4.5 Advantages and limitations of networking

Advantages

1. Enhancement of communication and information availability
   2. Convenient sharing of resources
   3. Easy file/data sharing
   4. Highly flexible
   5. Affordable
   6. Increases cost efficiency
   7. Networking boosts storage capacity

   Disadvantages

   1. Computer network lacks independence
   2. Poses security difficulties
   3. Lacks robustness
   4. Presence of computer viruses and malware
   5. Easy-going policies and light policing of computer networks allow negative activities