# Spring Security Core

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-core/  
**Provider:** Spring Security — https://apis.io/providers/spring-security/  
**Base URL:** https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/api/  
**Documentation:** https://spring.io/projects/spring-security

Spring Security Core is one of 12 APIs that [Spring Security](https://apis.io/providers/spring-security/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Authentication, Authorization, Core, and Method Security. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, a GitHub repository, and release notes.

Core security features for authentication and authorization. Provides UserDetailsService, password encoding, security context management, method security, and HTTP security configuration.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/api/
- **GettingStarted** — https://spring.io/guides/gs/securing-web/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security
- **ReleaseNotes** — https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/releases
- **Maven Repository** — https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.security
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spring-security/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Spring Security APIs (11)

- [Spring Security SAML2](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-saml/)
- [Spring Security LDAP](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-ldap/)
- [Spring Security WebFlux](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-webflux/)
- [Spring Security Authorization API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-authorization-api/)
- [Spring Security Client Management API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-client-management-api/)
- [Spring Security Device API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-device-api/)
- [Spring Security Discovery API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-discovery-api/)
- [Spring Security Keys API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-keys-api/)
- [Spring Security OpenID Connect API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-openid-connect-api/)
- [Spring Security Session API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-session-api/)
- [Spring Security Token API](https://apis.io/apis/spring-security/spring-security-token-api/)

## Tags

Authentication, Authorization, Core, Method Security

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