Definitions: What is "Deep web?"

Coming close on the heels of my previous post –  “Dark web“, we will be defining “Deep web” in this blog post.  Similar to “Dark web“, the “Deep web” cannot be searched by traditional search engines as well. So, what is present in this “Deep web”, which sounds so similar to “Dark web”?  Here are a few features of the “Deep web”:
1. They cannot be indexed by popular search engines as well.
2.  The “Deep web” has content that you do not want everyone to see. The “Deep web” contents are:bank account statements,  contents of your email , medical information, academic information, databases and any dynamically generated information.
While “Dark web” is associated with illegal content, “Deep web” does not have that connotation.
3. In addition, it does not require special browsers to view it.
As seen in the previous blog post, surface web(the place where we mostly interact like Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels), the “Deep web” and the “Dark web” are best represented by an “iceberg”. The iceberg is the perfect representation of the amount of information that is visible to us (which is hardly any!)

Join me as I uncover more of the tangled web in Information Security! 🙂