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Category: spring security

  • How to implement authorization using JWT/OAuth2 in Spring Boot?

    There are two main aspects in Security: Authentication deals with whether the user who tries to access an application is a legitimate user. Authorization deals with whether the user has rights to read/modify a particular resource in the application. In this post let us look into authorization in Spring Boot. Let us consider an application…

  • How to protect REST API using Basic Authentication?

    How to protect REST API using Basic Authentication?

    REST APIs are one of the primary means of communication between different apps in modern web applications. Anyone can send a request to a public REST API and get a response. This poses security risk. We need only legitimate users to hit our REST APIs and get the information they need. We can do this…