In every application, Authentication is the first layer of protection. Thus, Authentication is a major part of Application Security and in this post we will dive deep into the architecture used by **Spring Security **for Authentication.

What is Authentication?_ Authentication is proving who you are. For example, your Identity Card is used to “authenticate” you in your School/College/Office campus._

Spring Security provides excellent support for Authentication by default. Kind of in a plug-in-and-play fashion. A simple Authentication workflow is really easy to setup. However, if you wanna go for a complete custom implementation then you need to understand the authentication flow and comprehend what happens behind the scenes when an authentication request is received by the server.

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