Additional Reference Material

Integrating with Microsoft Active Directory via LDAP

One of the convenient features of Microsoft AD is not only its seamless integration with Microsoft Windows-based network architectures, but also that it can be configured to expose the contents of AD using the LDAP protocol. If you are working in a company that is heavily leveraging Microsoft Windows, it is probable that any LDAP integration you do will be against your AD instance.

Depending on your configuration of Microsoft AD (and the directory administrator’s willingness to configure it to support Spring Security LDAP), you may have a difficult time, not with the authentication and binding process, but with the mapping of AD information to the user’s GrantedAuthority objects within the Spring Security system.

The sample AD LDAP tree for JBCP calendar corporate within our LDAP browser looks like the following screenshot: