HTTP Data Integrity Validator

Spring Security aids us in enriching our application with common security features, allowing us to do so very easily and with minimal code. However, Spring Security is slowly and steadily catching up with many of the additional security features needed in modern applications. Most of these applications are deployed on the cloud and have very high rates of changes pushed to production on a day-to-day basis. HTTP Data Integrity Validator (HDIV) is a product that can be used to further enrich your application security.

What is HDIV?

HDIV was originally born as an open source project when it was developed by Roberto Velasco, Gotzon Illarramendi, and Gorka Vicente to confront security issues detected in production environments. The first stable Version 1.0 was released in 2008, in the form of a security library to be integrated within web applications. HDIV was officially integrated with Spring MVC, the most-used Java solution for web application development in 2011...