Leeron is a New York-based writer who specializes in covering technology for small and mid-sized businesses. Her work has been featured in publications including Bankrate, Quartz, the Village Voice, ...

Software that analyzes a network to determine its exposure to unwanted intruders. Also called a "vulnerability scanner," such products check client PCs, servers, routers, firewalls, network appliances ...

Businesses today compete in an increasingly complicated IT environment. Nearly everyone from co-location providers, to traditional telco operators, international organizations and small and medium ...

Containers represent the next generation of virtualization technology for cloud environments. They can best be described as a self-contained unit of software—including application code plus its ...

Access control to a file, printer or other network resource based on username. It provides greater protection than share-level security, because users are identified individually or within a group.