In this section, we discussed about the below topics on a high level.

  1. Agenda of this course

  2. What is security and why it is important for any web application

  3. Creating a simple spring boot project with security enabled inside it

  4. Testing the simple application that we created using browser and postman by using default and configured credentials

  5. Understanding on how multiple requests will get processed even with out credentials once the user is authenticated.

  6. Internal architecture of Spring Security. Don't worry if you have not understand this. We will discuss in detail about each component involved in the coming sections :)

The project source code that we developed and discussed is attached to this lecture and can be downloaded for your reference.