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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)

Integrating with Microsoft Active Directory via LDAP

One of the convenient features of Microsoft AD is not only its seamless integration with Microsoft Windows-based network architectures, but also that it can be configured to expose the contents of AD using the LDAP protocol. If you are working in a company that is heavily leveraging Microsoft Windows, it is probable that any LDAP integration you do will be against your AD instance.

Depending on your configuration of Microsoft AD (and the directory administrator's willingness to configure it to support Spring Security LDAP), you may have a difficult time, not with the authentication and binding process, but with the mapping of AD information to the user's GrantedAuthority objects within the Spring Security system.

The sample AD LDAP tree for JBCP calendar corporate within our LDAP browser looks similar to the following...