Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is the de facto standard for securing Spring-based applications.
– Spring by Pivotal
Spring Security 5 is the new version of the framework and will be the main focus of this book. Spring Security enables you to take care of authentication and authorization of your application in all aspects. It also has top-level projects to deal specifically with a number of authentication mechanisms, such as LDAP, OAuth, and SAML. Spring Security also gives you enough mechanisms to deal with common security attacks, such as Session Fixation, Clickjacking, and Cross-Site Request Forgery. Moreover, it has very good integration with a number of Spring Framework projects, such as Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux, Spring Data, Spring Integration, and Spring Boot.