Intranet An application is considered to be on the company's intranet if it
is using Internet-type protocols such as HTTP or FTP but the application is
available only within the company. The information on a company's intranet
would not be accessible to persons on the Internet because it is not for public
use. For example, a few years ago I was sitting with my banking officer going
over my account and noticed that the bank had moved all of its customer
account information to a web site and that the banking officer was using a
web browser to retrieve my account details. Although the application was
being used by a web browser, it was still an "internal" application meant only
for banking officers.