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Spring Security - Third Edition

By : Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH
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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)

Access Control Lists

In this chapter, we will address the complex topic of access control lists (ACL), which can provide a rich model of domain object instance-level authorization. Spring Security ships with a robust, but complicated, access control list module that can serve the needs of small to medium-sized implementations reasonably well.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the conceptual model of ACL
  • Reviewing the terminology and application of ACL concepts in the Spring Security ACL module
  • Building and reviewing the database schema required to support Spring ACL
  • Configuring JBCP calendar to use ACL secured business methods via annotations and Spring beans
  • Performing advanced configuration, including customized ACL permissions, ACL-enabled JSP tag checks and method security, mutable ACLs, and smart caching
  • Examining architectural considerations...