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Simply what is a DMZ?

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by thinknologist

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While I was surfing, I have ran on this term DMZ. I read some of its technicalities and I could not follow their terminologies.

Can somebody out there explain this term.

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by maxwell edison

In computer networks, a DMZ (demilitarized zone) is a computer host or small network inserted as a "neutral zone" between a company's private network and the outside public network. It prevents outside users from getting direct access to a server that has company data. (The term comes from the geographic buffer zone that was set up between North Korea and South Korea following the UN "police action" in the early 1950s.) A DMZ is an optional and more secure approach to a firewall and effectivelyacts as a proxy server as well.

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