What you'll learn

Securing your application with OAuth2, OIDC and JWT doesn't have to be difficult. In this course, Effective OAuth2 with Spring Security 5 and Spring Boot, you will gain the ability to effectively leverage the framework to quickly and effectively do the heavy lifting for you. First, you will learn the essentials of OAuth2, OpenID Connect and JSON Web Token standards so you can correctly leverage Spring Security to add social sing-in to you existing application. Next, you will discover options on how to implement an Authorization Server so that you can completely decouple user authentication from you application code. Finally, you will explore more advanced topics on how to tailor the framework to your unique security requirements and the various patterns you can leverage to secure distributed systems such as microservices. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of OAuth2 support in Spring Security needed to leverage OAuth2, OIDC and JWT in modern distributed applications.