Summary
We took a brief journey through GeoServer security. From the plain installation, which ships with a very low security level, we learned how to create users and give them grants to access data and perform tasks on GeoServer.
We have just covered a small subset of the wide range of topics that GeoServer has to offer.
GeoServer can integrate with Enterprise security. You can have users and roles defined in an external LDAP repository.
In the next chapter we will focus on performance, which is a big challenge when you eventually deploy your site in production. Users might wait in anticipation for your maps, but if it takes too long to download them, they will soon abandon your site.
