Posted on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 3:42 pm CDT
Proxies are systems or applications that process the requests received from other servers. When someone wants to access a website or a file, the proxy server considers the request to allow access to the outsider. Proxies are used a lot on private networks for security reasons. Confidential information can be leaked when security is breached. Thus private proxies are used to control these threats.
Source: ProxiesNow