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Felipe Gutierrez, Pro Spring Boot, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1431-2_9

9. Security with Spring Boot

Felipe Gutierrez

(1)Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

This chapter shows you how to use security in your Spring Boot applications in order to secure your web application. You learn everything from using basic security to using OAuth. Security has become a primary and important factor for desktop, web, and mobile applications in the last decade. But security is a little hard to implement because you need to think about everything—cross-site scripting, authorization, and authentication, secure sessions, identification, encryption, and lot more. There is still a lot to do just to implement simple security in your applications.

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