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Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

By : Tomcy John
Book Image

Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

By: Tomcy John

Overview of this book

Spring Security enables developers to seamlessly integrate authorization, authentication, and a range of security features for complex enterprise applications. This book provides a hands-on approach to developing reactive applications using Spring and will help you get up and running in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, the book begins by explaining the essential concepts of reactive programming, Spring Framework, and Spring Security. You’ll then learn about a variety of authentication mechanisms and how to integrate them easily with a Spring MVC application. You’ll also understand how to achieve authorization in a Spring WebFlux application using Spring Security. Furthermore, the book will take you through the configuration required to implement OAuth2 for securing REST APIs, and guide you in integrating security in microservices and serverless applications. Finally, you’ll be able to augment add-ons that will enhance any Spring Security module. By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped to integrate Spring Security into your Java enterprise applications proficiently.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

CSP


Content Security Policy (CSP) (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP) is an added layer of security that helps to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks, including Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection attacks. These attacks are used for everything from data theft to site defacement or distribution of malware.

A proper CSP setup in your application can handle content injection vulnerabilities, and is a great way to reduce XSS. XSS stands at number two in the OWASP Top 10.

A CSP is not a solution to handling all injection vulnerabilities, but can be used as one of the tools to reduce injection attacks to a reasonable level.

CSP is a declarative policy, implemented using HTTP headers. It can be run in an application in two modes:

  • Production mode (declared as CSP)
  • Report-only mode (used for testing and are declared as Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only)

CSP contains a set of security policy directives responsible for putting appropriate restrictions on a web resource...