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

LDAP Directory Services

In this chapter, we will review the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and learn how it can be integrated into a Spring Security-enabled application to provide authentication, authorization, and user information.

During the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Learning some of the basic concepts related to the LDAP protocol and server implementations
Configuring a self-contained LDAP server within Spring Security
Enabling LDAP authentication and authorization
Understanding the model behind LDAP search and user matching
Retrieving additional user details from standard LDAP structures
Differentiating between LDAP authentication methods and evaluating the pros and cons of each type
Explicitly configuring Spring Security LDAP using Spring bean declarations
Connecting to external LDAP directories
Exploring the built-in support for Microsoft AD
We will also explore how to customize Spring...