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M. Nardone, C. ScarioniPro Spring Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0035-1_2

2. Introducing Spring Security

Massimo Nardone1   and Carlo Scarioni2
(1)
HELSINKI, Finland
(2)
Surbiton, UK
 

In this chapter, you learn what Spring Security is and how to use it to address security concerns about your application.

We describe what’s new in Spring Framework and Spring Security version 6. Using Spring Security 6 with authentication and authorization is discussed in detail.

Finally, you look at the framework’s source code, how to build it, and the different modules forming the powerful Spring Security project.

What Is Spring Security?

Spring Security is a framework ...

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