Building a REST API with Spring Boot
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Authentication and authorization are the two most important pillars of software security. In modern web applications these two concerns are under constant attack through innumerable security exploits including Cross-Site Request Forgery, Cross-Site Scripting, and weak Cross-Origin Resource Sharing enforcement.
Luckily for us, Spring Security is the Spring community's most powerful security tooling for managing a modern Spring Boot application's security concerns. Plus, it's extremely easily to incorporate and configure.
Next, let's protect our growing Family Cash Card API using Spring Security.
Carlton Schuyler
Staff Solutions Architect, Software Engineer
Carlton is a veteran of product and consulting companies where he's been writing and delivering software for longer than he cares to admit.
Joe Moore
Senior Staff Engineer, Software Consultant, XP nerd
Joe is a passionate software engineer and Agile (XP!) practitioner with a mission to help others achieve amazing outcomes through software.
Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate, open-source hacker, book/video author and speaker
Josh has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, an author of 6 books, a producer of best-selling video training, an open-source contributor, a podcaster, and a YouTuber.
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- Spring Security
- Spring support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- Same Origin Policy
- Role-Based Access Control
- Cross-Origin Request Forgery
- Cross-Site Scripting