– A friend of mine in IT is always talking about the “secondary” or “private” internet network that big name corporations operate on, outside of “normal internet” traffic. What is this network, and how is it accessed?

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– A friend of mine in IT is always talking about the “secondary” or “private” internet network that big name corporations operate on, outside of “normal internet” traffic. What is this network, and how is it accessed?

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Answer 1

Do you mean an INTRAnet?

This is just an internal network for a company.

What this means is that for computers in an intranet they are essentially “automatically” trusted. This means that the data/files that gets transferred between the different computers within the network doesn’t need to be checked. This is because the data is either created within the network or checked whilst entering.

The internet is the method in which multiple separate networks connect to each other. For security reasons, each byte of information that is transferred between these networks must be checked to ensure the integrity of each individual network (intranet).