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Spring Security - Third Edition

By : Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH
Book Image

Spring Security - Third Edition

By: Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH

Overview of this book

Knowing that experienced hackers are itching to test your skills makes security one of the most difficult and high-pressured concerns of creating an application. The complexity of properly securing an application is compounded when you must also integrate this factor with existing code, new technologies, and other frameworks. Use this book to easily secure your Java application with the tried and trusted Spring Security framework, a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. The book starts by integrating a variety of authentication mechanisms. It then demonstrates how to properly restrict access to your application. It also covers tips on integrating with some of the more popular web frameworks. An example of how Spring Security defends against session fixation, moves into concurrency control, and how you can utilize session management for administrative functions is also included. It concludes with advanced security scenarios for RESTful webservices and microservices, detailing the issues surrounding stateless authentication, and demonstrates a concise, step-by-step approach to solving those issues. And, by the end of the book, readers can rest assured that integrating version 4.2 of Spring Security will be a seamless endeavor from start to finish.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the CAS single sign-on portal and how it can be integrated with Spring Security, and we also covered the CAS architecture and communication paths between actors in a CAS-enabled environment. We also saw the benefits of CAS-enabled applications for application developers and system administrators. We also learned about configuring JBCP calendar to interact with a basic CAS installation. We also covered the use of CAS's single logout support.

We also saw how proxy ticket authentication works and how to leverage it to authenticate stateless services.
We also covered tasks of updating CAS to interact with LDAP, and sharing LDAP data with our CAS-enabled application. We even learned about implementing attribute exchange with the industry standard SAML protocol.

We hope this chapter was an interesting introduction to the world of single...