Demilitarized Zone Definition
dē-mĭlĭ-tə-rīzd
noun
An area from which military forces, operations, and installations are prohibited.
American Heritage
(computing) A subnetwork of a LAN, exposed to the internet or another untrusted network but firewalled off from the rest of the LAN.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- no-man-s-land
- buffer-zone
- neutral territory
- buffer
- dmz
- neutral ground
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In the military, this is the boundary between two or more groups where military activity is not permitted, usually because of some treaty. In computer networks, the DMZ is a network or portion of the network separated from other systems by a firewall. The firewall lets only certain types of network traffic enter or exit. Many companies protect their internal networks from the Internet using a firewall but have a separate DMZ to which the public can have only limited access. For example, public Web servers might be located in the DMZ.
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demilitarized zone
Plural:
demilitarized zonesFind Similar Words
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