Spring Security protects your application from many common security threats right out of the box, in fact the increased adoption of such frameworks has resulted in significant declines in occurrences of many of these threats. In this course, Spring Framework 5: Securing Spring Applications against Common Security Threats, you’ll learn about these threats and how Spring Security protects your application against them. First, you will learn how to configure Spring Security with Spring Boot to get security up and running from the very get-go of your project, so that it can evolve alongside your architecture. Next, you’ll discover some of the various authentication strategies supported by Spring Security, their pros and cons, and how to implement them for single-page and multi-page applications. Finally, you’ll learn how to deal with secret and exception management in your application. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Spring Security needed to effectively secure your application against common security threats.
Author Name: Wojciech Lesniak
Author Description:
Wojciech is a Technical Lead and Scrum Master. He has over 15 years’ experience in software development working in a variety of industries from financial services and online gaming. He has extensive experience with anything Java, Spring framework, Microservices and has a passion for developing secure and scalable applications.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• What Is Spring Security?
  7mins
• Configuring Spring Security with Spring Boot
  11mins
• Configuring Authentication in Your Application
  16mins
• How Spring Security Protects You against Common Security Threats
  17mins
• Correctly Configuring HTTPS
  14mins
• Adding Authentication to Single-page Web Applications
  12mins
• Managing Secrets
  6mins
• Handling Exceptions
  11mins