RCCE Course
Course #401

API testing Deep Dive

📊 Level: Advanced
⏱️ Duration: 2 Days
🏷️ Track: Offensive Security
📋 Prerequisites: Foundations
🖥️ Mode: Online Instructor-Led
📝 Course Description

RCCE students will learn API security testing methodologies including REST API testing, authentication testing, authorization testing, input validation testing, business logic testing, and API fuzzing. RCCE students will learn to plan and execute API security assessments, test API authentication mechanisms for weaknesses, verify authorization controls at the object and function level, fuzz API endpoints to discover input validation vulnerabilities, test business logic flows for manipulation opportunities, use API testing tools including Burp Suite, Postman, and custom scripts, and write API security assessment reports with prioritized remediation guidance. This deep-dive course provides comprehensive technical coverage that goes beyond surface-level understanding. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn to master the nuances, edge cases, and advanced configurations that separate competent practitioners from true experts. Students will engage with complex real-world scenarios and gain the depth of knowledge required to troubleshoot difficult situations, mentor junior team members, and make architectural decisions with confidence.

🎯 Target Audience
  • 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 testing Deep Dive
🧠 What You Will Learn
  • Execute hands-on tasks for api testing deep dive
  • Execute hands-on tasks for course objectives & scope
  • Execute hands-on tasks for plan & execute
  • Execute hands-on tasks for test authentication
  • Execute hands-on tasks for test authorization — covering API security, Break JWT implementations, Identify BOLA/IDOR.
  • Execute hands-on tasks for bypass api key controls — covering Identify BOLA/IDOR.
  • Execute hands-on tasks for logic testing & reporting — covering Fuzz endpoints for injection flaws.
  • Explain API Security Landscape Overview fundamentals
  • Execute hands-on tasks for industry impact — covering Microservices multiply API endpoints.
  • Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including Single endpoint,.
  • Execute hands-on tasks for soap/xml — covering Single endpoint,.
  • Execute hands-on tasks for tester takeaway — covering Each architecture has unique attack patterns — REST BOLA differs from GraphQL query abuse.
📚 Course Outline
Module 01API Testing Deep Dive
Module 02Course Objectives & Scope
Module 03Plan & Execute
Module 04Test Authentication
Module 05Test Authorization
Module 06Bypass API key controls
Module 07Logic Testing & Reporting
Module 08API Security Landscape Overview
Module 09Industry Impact
Module 10API Architecture Fundamentals for Testers
Module 11SOAP/XML
Module 12Tester Takeaway
Module 13Broken Object-Level Auth
Module 14Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Flows
🧪 Lab Details

All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice api testing deep dive 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 testing deep dive
  • Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for course objectives & scope
  • Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for plan & execute
  • Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for test authentication
  • Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for test authorization
📊 Skill Level
Advanced
Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Duration
2 Days
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Certificate
Completion
🖥️
Lab Platform
Rose X OS
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Mode of Training
Online Instructor-Led
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Platform
Zelfire
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Cyber Range
Raven
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Study Material
CyberNotes
🏆 Certificate

Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for API testing Deep Dive, verifiable through the Rocheston certification portal.

🔑 Student Access & Materials
  • 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