July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
7h 36m
English
One of the fundamental ways to secure a resource is to make sure that the caller is who they claim to be. This process of checking credentials and making sure that they are genuine is called authentication.
The following diagram shows the fundamental process Spring Security uses to address this core security requirement. The figure is generic and can be used to explain all the various authentication methods that the framework supports:

As detailed in Chapter 1, Overview of Spring 5 and Spring Security 5 (in the Working of Spring Security section), Spring Security has a series of servlet ...
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