About Arcnet
An independent technology publication for the people who build, secure and run software.
Most technology writing is aimed at someone deciding whether to buy. Arcnet is aimed at the person who will have to make the thing work afterwards — the engineer, the admin, the analyst, the marketer who inherited the stack. We write for people who need to understand something well enough to act on it, not well enough to repeat it in a meeting.
That means fewer announcements and more explanation. When a new threat appears, we want to tell you what it actually does and what to change. When a tool gets a new feature, we want to tell you whether it solves a problem you have.
What we cover
Arcnet publishes across six areas, and they overlap more every year:
- Cybersecurity — threats, defences and the practical security decisions teams actually face.
- AI — what the models can and cannot do, and what that means for the work.
- Software Development — languages, architecture, tooling and the trade-offs behind them.
- IT — infrastructure, networking and keeping systems running.
- Digital Marketing — search, analytics and the technical side of reaching people.
- Tech — the broader shifts that do not fit neatly in one box.
Everything we have published is in the full archive.
How our articles are built
Arcnet articles follow a deliberate shape, because most people arrive from a search with one specific question and limited patience.
- A direct answer, first. Most articles open with a short answer to the question in the title. If that is all you needed, you can leave — we would rather be useful than keep you on the page.
- Key takeaways. The points that matter, pulled out so you can scan them before deciding whether to read on.
- A table of contents. Longer pieces are navigable, so you can go straight to the section you came for.
- Tested instructions. Where we give steps, we note the software version we tested them against, because a procedure that worked two releases ago is not guidance.
- Sources you can check. Claims of fact are linked to where they came from — vendor documentation, advisories, standards bodies, published research.
Who writes here
Every article carries a byline and links to its author’s profile. We think that matters: if nobody’s name is on a piece, nobody is accountable for it.
Our writing is led by Akanksha Nishad, who researches and writes the majority of what you read here. You can see everything she has published, and how to reach her, on her author page.
What we will not do
Being clear about this is part of being worth reading.
- We do not sell coverage. No amount of advertising buys an article, changes a conclusion, or keeps criticism out of a piece.
- We do not publish unverified machine-generated text. AI tools may help us research and edit; a named human is responsible for every article’s accuracy. Our editorial policy spells this out.
- We do not quietly fix mistakes. Corrections are made openly, with a note saying what changed and when.
- We do not pad. If a question has a two-paragraph answer, it gets two paragraphs.
How we research, verify, correct and label things is set out in full in our editorial policy. The limits of what you should rely on this site for are in our disclaimer.
Write for us
We publish guest contributions from people with real operating experience — engineers, security practitioners, developers and marketers who have done the thing they want to write about.
We are interested in specifics: a problem you solved, a tool you pushed past its limits, a mistake worth other people not repeating. We are not interested in pieces written to place a link. Guest articles are held to the same standards as our own, carry your byline, and are edited for clarity.
Pitch us through the contact page — tell us what you want to write and why you are the person to write it.
Get in touch
Corrections, story tips, questions, partnership enquiries, or a disagreement with something we published — all of it goes through the contact page, and we read everything that arrives.