Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Data communication systems allow companies to communicate vital information either to suppliers, investors, and customers. However, there arise concerns regarding the systems’ ability to protect this information from disruption, usage, modification, and access from unauthorized personnel (Hossain et al., 2015). The primary concerns that companies should consider are data privacy and security. While transferring data through wireless networks, it is a prerequisite for IT experts at a company to recognize that this data and information is prone to hacking. Hackers frequently try to penetrate network connections with the intentions of tampering, stealing, and spying information about corporations, their customers, and products (Hossain et al., 2015). In other words, data communications through wireless networks are less secure and are prone to hacking, which could eventually make the system’s software dysfunctional.
Wireless networks rely on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) to receive or send data among the users. Significantly, the effectiveness of WAP to receive and send data depends on the networks, user interface, and the network (Sarkar et al., 2016).
Pros of WAP
- Enables the efficiency of data transfer
- With added features such as wireless telephony application and personalization, WAP has improved the privacy level
- WAP is affordable and more comfortable to install in an organization setting since the company does not incur extra costs of buying and installing internet cables.
- WAP also provides its users with a higher level of flexibility (Sarkar et al., 2016).
Cons of WAP
- WAP faces the risk of attack from unauthorized users
- WAP is less efficient and slower compared to wired networks
- WAP installations are usually affected by radio interferences, which make them slower (Sarkar et al., 2016).