Network Zones

Question 1

What are the three Network Zones?

Answer 1

LAN, WAN, DMZ

Question 2

What is the DMZ?

Answer 2

This zone provides controlled access to publicly available servers that are hosted within your organizations network.

Note: This is where you host your web server and email servers. Tightly controlled zone with very strict access control rules.

Question 3

What is an Extranet?

Answer 3

A specialized type of DMZ that is created for your partner organizations to access over a wide area network.

Note: It acts like a DMZ but is the public does not have access to it.

Question 4

What is an Intranet?

Answer 4

Used to expand your internal network. Generally done using VPN tunnels.