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Introduction

Welcome to the ColdBox Security v3.x Series

The Best Way To Secure Your Applications
The ColdBox cbsecurity module is a collection of modules to help secure your ColdBox applications.
Security Visualizer
The major areas of concern are:
A security authentication/authorization firewall ( cbsecurity ) which can secure your application based on:
Security rules and a rule engine for validation incoming events or URL's patterns
Handler annotations
A security service for explicit authorizations ( cbsecurity ) to provide you with functional approaches to security context authorization in any layer of your application.
A JWT generator, decoder and authentication services ( jwtcfml ) 
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection ( cbcsrf )
An authentication manager ( cbauth ) which can be plug-and-play with your own or third party modules
Basic Authentication services that provide basic user credential storage and browser challenges
A graphical user interface for visualizing the firewall and operational settings we lovingly call the CBSecurity Visualizer
Industry standard response headers to protect agains xss, clickjacking, frame busting, and much more
Module composition
CBSecurity consumes several other modules and leverages cbstorages for storage.
Features
Ability to have global security rules
Ability for modules to add their own security rules and action overrides
Ability to distinguish between authentication and authorization issues
Annotation driven cascading security for handlers and actions
A functional security service that can be injected anywhere to provide you with authorizations
Security rules can exist in:
XML File
JSON File
Database
Models
The rules can be configured to use regular expressions or simple snippets
Can use ColdFusion authentication security
Can leverage any custom authentication provider
Plug any Authentication service or can leverage cbauth by default
Capability to distinguish between invalid authentication and invalid authorization and determine an outcome of the process.  
Ability to load/unload security rules from contributing modules.
Ability for each module to define it's own validator
JWT Access and Refresh Tokens Native support
Versioning
The ColdBox Security Module is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible. Releases will be numbered with the following format:
<major>.<minor>.<patch>
And constructed with the following guidelines:
Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
Bug fixes and misc changes bumps the patch
License
Apache 2 License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0​
Important Links
Code: https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbsecurity​
Issues: https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbsecurity/issues​
Professional Open Source
Ortus Solutions, Corp
The ColdBox Security Module is a professional open source software backed by Ortus Solutions, Corp offering services like:
Custom Development
Professional Support & Mentoring
Training
Server Tuning
Security Hardening
Code Reviews
​Much More​
Discussion & Help
The Box products and modules community for discussion and help can be found here:
​https://community.ortussolutions.com/c/box-modules/cbsecurity/​
HONOR GOES TO GOD ABOVE ALL
Because of His grace, this project exists. If you don't like this, then don't read it, it's not for you.
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:5

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