June 2025
Intermediate
2h 14m
English
on-demand course
API Security Fundamentals: Protect Your Applications with the OWASP Top 10
with Sunny Wear
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
APIs are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks, and many applications remain vulnerable due to insufficient security awareness. The OWASP API Security Top 10 provides a valuable framework to identify and address the most common and critical risks to API security. In this course, Dr. Sunny Wear will guide you through real-world API attacks and teach you actionable methods for securing your APIs, ensuring that you can mitigate risks before they become threats.
What you’ll learn and how to apply it
By the end of this course, learners will be able to
- Identify and visualize common attack vectors targeting APIs.
- Understand and identify the potential business and technical impacts of API security breaches.
- Apply OWASP’s API security best practices to harden APIs against common attack vectors.
This course is for you because
- You are a security manager or penetration tester responsible for hardening APIs.
- You are a developer who works on web applications with API callouts.
- You want to become more proficient at identifying and mitigating API vulnerabilities.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of the HTTP Protocol, web and application architecture, and how API calls are made
Course Materials
- Download Burp Suite Community Edition
- Download and install Burp Extension: JWT Editor
- Register for Portswigger Account to access labs
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