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# Management API Overview

The Management API is an HTTP API for administering an organization's folders, folder
members, and folder-scoped API keys programmatically — the same resources you manage
from **Settings** → **Manage folders** in the dashboard. It is intended for organization
administrators automating workspace setup, for example provisioning folders and API keys
from CI.

The API operates entirely within one organization: every request is scoped to the
organization of the Management API Key that authenticates it, and there is no way to
read or change another organization's data.

## Base URL

The API is served on a per-tenancy host. Use the base URL for the tenancy your
organization belongs to:

| Tenancy | Base URL                    |
| ------- | --------------------------- |
| US      | `red-webhooks.lakera.ai`    |
| EU      | `red-webhooks-eu.lakera.ai` |

If you are unsure which tenancy your organization uses, check the region shown in the
dashboard or ask your Check Point contact.

The examples in this section export the host once and reuse it, so a request never
hardcodes a region:

```bash
export LAKERA_RED_HOST=red-webhooks.lakera.ai # EU tenancy: red-webhooks-eu.lakera.ai
```

Paths shown below are relative to that host.

## Authentication

Every request authenticates with a **Management API Key** sent as a bearer token:

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAKERA_MANAGEMENT_KEY" \
  https://$LAKERA_RED_HOST/management/whoami
```

A Management API Key is distinct from the folder-scoped Red Team API Keys used with the
[SDK](/docs/red/sdk-quickstart): it authorizes organization-level administration rather
than target and scan access. Management API Keys are created in the dashboard by an
organization administrator (see
[Obtaining a Management API Key](#obtaining-a-management-api-key)); the API itself never
mints one. A folder-scoped key sent to a management endpoint is rejected with `403`.

An organization administrator's authority is verified when the key is minted, and the
key is then trusted until it is revoked. A Management API Key is revoked manually, or
automatically when its owner loses organization membership.

## Obtaining a Management API Key

Management API Keys are created in the dashboard, not through the API. Only an
organization administrator can create one:

1. Sign in to the dashboard as an organization administrator.
2. Open **Settings** → **Management API Keys**.
3. Select **Create key**, give it a name that identifies where it will be used (for
   example `CI pipeline` or `terraform`), and select **Create**.
4. Copy the key from the confirmation dialog. The secret is shown only once and cannot
   be retrieved afterward, so store it in your secret manager before closing the dialog.

The **Management API Keys** entry appears under **Settings** only for organization
administrators. If you do not see it, you are not an administrator of the organization —
ask an administrator to create a key for you, or to grant you the administrator role.

To stop a key from working, revoke it from the same page. Revocation takes effect
immediately.

## Confirm a key

`GET /management/whoami` returns the organization a Management API Key administers, so
automation can verify a credential before issuing real calls.

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAKERA_MANAGEMENT_KEY" \
  https://$LAKERA_RED_HOST/management/whoami
```

```json
{ "orgId": "org_abc123", "keyId": "..." }
```

## Errors

Responses use conventional HTTP status codes. Error bodies are JSON of the form
`{ "error": "<message>" }`.

| Status | Meaning                                                                                                                                  |
| ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 400    | The request is malformed — an invalid id, a missing required field, or a rejected value (for example, renaming the organization folder). |
| 401    | No key was supplied, or the key is unknown or revoked.                                                                                   |
| 403    | The key is not a Management API Key, or the request targets a resource in another organization.                                          |
| 404    | The addressed folder does not exist in the key's organization.                                                                           |
| 405    | The HTTP method is not allowed on that path.                                                                                             |

Requesting a resource that belongs to another organization returns `404` on reads (a
folder in another organization is indistinguishable from one that does not exist) and
`403` on writes.

## Endpoints

| Resource                                          | Page                                               |
| ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| Folders — create, list, rename, delete            | [Folders](/docs/red/management-api-folders)        |
| Members — list org-wide, add, change role, remove | [Members](/docs/red/management-api-members)        |
| Red Team API keys — create, list, rotate, revoke  | [Red Team API Keys](/docs/red/management-api-keys) |
| Audit trail — the organization's action history   | [Audit Trail](/docs/red/management-api-audit)      |