Extranet Support for the Enterprise Environment
As described in Chapter 3, enterprises establish extranets in order to automate their business processes with other enterprises, such as their contractors and suppliers. An extranet allows a business partner to access part of the enterprise infrastructure. We assume that the following entities (illustrated in Figure 9.3) are involved in establishing the extranets that are examined here:
An extranet client application. This client application runs in the DMZ of a business partner, which is a supplier to the enterprise in this example. It runs on a machine that supports IPsec. These types of machines are the only entities in the supplier's environment that are allowed to communicate with a set of ...
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