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API Red Team Analyst (API-RTA)

  • Attacker-driven training to assess modern APIs across web, mobile, cloud, and microservices.
  • Builds deep technical skills for real-world API security testing and exploitation.
  • Covers API recon, auth flaws, data abuse, and cloud-native attack chains.
  • Hands-on end-to-end API assessments from discovery to exploiting logic and backend flaws.

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API Red Team Analyst (API-RTA)

The course content is divided across 7 sections listed below:

Introduction to API-RTA

  • Course overview, certification process, lab architecture, Kali-based lab setup, and exam lab orientation.

Introduction to API Pentesting

  • API fundamentals: architecture, protocols (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets).
  • API security threats & OWASP API Top 10.

Reconnaissance & Discovery

  • Endpoint discovery via crawling, fuzzing, JS/JSON/YAML analysis.
  • Understanding and exploiting API documentation: OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman Collections, GraphQL introspection.

API Pentesting Tools

  • Burp Suite basics.
  • Postman workflows & proxying.
  • FFUF fuzzing, Nuclei scanning & tuning, Katana crawling.
  • Hands-on tool demonstrations.

Authentication & Authorization Attacks

  • AuthN vs AuthZ basics.
  • JWT internals, OAuth 2.0 flows, OIDC variants.
  • Practical attacks on OAuth/OIDC, Broken Access Control, BOLA, Mass Assignment, and other auth flaws.

API Data Flow Manipulation & Execution Attacks

  • SQLi, NoSQLi, GraphQL Injection, Command Injection.
  • SSRF, insecure file handling (upload/path traversal), parameter tampering, race conditions.
  • Comprehensive exploitation demos.

Advanced API Manipulation & Exploitation Vectors

  • LLM prompt injection attacks.
  • Cloud-native API exploitation.
  • Sensitive data exposure through debug endpoints, OAuth userinfo leaks, malformed responses, and cloud logs.
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  • Unlimited Challenge Attempts
  • Gamified flag based challenges
  • Perform offensive operations across API infrastructure
  • Earn & Show-off your CWL Verified API-RTA Certificate
  • Join CWL Red Team Community (Discord Channel)

Pre-requisites

Following are the requirements:

  • System with 16 GB+ RAM & 256 GB SSD/HDD.
  • Ability to run a hypervisor on the system (Hyper-V, QEMU, VirtualBox, or VMware).
  • Comfortable with basic networking and HTTP concepts (requests, responses, headers, status codes, ports).
  • Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, and web application architecture (client/server, cookies, sessions).
  • Basic Linux command‑line skills (shell, editing files, process management) and file-system navigation.
  • Some programming experience (Python, JavaScript, or similar) sufficient to read and write small scripts.

Target Audience

Targeted Audience may include the following group of people:

  • Web developers and software engineers who want to understand how attackers exploit API flaws.
  • Security engineers, pentesters, and red‑teamers seeking hands‑on skill development and tooling proficiency.
  • DevOps and SRE professionals responsible for deploying and hardening APIs.
  • QA engineers interested in integrating security testing into API infrastructure.
  • Technical team leads and architects who must prioritize remediation and design secure systems.
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API Red Team Analyst (API-RTA)

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Top features:

  • 3.5+ hours of HD video content.
  • 170+ pages of PDF study material.
  • Unlimited Exam Attempts
  • CWL Verified API-RTA Certificate

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F.A.Q

Where do I access the API-RTA course materials and challenge labs?

Study Materials + Lab access via Labs portal (CCSP) : https://labs.cyberwarfare.live (login using enrolled email)

You can view videos & PDF materials under the API-RTA Materials section, once you are done, feel free to proceed to the Lab Access section  for the lab activation.

Will I have lifetime access to the API-RTA content?

Yes, you will have lifetime access to all study materials and recorded content. However, challenge labs may have time-limited access based on updates.

How much time will it take to complete the course?

The estimated time to complete the API-RTA certification is around 20-30 hours, depending on your prior experience and pace of learning.

How do I participate in the API-RTA Challenge Lab?

The challenge labs are part of the course and will be accessible via the CCSP Platform. Detailed instructions will be provided in the course module..

How do I earn the API-RTA Certificate?

 To earn the CWL API-RTA Certificate, you must:

  • Complete the required modules.
  • Access & Practise the 30 Days hands on labs.
  • Submit all the 13 flags for the API-RTA exam.

Receive a CWL verified certificate.

Why am I not receiving the registration email after purchase?

Registration emails are sent automatically after purchase. Please check your spam/junk folder. If you still haven’t received it within 24 hours, contact [email protected].

What is included in the API-RTA package?
  • 3.5+ hours of HD video content.
  • 170+ pages of PDF study material.
  • 30 Days Practise Lab.
  • Email based Technical Support.
  • Unlimited Exam Attempts + CWL Certificate
What are the career opportunities after completing the API-RTA course?

API-RTA equips you with hands-on skills in API security. Potential career paths include:

  • Penetration Tester
  • Product Security Consultant
  • Application Security Engineer
Do you have a refund policy?

CWL follows a strict no-refund policy once access is granted. Please review the course details carefully before purchasing.

Have more questions?

If your query isn’t listed here, feel free to contact [email protected].

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