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Knowing How to Use WebSecurityConfig in Spring Boot
These days, harmful assaults are a persistent threat to web applications. Spring Security is a robust security framework that offers extensive support for protecting your Spring Boot applications in order to allay these worries. Depending on the version of Spring Security, the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter (or comparable configurations) is the core component that allows you to customise application security.
To properly secure your application, this article explains how to set up WebSecurityConfig in a Spring Boot application.
1. What is WebSecurityConfig?
WebSecurityConfig is a custom configuration class that extends Spring Security’s security configurations. It allows you to:
• Define authentication mechanisms.
• Specify URL patterns requiring security.
• Configure session management.
- Implement cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policies.
2. Getting Started with Spring Security
To use Spring Security in your project, add the following dependency in your pom.xml file:
