Application Security

API Penetration Testing

API security testing from reconnaissance and enumeration through authentication, authorization, fuzzing and exploitation.

Job-Ready Advanced Classroom / Online
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Overview

APIs are now the main attack surface for modern applications. This program covers how APIs are discovered, how authentication and authorization break, and how to test REST and GraphQL endpoints systematically against the OWASP API Security Top 10.

Course Curriculum

Tools & Technologies

Burp SuitePostmanffufOWASP ZAPjwt_tool

What You Will Learn

  • Discover and map undocumented API endpoints
  • Test token, session and key-based authentication
  • Identify broken object and function level authorization
  • Fuzz parameters to surface injection and logic flaws

Hands-On Labs

  • API discovery and documentation lab
  • JWT tampering and token abuse lab
  • BOLA / IDOR exploitation lab
  • Rate limiting and mass assignment lab

Projects

  • End-to-end assessment of a vulnerable REST API
  • API penetration test report with remediation advice

Who Should Join

  • Web application testers moving into API security
  • Backend developers who want to secure their endpoints
  • Security analysts working with modern applications

Prerequisites

  • Basic web security knowledge
  • Understanding of HTTP and JSON

Career Paths

  • Application Security Analyst
  • API Security Engineer
  • Penetration Tester

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