Securing APIs with Spring Security & JWT
A JWT moves the session into the token itself — which buys you scale and hands you a new set of ways to get it wrong.
Feb 2, 20244 min read25

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A JWT moves the session into the token itself — which buys you scale and hands you a new set of ways to get it wrong.

Once the system knows who you are, RBAC decides what that gets you — and roles are just strings with a convention.

Under the hood it's five small collaborators, each doing one job — and none of them quite where beginners expect.
Add one dependency and everything's locked. The real setup is deciding what to unlock, and why.
Security you bolt on at the end is the security you get wrong. Spring Security's whole pitch is treating it as infrastructure instead.
