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# Introduction
The ColdBox `cbsecurity` module is a collection of modules to help secure your applications.
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
* 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 manage**r ( `cbauth` )
## Module composition
## 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](https://github.com/elpete/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](http://semver.org/) guidelines as much as possible. Releases will be numbered with the following format:
```
..
```
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](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
## Important Links
* Code:
* Issues:
## Professional Open Source
The ColdBox Security Module is a professional open source software backed by [Ortus Solutions, Corp](http://www.ortussolutions.com/services) offering services like:
* Custom Development
* Professional Support & Mentoring
* Training
* Server Tuning
* Security Hardening
* Code Reviews
* [Much More](http://www.ortussolutions.com/services)
### Discussion & Help
The Box products and modules community for discussion and help can be found here:
[https://community.ortussolutions.com/c/box-modules/cbsecurity/](https://community.ortussolutions.com/c/box-modules/cbsecurity/26)
### 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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