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Spring Security

Spring Security: Secure your web applications, RESTful services, and microservice architectures , Third Edition

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Spring Security

Getting Started with Spring Security

In this chapter, we'll apply a minimal Spring Security configuration to start addressing our first finding—inadvertent privilege escalation due to a lack of 
URL protection, and general authentication from the security audit discussed in Chapter 1, Anatomy of an Unsafe Application. We will then build on the basic configuration to provide a customized experience for our users. This chapter is intended to get you up and running with Spring Security and to provide a foundation for any other security-related tasks you will need to perform.

During the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Implementing a basic level of security on the JBCP calendar application, using the automatic configuration option in Spring Security
  • Learning how to customize both the login and logout experience
  • Configuring Spring Security...

Hello Spring Security

Although Spring Security can be extremely difficult to configure, the creators of the product have been thoughtful and have provided us with a very simple mechanism to enable much of the software's functionality with a strong baseline. From this baseline, additional configuration will allow for a fine level of detailed control over the security behavior of the application.

We'll start with our unsecured calendar application from Chapter 1, Anatomy of an Unsafe Application, and turn it into a site that's secured with a rudimentary username and password authentication. This authentication serves merely to illustrate the steps involved in enabling Spring Security for our web application; you'll see that there are some obvious flaws in this approach that will lead us to make further configuration refinements.

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A little bit of polish

Stop at this point and think about what we've just built. You may have noticed some obvious issues that will require some additional work and knowledge of the Spring Security product before our application is production-ready. Try to make a list of the changes that you think are required before this security implementation is ready to roll out on the public-facing website.

Applying the Hello World Spring Security implementation was blindingly fast and has provided us with a login page, username, and password-based authentication, as well as the automatic interception of URLs in our calendar application. However, there are gaps between what the automatic configuration setup provides and what our end goal is, which are listed as follows:

  • While the login page is helpful, it's completely generic and doesn't look like the rest of our JBCP calendar...

Summary

In this chapter, we have applied a very basic Spring Security configuration, explained how to customize the user's login and logout experience, and demonstrated how to display basic information, such as a username, in our web application.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how authentication in Spring Security works and how we can customize it to our needs.

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Key benefits

  • Architect solutions that leverage the power of Spring Security while being loosely coupled
  • Implement existing user stores, user sign up, authentication, and supporting AJAX requests
  • Integrate with popular Cloud services such as Zookeeper, Eureka, and Consul, along with advanced techniques, including OAuth, JSON Web Token's (JWS), Hashing, and encryption algorithms

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended for Java Web and/or RESTful webservice developers and assumes a basic understanding of creating Java 8, Java Web and/or RESTful webservice applications, XML, and the Spring Framework. You are not expected to have any previous experience with Spring Security.

What you will learn

  • Understand common security vulnerabilities and how to resolve them
  • Perform initial penetration testing to uncover common security vulnerabilities
  • Utilize existing corporate infrastructure such as LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos, OpenID, and OAuth
  • Integrate with popular frameworks such as Spring, Spring-Boot, Spring-Data, jQuery, and AngularJS
  • Deep understanding of the security challenges with RESTful webservices and microservice architectures
  • Integrate Spring with other security infrastructure components like LDAP, Apache Directory server and SAML

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Table of Contents

18 Chapters
Anatomy of an Unsafe Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Spring Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Custom Authentication Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
JDBC-Based Authentication Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Authentication with Spring Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
LDAP Directory Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Remember-Me Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Client Certificate Authentication with TLS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Opening up to OAuth 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Fine-Grained Access Control Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Access Control Lists Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Custom Authorization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Session Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Additional Spring Security Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Migration to Spring Security 4.2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Additional Reference Material Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Jeovany Tenorio Hernandez Mar 02, 2020
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Excelente libro, supero todas mis expectativas
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This book has a nice introduction. The code can be compiled with maven after some small modifications and googling. The knowledge can be transformed to the Spring Security 5.*
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Es un buen libro, llega al fondo de los asuntos de Spring Security y ese puede ser su punto débil. Terminas de leerlo, analizándolo un poco y notas que se te escapa una visión global de Security, y que después de todo, en la práctica, no hacía falta llegar tan al detalle de las configuraciones posibles y de las tripas de security y lo que realmente vale no queda del todo claro. Pero es una obra de calidad
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A very good introduction to security using Spring, covers a variety of methods and models. I would highly recommend it to anyone using Spring.
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