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Enterprise Architect, and Life Thinker

Learning Spring Boot from Zero to Cloud: Part 12 – Security 101

josedacruz, March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

🚀 Welcome to our Spring Boot Course Series! 🚀
In today’s lesson, we dive into one of the most essential topics for any web application — Spring Security. 🔒

👉 In this video, you’ll learn:
✅ How to add the Spring Security dependency
✅ Understanding the auto-generated password by Spring Boot
✅ How to define your own username and password in application.properties
✅ What the JSESSIONID is and how it works during login sessions
✅ How the Authorization header works for REST API calls using Basic Auth

By the end of this lesson, you’ll know how to secure your Spring Boot application with simple configurations and understand the basic flow of authentication.

💻 Whether you’re building REST APIs or a full-stack app, this is a must-know skill for every Spring Boot developer!

👉 Subscribe and stay tuned for the next lessons in this series where we go even deeper into Spring Security, JWTs, and more!

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