Broken Access Control Courses and Certifications

A01: Broken Access Control

Hands-on practice finding and fixing broken access control in APIs and administrative web endpoints.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

A01: Broken Access Control

Hands-on practice exploits and fixes broken access control through parameter validation, JWT checks, role verification, privilege-escalation defenses, and sensitive-data protection.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

A01: Broken Access Control

Hands-on practice finding and fixing broken access control in Java web applications, from forced browsing and privilege escalation to protecting sensitive user data.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

OWASP Top 10: Broken Access Control

67 ratings at Codecademy

Learn to identify and prevent broken access control, the top-ranked 2021 OWASP web application security risk.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Learn how to find and exploit the #1 vulnerability on the OWASP Top 10 using a fully built medical patient portal with over a dozen real-world bugs.

• HackingHub
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Identify, exploit, and remediate broken access control and IDOR vulnerabilities through intercepting proxy demos, OWASP Mutillidae walkthroughs, breach scenarios, and hands-on labs.

• Cybrary
• 2-3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Bugcrowd

Bugcrowd University - Broken Access Control Testing

Learn to find broken access controls through IDOR variants, direct function calls, forceful browsing, and parameter manipulation.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Web Application Ethical Hacking - Penetration Testing Course for Beginners

35 ratings

Learn web app penetration testing. You will learn pentesting techniques, tools, common attacks and more. The tools covered in the course include Burp Suite, Nikto, Dirbuster, curl, sublist3r, nmap, and many others.

• freeCodeCamp
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bugcrowd

What is Access Control and How Can You Break It?

An introduction to access control that explains its types and how they can be broken.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cyber Mentor

Web App Testing - XSS, SQL Injection, and Broken Access Control

A web application testing episode focused on XSS, SQL injection, and broken access control.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Learn Web Security in Go

Harden Go web applications with net/http by applying OWASP Top 10 defenses, secure authentication and authorization, encrypted storage, and incident response.

• Boot.dev
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Learn Web Security in TypeScript

Harden a real Express app by applying the OWASP Top 10 to authentication, authorization, and incident response.

• Boot.dev
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Infosec

OWASP Top 10 - Welcome and Risks 1-5

75 ratings at Coursera

Explore the OWASP Top 10: how the list is built and ranked, then examine broken access control, cryptographic failures, injection attacks, insecure design and security misconfiguration.

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

Cyber Mentor

Understanding Broken Access Control - Security Vulnerabilities and Testing

Explore real-world broken access control vulnerabilities beyond IDOR, with hands-on lab demonstrations and practical testing strategies for security assessments and penetration testing.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OWASP Foundation

Fixing Broken Access Control - Cloud-Native Authorization Principles and Patterns

Explore cloud-native authorization principles, comparing OPA and Zanzibar models for robust access control systems. Learn about fine-grained controls to secure your applications and APIs.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video