Firewalling private internet connections

[Mike Figg <figg @ pencom . com>]

Greetings,

I am looking for someone to relate their experience with the issue of providing  
private internet connections between institutions or organizations.  I suspect,  
though I have no example of it, that there are many instances where  
organizations establish private internet connections between themselves to  
support commerce-related traffic because they don't want to send sensitive data  
through public networks.

For these private connections, what are the typical security policies, and what  
kinds of firewall configurations are used to implement these security policies?

Thanks,
Mike
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