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API SECURITY COURSE IN HYDERABAD
Learn API Security, API Testing, OWASP API Top 10, Authentication, Authorization and API Pentesting with Practical Training
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Web Application Security Course in Hyderabad
Modern applications depend on APIs to connect websites, mobile apps, cloud services, payment systems and business applications. If an API is not properly secured, attackers may misuse authentication, access sensitive data, change information or abuse application functions.
The API Security Course in Hyderabad at Skill Rise IT Academy is designed to help learners understand how APIs work, how API security issues occur, and how to test APIs in authorized and controlled environments.
You will learn API security fundamentals, REST APIs, HTTP methods, authentication, authorization, JWT, access control, input validation, rate limiting, API security testing, OWASP API Security risks, Postman, Burp Suite and API security reporting.
The course is suitable for students, freshers, software testers, developers, cybersecurity learners, penetration testers and working IT professionals who want to build practical API security skills.
What Is API Security?
API Security is the process of protecting Application Programming Interfaces from unauthorized access, misuse, data exposure and other security risks.
APIs often handle important information such as:
- User accounts
- Login details
- Customer data
- Payment information
- Orders
- Business data
- Application services
What Is API Security Testing?
API Security Testing is the process of checking an API for security weaknesses.
Security testing can help identify problems related to:
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Access control
- Input validation
- Session handling
- JWT security
- Rate limiting
- Sensitive data exposure
- API configuration
- Business logic
- Error handling
Why Learn API Security?
APIs are now an important part of web, mobile and cloud applications.
Learning API security can help you understand:
- How APIs communicate
- How API authentication works
- How authorization controls access
- How security vulnerabilities occur
- How to test API requests and responses
- How to identify access control problems
- How to analyze API security risks
- How to document security findings
- How developers can secure APIs
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
API Security Course Curriculum
API Security Fundamentals
- What is an API?
- What is API security?
- API security vs API testing
- Types of APIs
- REST APIs
- SOAP APIs
- GraphQL basics
- API security risks
- Common API attack surfaces
How APIs Work
- Client and server
- API requests
- API responses
- Endpoints
- Resources
- Parameters
- Headers
- Request body
- Response body
HTTP and HTTPS
- HTTP fundamentals
- HTTPS
- HTTP requests
- HTTP responses
- HTTP headers
- HTTP methods
- HTTP status codes
- TLS basics
REST API Security
- REST architecture
- REST endpoints
- GET
- POST
- PUT
- PATCH
- DELETE
- REST API security considerations
- REST API attack surface
JSON and XML Security
- JSON structure
- XML structure
- Request validation
- Response validation
- Data handling
- Common security concerns
Authentication
- What is authentication?
- Username and password
- Token-based authentication
- API keys
- Session-based authentication
- OAuth basics
- Authentication testing
- Common authentication weaknesses
Authorization
- What is authorization?
- Authentication vs authorization
- Role-based access
- Permission-based access
- Resource access
- Authorization testing
- Broken authorization scenarios
Access Control Testing
- Access control fundamentals
- Horizontal access control
- Vertical access control
- Object-level access
- Function-level access
- IDOR concepts
- BOLA concepts
- BFLA concepts
JWT Security
- What is JWT?
- JWT structure
- Header
- Payload
- Signature
- JWT authentication
- JWT validation
- JWT security risks
- Secure JWT practices
OWASP API Security
- Broken Object Level Authorization
- Broken Authentication
- Broken Object Property Level Authorization
- Unrestricted Resource Consumption
- Broken Function Level Authorization
- Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows
- Server Side Request Forgery
- Security Misconfiguration
- Improper Inventory Management
- Unsafe Consumption of APIs
API Input Validation
- Input validation
- Parameter validation
- Data type validation
- Request validation
- Malformed requests
- Injection risks
- Error handling
API Rate Limiting
- What is rate limiting?
- Why rate limiting is important
- Brute-force protection
- Resource abuse
- API abuse
- Rate-limit testing
- Secure rate-limit practices
API Security Testing with Postman
- Postman fundamentals
- Creating API requests
- Headers
- Parameters
- Authentication
- Collections
- Environments
- Variables
- Testing API responses
- API security test cases
API Security Testing with Burp Suite
- Burp Suite fundamentals
- Proxy
- HTTP history
- Repeater
- Request modification
- Response analysis
- Authentication testing
- Authorization testing
- API request analysis
API Security Testing
- API reconnaissance
- Endpoint discovery
- Request analysis
- Authentication testing
- Authorization testing
- Input validation testing
- Security header checks
- Error handling checks
- Business logic testing
API Business Logic Security
- Understanding application workflows
- Business rules
- Workflow manipulation
- Unauthorized actions
- Excessive functionality
- Sensitive business operations
- Secure business logic
API Security Misconfiguration
- Security configuration
- Unnecessary endpoints
- Debug information
- Error messages
- HTTP security headers
- CORS basics
- API documentation exposure
- Secure configuration
Sensitive Data Exposure
- Sensitive information
- API responses
- Data leakage
- Excessive data exposure
- Secure response design
- Data masking
- Error response security
API Inventory and Documentation Security
- API discovery
- API documentation
- Swagger/OpenAPI basics
- Old API versions
- Unused endpoints
- Shadow APIs
- API inventory management
API Security Automation
- Security testing concepts
- Automated API checks
- Postman collections
- Newman basics
- Repeated security checks
- Test automation basics
API Security Reporting
- Security findings
- Vulnerability description
- Risk rating
- Business impact
- Evidence
- Reproduction steps
- Remediation
- Retesting
API Security Projects
- API security assessment
- Authentication testing project
- Authorization testing project
- OWASP API Security assessment
- API security reporting project
Skills You Can Develop
By completing the training, learners can work toward developing skills in:
- API fundamentals
- REST API
- HTTP/HTTPS
- API authentication
- API authorization
- Access control
- JWT
- OWASP API Security
- API security testing
- Postman
- Burp Suite
- API business logic
- Rate limiting
- API security automation
- Security reporting
- Vulnerability assessment
API Security vs Web Application Security
API security focuses specifically on interfaces used by applications to communicate.
Web application security covers a wider area, including:
- Web applications
- Browser-side security
- Server-side security
- Authentication
- Sessions
- APIs
- Business logic
- Web vulnerabilities
Career Opportunities
API security knowledge can support career paths such as:
- API Security Tester
- Application Security Tester
- Cybersecurity Analyst
- Security Tester
- VAPT Analyst
- Web Application Security Tester
- Penetration Testing Trainee
- Application Security Analyst
- API Testing Engineer
- Security QA Engineer
API Security Learning Path
Cybersecurity Fundamentals
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Networking & HTTP
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API Fundamentals
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REST APIs
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API Requests & Responses
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Authentication
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Authorization
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Access Control
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JWT
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OWASP API Security Top 10
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API Security Testing
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Postman
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Burp Suite
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API Business Logic Security
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Rate Limiting
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API Security Automation
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Security Reporting
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Real-Time API Security Projects
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Interview Preparation
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Career Support
Frequently Asked Questions
We know choosing the right training institute is an important decision. Here are answers to some of the most common questions students ask before joining Skill Rise IT Academy.
What is an API Security Course?
It is a course that teaches how APIs work, how API security controls work and how to identify security weaknesses in authorized testing environments.
What is API security?
API security protects APIs from unauthorized access, misuse, data exposure and other security risks.
Is API security different from API testing?
Yes. API testing mainly checks functionality and behavior, while API security testing focuses on security weaknesses.
Can freshers learn API security?
Yes. Beginners can start with networking, HTTP and API fundamentals before moving to security testing.
Do I need coding knowledge?
Basic programming knowledge can help, but you can begin with API fundamentals, HTTP, Postman and security concepts.
What is REST API security?
REST API security involves protecting REST endpoints, requests, responses, authentication, authorization and data.
What is OWASP API Security Top 10?
It is a list of major API security risks published by OWASP and commonly used as a reference for API security awareness and testing.
What is JWT?
JWT, or JSON Web Token, is a token format commonly used to transfer claims between parties and support authentication or authorization workflows.
What is API authentication?
Authentication checks who or what is making an API request.
What is API authorization?
Authorization determines what an authenticated user or application is allowed to access or perform.
Is Postman useful for API security testing?
Yes. Postman can be used to create, modify and analyze API requests and responses during authorized testing.
Is Burp Suite useful for API security?
Yes. Burp Suite can help security testers intercept, inspect and modify HTTP requests and responses in controlled testing environments.
What is API penetration testing?
API penetration testing is an authorized security assessment used to identify and validate security weaknesses in APIs.
What is BOLA?
BOLA stands for Broken Object Level Authorization. It occurs when an API does not properly enforce access to specific objects or resources.
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