The university network is shielded from direct connection to the Internet by a firewall. The internal university network is subdivided by the firewall into two sections, an extranet and an intranet.

Each of these sections contains a secure area for confidential data and transactions.

You may decide that you do not want to allow the general Internet to access your IT resources, but you would still like to provide a way for university employees, students, and guests to access these resources. In this case, you may utilize the university's VPN.