Pivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Exam: A Study Guide Using Spring Framework 5

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I. CosminaPivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Examhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5136-2_7

7. Spring Security

Iuliana Cosmina¹ 

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Iasi, Sibiu, Romania

 

The web application that we built in an earlier chapter was quite simple. To make things interesting, this section introduces the security layer. This means users will be set up to access the whole application or only parts of it based on their roles. Securing web applications is necessary because they are usually accessed by multiple users in parallel, and each of them needs its own secure session to store its data. Once an application is exposed on the Internet, it is exposed to the risk of being attacked. In the century of Big Data, it is more than true ...