This course provides learners with the essential skills to secure APIs against evolving cyber threats. You will master real-world techniques for discovering vulnerabilities, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs to identify weaknesses and implement effective security measures. API security is critical in today’s digital world, where APIs are core components of modern applications.
Pentesting APIs
Pentesting APIs
Instructor: Packt - Course Instructors
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Intermediate level
Recommended experience
3 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Understand the role of APIs in modern applications and their security challenges
Set up a penetration testing environment for API security testing
Identify and exploit common API vulnerabilities through practical techniques
Skills you'll gain
- Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Security Engineering
- Penetration Testing
- Threat Modeling
- Cybersecurity
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Brute-force attacks
- Security Testing
- Exploitation techniques
- Application Security
- Personally Identifiable Information
- Data Security
- Authorization (Computing)
- Authentications
- Business Logic
- Secure Coding
- API Testing
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Assessments
10 assignments
Taught in English
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