Spring Security in Action

Pdf Book Name: Spring Security in Action
Author: Laurentiu Spilca
Publisher: Manning Publications
ISBN-10, 13: 9781617297731,1617297739
Year: 2020
Pages: 560 / 562 Pages
Language: English
File size: 14 MB
File format: PDF,EPUB

Spring Security in Action Pdf Book Description:

Security used to be one of those system features that most people felt they could safely ignore. Unless you were working for the CIA, the military, perhaps law enforcement, or of course Google, you needed it, but it wasn’t top of your list of concerns. After all, most of the people who used your system probably came from your organization. And in any case, why would someone want to attack your system rather than a more interesting one? How times have changed! As the list of damaging, expensive, and simply embarrassing security failures grows; as more and more personal data gets released after data breaches; and as more and more companies suffer ransomware attacks, it has become obvious that security is now everyone’s problem. I have spent a number of years trying to bridge the historical gap between the communities of software development and software security, so I was overjoyed to find that my colleague Laurenţiu Spilcă was planning to write a book on Spring Security.

The reason I was so pleased is that, as my colleague at Endava, I know that Laurenţiu is a highly competent software engineer, a great engineering leader, and a Spring Security expert. But more than that, he can really communicate complex topics effectively, as his educational work in the Java community and beyond plainly illustrates. In this book, Laurenţiu summarizes some of the key foundations of software security, particularly as it applies to Java web applications, and then shows you how to use Spring Security to meet many of the security threats that your application is likely to meet. You are in good hands. Laurenţiu’s approach is practical, but he always ensures that you understand the concepts as well as the syntax, so once you’ve read this book, you’ll know how to confidently and correctly apply the information in it to your applications. Using Spring Security won’t address every security concern in your application, but following the advice in this book will improve the security of your application immensely. In summary, this book is timely, practical, and well written. I certainly plan to have a copy on my bookshelf. I suggest that all Java developers who care about the security of their applications do the same.