Time Server – Security and Legal Protection

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• Time Server – security and legal protection Dedicated time servers are used throughout the world to ensure computer networks are synchronised. Not only does a synchronised network offer more security but synchronisation using a dedicated time server can offer legal protection. Because dedicated time servers use such a secure and reliable method of keeping time (atomic clock signals from either the GPS network or radio broadcasts) the time can be legally audited to few milliseconds. However, networks synchronised using an Internet timing source can not be audited and this can leave these systems open to abuse or even fraud. Dedicated time servers are also based behind a firewall ensuring ...
  
  
• Five Reasons Why You Should Never Use an Internet Timing Source Time synchronisation is now an integral part of network administration. Networks that are not synchronised to UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time) become isolated; unable to process time sensitive transactions or communicate securely with other networks. UTC time has been developed to allow the entire globe to communicate under a single time-frame and it is based on the time told by atomic clocks. To synchronise to UTC time many network administrators simply connect to an Internet timing source and assume they are receiving a secure source of UTC time. However, there are pitfalls to this and any network that requires security should NEVER ...
  
  
• Five reasons why you should use a network time server for synchronisation 5. Synchronisation is vital for any network that conducts time sensitive transactions. Computers use time as the only point of reference between events and if computers on a network are all running different times then untold problems can occur. The problems increase many-fold if a network has to communicate with another network. 4. UTC (coordinated universal time) is a global timescale used all over the world ensuring that all networks linked to a UTC time source are running identical times. Not having synchronisation to UTC can mean that many International Transactions are just not possible. 3. A network time server is a ...
  
  
• Does My Business Need Accurate Time Synchronisation Time synchronisation can be crucial for many computer networks. Correct synchronisation can protect a system from all sorts of security threats it will also ensure that the network is accurate and reliable but are dedicated NTP time server systems really necessary or can a network be run securely without a network time server? Here are five questions to ask yourself to see if your network needs to be adequately synchronised. 1. Does your network conduct time sensitive transactions across the internet? If yes then accurate network time synchronisation is essential. Time is the only point of reference a computer has to identify ...
  
  
• Five Reasons Why Your Business Needs an NTP Server (part 2) 3. Security Breaches: When networks are not synchronised log files are not recorded properly or in the right order which means that hackers and malicious users can breach security unnoticed. Many security software programs are also reliant on timestamps with anti-virus updates failing to happen or scheduled tasks falling behind. If your network controls time-sensitive transactions then this can even result in fraud if there is a lack of synchronisation. 4. Legal Vulnerability: Time is not just used by computers to order events it is used in the legal world too. Contracts, receipts, proof-of-purchase are all reliant on time. If a network is ...