API Bot Attack Defense

Modern applications increasingly rely on APIs, making them a major target for automated abuse. This course focuses specifically on protecting APIs from malicious automation, excessive requests, authentication abuse, token misuse, replay risks, and automated data extraction. Key Topics: API security fundamentals Automated API abuse Credential attacks against APIs Token abuse Session abuse Replay risks Excessive request patterns API scraping Resource exhaustion Rate limiting Authentication controls Authorization controls API gateways Request validation Schema validation Monitoring and logging API anomaly detection Bot scoring for APIs Incident response Learning Outcomes: Participants will understand how automated attacks differ between traditional web applications and APIs and how API gateways, authentication, rate limiting, monitoring, and behavioral controls can be combined for protection.