What term describes a network owned by one organization that provides secure access to individuals who work for a different organization?

• A. Extranet
• B. Cloud
• C. BYOD
• D. Quality of Service

Answer: (A)

Extranet.

Think of an extranet as extending a private company network to trusted external partners. It’s owned by the organization, but it grants secure, controlled access to people who work for a different organization—typically through VPNs, secure portals, or dedicated connections with strong authentication and access controls. This lets partners, suppliers, or customers reach only the resources they’re allowed to see, while the core internal network remains protected.

This is different from an intranet, which is for internal employees only. It’s not cloud-based hosting, which refers to services or data run on external infrastructure, nor is it about devices (BYOD) or traffic management (QoS).