Wireless Network Security: Strategies, Advantages, and Disadvantages

This report provides an overview of wireless network security, emphasizing the importance of securing data transfer in an unguided medium. It highlights the vulnerabilities of wireless networks, such as susceptibility to attacks and data theft, and discusses the increasing reliance on wireless networks in businesses. The report identifies key strategies for ensuring secure data communication, including encryption, strong passwords, and updated security patches. It evaluates the effectiveness of these strategies, contrasting data segregation with encryption, and proposes the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a robust solution. The advantages of VPNs, such as minimal data theft risk and IP address hiding, are discussed, along with the potential complexity of implementation. The report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of various data protection strategies and proposes a proper strategy for data protection.

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It is essential to ensure security of the wireless communication. The research is been
undertaken in order to identify strategies that can ensure secure data transfer in a wireless
network. The abstract has been prepared to summarize the different aspects of network security
in wireless communication network so that proper strategies of securing the data transfer in a
wireless network. The overall purpose of this abstract is to identify the strategies and to evaluate
the advantages and disadvantages of those strategies.
The abstract discusses the different reasons behind the vulnerability of a wireless
network. Network security in a wireless network is important as the transmission medium of
wireless network is unguided, which becomes easy target for the hackers. The use of wireless
network in different business organization has increased over the years mainly because of
advantages it provides. However, along with the ease of use, it brings in certain security issues as
well. These security issues include denial of service attacks, data theft using rogue APIs and so.
Wireless network is an easy target of the intruders as they can quite easily make use of certain
antennas to detect the signals and decode the messages that are transferred through the wireless
medium if proper security measures are not ensured. This is one of the significant reasons why
the network security is considered to be one of the biggest concerns of the organization. The
threats associated with the use of wireless communication network mainly because it makes use
of air waves of as the wireless medium.
A number of strategies are proposed in order to ensure that secure data communication is
established in wireless network, one of the most significant being the use of proper encryption
and authorization control. This is because if an encrypted data is transferred through a medium,

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the chances of data theft is minimized since the attacker would not probably be able to
understand the message that is being transferred even if they get an access to the message that is
being transferred. Apart from this, the use of passwords in the network devices is another
significant strategy that can be used for ensuring proper protection of data in wireless
communication network. The password however should be strong enough so that it cannot be
easily identified by the intruders. Apart from that it is essential to prevent guest access to the
network as it might make the network vulnerable to attacks. Apart from strong password
protection of the wireless devices, it is essential to keep the devices up to date with the latest
security patch so that the security issues in the wireless network can be mitigated. The use of up
to date security patches and up to date antivirus reduces the chances of an intruder in gaining an
access to the wireless network and the data that is transferred through the network.
The two fundamental approaches of ensuring proper data protection in the network is
segregation and encryption. The data segregation however does not provide true data protection
as it only safeguards a part of the network from an already compromised network. Therefore this
strategy cannot be considered as a significant strategy of ensuring data protection in wireless
communication network. Therefore data encryption is considered to be one of the significant
strategies for ensure secure data transfer through a wireless medium. In this regard, the use of
virtual private network is proposed for ensuring proper data protection in the wireless medium. It
is one of most secure strategy for proper sharing confidential information as an encrypted
message is sent through the VPN tunnel to the receiver. The encryption and secure data transfer
through the tunnel prevents the unauthorized data access and transfer of data. The advantage of
use of a virtual private network is that there are little or no chances of data theft through the
virtual private network. Furthermore, the VPN hides the actual IP address making the connection

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even more secure and strong. Establishing a VPN is a cost effective solution as well since, which
is another significant advantage of making use of a VPN. The disadvantage of VPN is that
establishing a VPN in a company can be complex.
The abstract provides an overview of the different strategies that can be implemented in
a wireless network in order to prevent any unauthorized access to the data that is shared in a
wireless medium. The abstract further discusses the different types of attacks that a network can
face in order to propose a proper strategy of data protection.