Spring Security Interview

Q- What is spring security in java?

• Spring Security is access-control framework.
• Spring Security is a framework that used to focuses on security or restriction from non-authorize user in Java applications.
• This enables a programmer to implement security restrictions to spring framework based java applications or web application through JEE components
• Its primary area of operation is to handle authentication and authorization at the web request level as well as the method level.
• It is a powerful framework to provide high level of security to java application 
• It is easy to customize authentication and authorization configuration to java application.
• It is the de-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications. 
• Spring security protect against attacks like cross site request forgery, session fixation, clickjacking etc.

HTTP Basic Authentication Architecture diagram

Security Using JWT Token

Spring security features in java

Spring 4 Framework have the following modules as mention below.

• Spring Security
• Spring Security SAML
• Spring Security OAuth
• Spring Security Kerberos
• Spring Cloud Security

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