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Intranet

From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

Definition: An Intranet is an Internet with restricted access. Corporate Intranets generally use the exact some communication lines as the rest of the Internet, but have security in place to restrict access to the employees, customers or suppliers that they wish to grant it to.
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