API Security Courses and Certifications

API Key Authentication & Security

Use an offense-defense approach to implement and secure API key authentication alongside OAuth, including generation, validation, revocation, and rate limiting.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

API Key Authentication & Security

Learn to implement secure API key authentication alongside OAuth using an offense-defense approach to identify vulnerabilities and build safer key management.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

API Key Authentication & Security

Implement API key authentication securely through an offense-defense approach, from exposing basic vulnerabilities to adding validation, revocation, and rate limiting.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

API Security with the Apigee API Platform

844 ratings at Coursera

Secure REST APIs on Apigee: apply OAuth authorization, JSON Web Tokens, OpenID Connect federated security, transport security, and protection against content-based attacks.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

OWASP API Security TOP 10: A comprehensive guide

3309 ratings at Udemy

Mastering API Protection: From Basic Principles to Advanced Risk Mitigation (2026 Updated)

• Udemy
• 2 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

API Security Testing for Pentesters & Bug Hunters (2026)

Set up vAPI labs with Docker and test REST, SOAP, and GraphQL endpoints for OWASP Top 10 API vulnerabilities using Postman, Swagger UI, and fuzzers.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

OWASP API Security Top 10 Course – Secure Your Web Apps

1 rating

Learn how the OWASP API Security Top 10 identifies and explains common vulnerabilities in web APIs.

• freeCodeCamp
• 1-2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

API Platform 2 Part 2: Security

Secure an API Platform API: json_login authentication, SameSite cookies and CSRF, access control voters, password encoding with data persisters, dynamic serialization groups, and custom normalizers.

• SymfonyCasts
• 4 hours 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

API Platform 3 Part 2: Security for your Treasures

Secure an API Platform API: build API tokens with scopes, json_login sessions, security voters, conditional fields, custom validators, and a test suite with zenstruck/browser.

• SymfonyCasts
• 3 hours 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform, teaches you how to secure APIs using OAuth, JWTs, and federated security, and navigate real-world security challenges and protect against malicious

• edX
• 3 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

REST API Security

Exclusive content for the CCNP Enterprise Learning Path.

• INE
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Learn to recognize and mitigate the OWASP API Security Top 10, including authorization flaws, injection attacks, misconfiguration, and weak monitoring.

• Cybrary
• 1-2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

Secure APIs on Apigee: apply OAuth grant types, JWT and OpenID Connect, JSON and regex threat protection, transport security, and data masking in hands-on labs.

• Google Skills
• 1 day
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

API Security for PCI Compliance (Data Security Standard)

Learn how API security supports PCI DSS compliance.

• freeCodeCamp
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

API Security Fundamentals

An introductory tour of API security covering OWASP API risks, attack analysis, security pillars, and the technology landscape.

• freeCodeCamp
• 1 hour 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video