Securing Your Spring Boot Applications
Welcome to an important stage in your Spring Boot learning journey. In this chapter, we focus on security: a crucial aspect that will help you protect your applications against evolving digital threats. Here, you’ll learn how to implement strong security with Spring Boot 3.0, which includes techniques using Open Authorization 2.0 (OAuth2), JSON Web Token (JWT), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). We shall also go into the details of how to secure a reactive application.
You will learn how to authenticate users using OAuth2 and manage secure tokens using JWT. You will also master RBAC, whose job is to provide the right access to the right users. We even have a dedicated section just for reactive developers who want to be assured that their reactive apps are at least as secure as their standard web apps.
Why does this matter? In our digital world, security is not a feature; it’s a way of life. The concepts you are going to...
