What is DMZ ?
What is DMZ ?
The name DMZ comes from the military term, Demilitarized Zone, we only wanted to have it’s proper TLA (Three Letter Acronym) so it would sound cooler. In the military, the DMZ is a pretty dangerous place to be. Best case you have guns pointing at you from both sides, worst case they’re shooting you to smithereens.
On a network, we create a DMZ to locate components that will interact with users or machines that are in an untrusted zone. Why ? Because the risk that these components are compromised is much bigger and if they would be in our trusted (internal) network, the havoc when it happened would be immense. The DMZ gives us control over the traffic that is allowed to and from the boxes, from both sides.
