What is the role of the Spring Security module in ensuring the security of your application?

Spring Security is a module in the Spring ecosystem responsible for ensuring application security. Its main role is user authentication and authorization, that is, verifying their identity and managing access to resources.

With Spring Security, you can:

• Configure various authentication methods (e.g., login form, OAuth2, JWT).
• Restrict access to certain URLs or methods based on user roles.
• Protect the application from common attacks such as CSRF, session hijacking, etc.

This allows creating secure applications with a flexible and extensible access control system without having to write all security logic from scratch.