CISSP Question of the Week: Secure Communications

Bob manages the sales department. Most of his sales representatives travel among several client sites. He wants to enable these sales representatives to check the shipping status of their orders online. This information currently resides on the company intranet, but it is not accessible to anyone outside the company firewall. Bob has asked you to accomplish this. You decide to create an extranet to allow these employees to view their customers’ order status and history. Which technique could you use to secure communications between network segments sending order-status data via the Internet?

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