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.
- 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.

Premium Version
API Red Team Analyst (API-RTA)
$49 $9
Top features:
- 3.5+ hours of HD video content.
- 170+ pages of PDF study material.
- Unlimited Exam Attempts
- CWL Verified API-RTA Certificate



































