| Many times the older versions of technological | | | | within the company are stolen and sold to the |
| advancements will work to give the new versions a | | | | competitors all over the world. This happens even with |
| better foundation for work. This is the case with most | | | | the most sophisticated security software available on |
| of the things that work to make a business more | | | | the market today. It is nearly impossible to maintain |
| secure within itself. In today's day and age there is a | | | | security when the system is hooked directly to the |
| real need for security with the companies that operate | | | | internet in one way or another. |
| all over the world. Industrial and corporate theft is at an | | | | This is why the bulk of the companies are now using |
| all time high and this has made the companies of the | | | | the intranet features. The intranet is a concept that |
| world fold themselves into the vale of secrecy to | | | | was developed many years ago when the internet |
| protect the many things that will make them or break | | | | was in its infancy. The actual basis for the intranet |
| them as a whole. This is where the inter-company | | | | was developed during World War II when the allied |
| policies for the sharing of information have been | | | | forces were linked to one another by way of cables |
| revamped to make room for a higher security rating. | | | | and telephone wires. This allowed for private |
| The main focus of the companies in this world at this | | | | communication with the other forces that could not be |
| point is to be able to share information within the | | | | intercepted. The same concept is now being applied to |
| company without that information being tapped into by | | | | the intranet systems that work with the companies to |
| the outside sources. Until recently they have used the | | | | maintain security while still taking advantage of the |
| internet as a way of maintaining that kind of | | | | computer based company communication. |
| communication by way of email and other office type | | | | In essence the intranet is nothing more than a small |
| communications. This was a problem because the | | | | chunk of internet capabilities that are not hooked to the |
| internet is a wide open space that allows for people | | | | global lines. An intranet is a hook up of all computers in |
| that are very computer savvy to break through the | | | | a company to allow for the speedy delivery of |
| barriers and gain access to all sorts of information. | | | | messages and other information on a computer. The |
| The hacker, as they are well known, finds a place to | | | | safety that comes with the intranet is vast. The |
| lay within the system where detection is nearly | | | | system is not attached in anyway to an outside |
| impossible and intercepts all of the valuable information | | | | system like you find with the internet. This way there is |
| that is send back and fourth between the employees. | | | | no way that a hacker can gain access to the system |
| This is the way that the ideas and concepts from | | | | unless he or she is physically inside the building. |