Pro Spring Boot 3: An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices

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9. Spring Boot Security

Felipe Gutierrez¹  

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In this chapter we are going to review how Spring Security works and how you can create secure apps with Spring Boot. Of course, Spring Boot helps to auto-configure all the necessary infrastructure that you need when implementing security for your applications.

Spring Security

The Spring Security framework provides authentication, authorization, and ways to prevent common attacks such cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-origin resource sharing ...