Security Concerns For Expanding Intranet Application To Internet

Question

Your company developed an Order Entry Intranet application for its sales personnel to enter orders for processing on behalf of their customers. Now your company wants to make a version of this Order Entry application accessible over the Internet so that customers can enter their orders directly by themselves without the assistance of a sales person.

As the resident security expert in your company, you are asked by the CEO of the company to:
·    Contrast security context of the proposed Order Entry Internet web application from the security of its Intranet version of the same application
·    Identify and explain at least four reasons that make Internet web applications more susceptible to hacking than their Intranet counterparts

Write a 2-3 page word document to present your analysis and finding to the CEO of your company.
 
Summary

The question belongs to Computer Science and it discusses about developing an application for the internet where customers can place orders directly on the company’s website. The security concerns about porting an application from intranet to the internet has been discussed in the solution.

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