API security Operations Playbook
RCCE students will learn API security assessment, design, and protection including REST API authentication, API gateway configuration, rate limiting, input validation, OAuth token management, and API abuse detection. RCCE students will learn to identify API vulnerabilities including broken object-level authorization, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, lack of resources and rate limiting, broken function-level authorization, and mass assignment. The course covers API threat modeling, implementing API security controls, monitoring API traffic for abuse patterns, securing GraphQL endpoints, and building API security into development workflows. This operations-focused course delivers production-ready playbooks, checklists, and standard operating procedures. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn to build repeatable day-to-day operational workflows that ensure consistency and quality. Students receive templates and frameworks they can customize and deploy immediately in their security operations, reducing time to operational effectiveness.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing API security Operations Playbook
- Execute hands-on tasks for api security operations playbook
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Execute hands-on tasks for capstone: full api security assessment
- Execute hands-on tasks for api landscape
- Execute hands-on tasks for security imperatives — covering APIs power 83% of web, Direct access to backend.
- Execute hands-on tasks for rest, graphql, grpc, soap — covering Direct access to backend.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including Resource-oriented URLs, and Single endpoint, flexible queries.
- Execute hands-on tasks for graphql apis — covering Resource-oriented URLs.
- Execute hands-on tasks for webhook / event apis — covering Server-push notification model.
- Execute hands-on tasks for never send credentials in url query parameters
- Execute hands-on tasks for token revocation operations — covering Access tokens: 15-minute maximum lifetime.
| Module 01 | API Security Operations Playbook |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 04 | Capstone: full API security assessment |
| Module 05 | API Landscape |
| Module 06 | Security Imperatives |
| Module 07 | REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP |
| Module 08 | API Architecture Patterns |
| Module 09 | GraphQL APIs |
| Module 10 | Webhook / Event APIs |
| Module 11 | Never send credentials in URL query parameters |
| Module 12 | Token Revocation Operations |
| Module 13 | API Gateway Security Architecture |
| Module 14 | Rate Limiting |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice api security operations playbook by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for api security operations playbook
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for capstone: full api security assessment
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for api landscape
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for API security Operations Playbook, verifiable through the Rocheston certification portal.
- Full access to all course materials and slide decks
- Hands-on lab access on Rocheston Rose X OS environment
- Access to Rocheston CyberNotes
- Access to Rocheston Zelfire — EDR/XDR SIEM platform
- Access to Rocheston Raven — online cyber range exercise platform
- Access to Rocheston Vulnerability Vines AI