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Spring Security

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- [Instructor] Of all the projects in Spring, outside of the core framework itself, Spring Security, in my opinion, is the hardest to learn, yet it's one of the most common that you will encounter in your day-to-day activities. So what is Spring Security other than a simple security framework, you may ask? It is specifically a filter-based authentication and authorization framework. This can be things like Basic Auth, OAuth, SAML, or other authentication and authorization frameworks. Spring Security also is a web-based exploit prevention and it's preventing things like CSRF, or Cross-Site Request Forgery, that is built into the Spring Security package. Part of this exploit prevention includes things like encrypted secure headers and TLS support. Spring Security also has a robust library of quote unquote "plugins" for utilizing various technologies like LDAP and other mechanisms. Now, I have an entire course dedicated to…

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