What is the reason to disable csrf in spring boot web application?

Question

There are many tutorials where is shown how to disable csrf,

csrf().disable()

(and other possibilities like .properties, .y

Answer 1

Yes it is safe to disable if you have a diffeernt authentication mechanism which cannot be cloaked. For interal enterprise applications, not much of a concerrn. We had to disable it because it was interfering with our existing authentication mechanism.