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Spring Security

You're reading from Spring Security Secure your web applications, RESTful services, and microservice architectures

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129511

Length 542 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (3):

Mick Knutson

Robert Winch

Mularien

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.Packtpub.com

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Preface

1. Anatomy of an Unsafe Application FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Spring Security

3. Custom Authentication

4. JDBC-Based Authentication

5. Authentication with Spring Data

6. LDAP Directory Services

7. Remember-Me Services

8. Client Certificate Authentication with TLS

9. Opening up to OAuth 2

10. Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service

11. Fine-Grained Access Control

12. Access Control Lists

13. Custom Authorization

14. Session Management

15. Additional Spring Security Features

16. Migration to Spring Security 4.2

17. Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens

18. Additional Reference Material

Getting started with the JBCP calendar sample code

Microservice security

Microservices can provide great flexibility but also introduce challenges that must be addressed.

Service communication

Monolithic applications use in‑memory communication between processes, while microservices communicate over the network. The move to network communication raises issues of not only speed but also security.

Tight coupling

Microservices use many datastores rather than a few. This creates the opportunity for implicit service contracts between microservices and services that are tightly coupled.

Technical complexity

Microservices can create additional complexity, which can create security gaps. If the team does not have the correct experience, then managing these complexities can quickly become unmanageable.

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Authors (3)

Mick Knutson

Mick Knutson

With nearly two decades of experience working in the IT industry in various roles as Enterprise technology consultant, Java Architect, project leader, Engineer, Designer and Developer, Mr. Knutson has gained a wide variety of experience in disciplines including JavaEE, Web Services, Mobile Computing and Enterprise Integration Solutions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Knutson has enjoyed long lasting partnerships with many of the most recognizable names in the Health Care, Financial, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Utilities, Product Distribution, Industrial and Electronics industries employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies including the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, SCRUM, and Extreme Programming (XP). Mr. Knutson has also undertaken speaking engagements, training seminars, white paper and book publishing engagements world-wide.

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Robert Winch

Robert Winch

Robert Winch is currently a senior software engineer at VMware and is the project lead of the Spring Security framework. In the past, he has worked as a software architect at Cerner, the largest provider of electronic medical systems in the US, securing healthcare applications. Throughout his career, he has developed hands-on experience integrating Spring Security with an array of security standards (that is, LDAP, SAML, CAS, OAuth, and so on). Before he was employed at Cerner, he worked as an independent web contractor in proteomics research at Loyola University Chicago and on the Globus Toolkit at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Mularien

Mularien

Peter Mularien is an experienced software architect and engineer, and the author of the book Spring Security 3, Packt Publishing. Peter currently works for a large financial services company and has over 12 years consulting and product experience in Java, Spring, Oracle, and many other enterprise technologies. He is also the reviewer of this book.

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