API security is critical in modern software development to protect sensitive data, ensure proper authentication and authorization, maintain data integrity, and guarantee availability. Essential security measures include using HTTPS, implementing strong authentication with API keys or tokens, enforcing authorization policies, rate limiting, input validation, logging and monitoring, secure token management, secure file uploads, updating dependencies, security testing, and having a robust API gateway and incident response plan. Regular updates and proactive security measures are vital for a resilient API infrastructure.

The article discusses the collection and preservation of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) evidence for litigation, differentiating between company-owned and third-party sources. It highlights the simplicity of preserving evidence from company-owned sources with the right tools and the challenges associated with collecting evidence from third-party sources, such as the need for investigators to identify relevant evidence and the difficulty of exporting evidence in a way that proves authenticity. The article also emphasizes the importance of considering a wide range of social media platforms when collecting third-party evidence.