Das Extranet
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During the late 1990s and early 2000s, several industries started to use the term 'extranet' to describe centralized repositories of shared data (and supporting applications) made accessible via the web only to authorized members of particular work groups - for example, geographically dispersed, multi-company project teams. Some applications are offered on a software as a service (SaaS) basis.
For example, in the construction industry, project teams may access a project extranet to share drawings, photographs and documents, and use online applications to mark-up and make comments and to manage and report on project-related communications. In 2003 in the United Kingdom, several of the leading vendors formed the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) to promote the technologies and to establish data exchange standards between the different data systems. The same type of construction-focused technologies have also been developed in the United States, Australia and mainland Europe.[2]
An extranet is a private network that enterprises use to provide trusted third parties -- such as suppliers, vendors, partners, customers and other businesses -- secure, controlled access to business information or operations.
Extranets, which take the form of external-facing websites or platforms, can sometimes be viewed as part of or an extension of the organization's intranet. This is because the information hosted on an extranet is typically only accessible on internal networks. Although information on an extranet is accessible to users outside the company, access is tightly controlled and only awarded to authorized users.
An intranet is a company's private network that hosts an internal website with various resources -- such as a knowledge base, communications channel and/or collaboration platform -- for employees and other select internal users, such as contractors.
Intranets help enhance efficiency and productivity by combining the features of blogs, document and content management systems, databases and wikis. Depending on the platform, they may also facilitate greater employee engagement through interactive features, such as commenting, chat, polls and more.
The primary difference between an intranet and extranet is that the intranet is a private domain. It can play a role in shaping company culture and internal communications, while also serving as a centralized repository for static resources, such as forms, policies and other employee tools. On the other hand, an extranet has a wider audience and a narrower objective, serving primarily as a platform to communicate information with important internal and external stakeholders who require access to internal information.
Both intranets and extranets require security and privacy. Whereas intranets can be accessed by users directly on the enterprise network, extranets -- by nature of being intended for third parties -- typically require some kind of virtual private network (VPN) connection or can be accessed via the internet with additional authentication measures.
Extranet lockout enables security teams to protect users from brute-force attacks when a threat is detected. In this scenario, Active Directory Federation Services, for example, can lock out malicious users from the extranet. Administrators can retrieve lockout event details from the security audit log.
An extranet site in Microsoft SharePoint is a site that you create to let external partners have access to specific content, and to collaborate with them. Extranet sites are a way for partners to securely do business with your organization. The content for your partner is kept in one place and they have only the content and access they need. They don't need to email the documents back and forth or use tools that are not sanctioned by your IT department.
Traditionally, deploying a SharePoint on-premises extranet site involves complex configuration to establish security measures and governance, including granting access inside the corporate firewall, and expensive initial and on-going cost.
But with Microsoft 365, partners connect directly to a members-only site in SharePoint, a team in Microsoft Teams, or a Teams shared channel without access to your on-premises environment or any other teams or sites. Microsoft 365 extranet sites can be accessed anywhere there's an Internet connection.
Time-to-value and Cost savings: a Microsoft 365 B2B extranet eliminates the need for creating a costly on-premises extranet site. No additional hardware is required and using Microsoft 365 greatly reduces the resource and labor costs. Your IT department can focus on more important tasks than creating and maintaining extranet infrastructure.
Auditing and reporting. Microsoft 365 B2B extranet offers visibility into the access of your content by external partner users. One of the key IT benefits is to be able to audit usage, including being able to see who is inviting whom and when a guest logs in to access the content. See Search the audit log in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal for more information.
Security and governance. Microsoft 365 features such as Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps provide a robust feature set to help you create a secure guest sharing environment.
However, in order to register for industry accreditation you MUST create an account with an extranet login to apply for industry accreditation. If you already have an extranet login please use your original login information. For assistance please email indu...@tribecafilm.com
We want to assemble some Confluence spaces with differing levels of assumed access, i.e an intranet that contains information that we would prefer to keep internal, and an extranet with the same information without the internal elements. It is for pages such as Our Products and Our Services.
The hope would be to use the extranet pages as the source of up-to-date information in our customer portals and logged-in web pages, somehow surfacing them as read-only web pages (though we also like to provide the customer with the ability to download a page as a PDF, but that is not as important.
If so, would we need additional licenses for the customers? ... it would not be practical to get them to register, unless it was through our own SSO, but we would not want to pay a full license for such occasional access.
A Confluence space can either be internal (restricted only to users with Confluence licenses) or external (made publicly available to anyone who can browse to the site, regardless if they have a login or not.
One solution you could use is to host your Confluence instance behind a local intranet, and have your admin set it up on your network in a way that users from outside your company firewall cannot access. This way, a user wouldn't need a login to see the page, they'd just have to be within your company firewall.
If you do not put it behind your firewall, then any public articles would be seen by the rest of the internet. If something is private, then you'll need to restrict it to just Confluence users and this does require a license.
3. The Live Search element (when viewed on iOS device) says "Tap to see livesearch content, which prompt the user to go to the App Store, instead of simply letting the user search. confluence.atlassian.com does not do that.
To disable the invitation for your users, it is likely a feature flag that we need to change for your instance. This will require you to contact the Cloud Support Team and they can assist you with that.
The extranet is the central point for WBA member companies to collaborate, manage and store WBA's related information. Management of ongoing PMO activities leverage on extranet features, including documents sharing, meetings scheduling, contact lists, etc. Access to the extranet is restricted to WBA member companies and you are required to have valid login credentials issued to you by WBA for successful login.
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I've been reading about intranets, extranets, DMZs and VPNs now, and I'd need some clarifications related to extranets and DMZs. I understand that they are different types of concepts - extranet allows limited access to some intranet resources, while DMZ is a subnet that sits between the internet and intranet and hosts the external-faced services. However, I'd like to know what is their distinction in practice in a usual setup? The Wikipedia article on extranets says that extranets are similar to DMZs because they are used for the same purpose (providing access to some services/resources without exposing the whole intranet). The article also states that an extranet is a part of a VPN, and this TechNet article also states that extranet access is often implemented similarly to remote intranet access, e.g. with a VPN. The TechNet article also says that commonly the extranet is hosted inside the DMZ. This Pearson article says "Although [the DMZ] is technically located within the intranet, [it] can serve as the extranet as well". This is slightly confusing.
Consider this scenario: A company has a B2C website hosted in the DMZ. The website can be accessed from anywhere, but requires user authentication. The underlying web app has its database inside the intranet and also interacts with some web services that are hosted inside the intranet (i.e. it accesses intranet resources). The way I see it, the website does effectively offer a restricted access to the intranet. But can it be considered an extranet? If we take the Wikipedia definition of an extranet literally - "An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from outside of an organization's intranet" - I think it can.
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