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Published inNov 2017

Reading LevelIntermediate

PublisherPackt

ISBN-139781787129511

Edition3rd Edition

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Java

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Spring

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Cybersecurity

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Mick Knutson

Peter Mularien

ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH

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Integrating with Microsoft Active Directory via LDAP

One of the convenient features of Microsoft AD is not only its seamless integration with Microsoft Windows-based network architectures, but also that it can be configured to expose the contents of AD using the LDAP protocol. If you are working in a company that is heavily leveraging Microsoft Windows, it is probable that any LDAP integration you do will be against your AD instance.

Depending on your configuration of Microsoft AD (and the directory administrator's willingness to configure it to support Spring Security LDAP), you may have a difficult time, not with the authentication and binding process, but with the mapping of AD information to the user's GrantedAuthority objects within the Spring Security system.

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Mick Knutson

With nearly two decades of experience working in the IT industry in various roles as Enterprise technology consultant, Java Architect, project leader, Engineer, Designer and Developer, Mr. Knutson has gained a wide variety of experience in disciplines including JavaEE, Web Services, Mobile Computing and Enterprise Integration Solutions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Knutson has enjoyed long lasting partnerships with many of the most recognizable names in the Health Care, Financial, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Utilities, Product Distribution, Industrial and Electronics industries employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies including the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, SCRUM, and Extreme Programming (XP). Mr. Knutson has also undertaken speaking engagements, training seminars, white paper and book publishing engagements world-wide. As an active Blogger and tweeter, Mr. Knutson has also been inducted in the prestigious DZone.com Most Valuable Blogger (MVB) group and can be followed at http://www.dzone.com/page/mvbs, http://www.dzone.com/users/mickknutson and twitter at http://twitter.com/mickknutson.
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Peter Mularien

Peter Mularien is an experienced software architect and engineer, and the author of the book Spring Security 3, Packt Publishing. Peter currently works for a large financial services company and has over 12 years consulting and product experience in Java, Spring, Oracle, and many other enterprise technologies. He is also the reviewer of this book.
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ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH

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