CTO’s Blog: Certichron’s Time Server Net­work is a mini-​​NIPRNET style service

The DoD NIPR­net was a unen­crypted FOUO ser­vice network

For the last twnety years, the DoD oper­ated two net­works for com­mu­ni­cat­ing inside the DoD and with the DoD partner’s. These two net­works were the unse­cured NIPR­net and the secured SIPR­net sys­tem. Based in need­ing to up the level of basic secu­rity on the Mil­i­tary net­works, the NIPR­net sys­tem was recently decom­mis­sioned in favor of its fully encrypted SIPR­net brother (the Secret Inter­net Pro­to­col Router net­work) leav­ing a void in the deploy­ment of lower-​​security or other mass-​​deployment fed­eral resources like time. This ser­vice void is what Certichron’s SecureNTP and Direct­Con­nect ser­vices support.

Ceat­ing a uni­fied Fed­eral Time Scale and its Standard

There is legally speak­ing only one US Time­base but funci­ton­ally there is a need to use the time sources from a num­ber of Fed­eral sources. Certichron’s vision of time ser­vices are that US Gov­ern­ment and other National Tim­ing Author­ity mas­ter tim­ing stan­dards need to be oper­ated as an ensem­ble so that each time-​​scale pro­duced can be prop­erly qual­i­fied. Certichron’s time-​​scale is a com­pos­ite of the NIST time ser­vice in the US as a mas­ter legal time anchor, and a USNO pro­vided 1PPS dis­ci­plin­ing heart­beat. The USNO NTP is also tracked and ‘anded’ into the log­ging model to cre­ate a true com­pos­ite time ser­vice which func­tion­ally meets the US National Time Stan­dard, and serves all US Crit­i­cal Infra­struc­ture use cases.

National Deploy­ment

Certichron’s regional ser­vice bureau’s are plumbed with Inter­net acc­cess which ties them together for infor­ma­tion col­lec­tion and com­part­men­tal­iza­tion. NIST cal­i­brates the ser­vice cen­ters con­tin­u­ously as part of the NIST Time Server oper­a­tions prac­tice and Certichron’s pri­vate S1 Peer­ing net.

Get your very own con­nec­tion into the Secure Fed­eral Time Ser­vice Nexus

To ser­vice it’s key Fed­eral and Gov­ern­men­tal users Certichron’s Mini NIPR­net type time ser­vice net­work is a one of a kind in the deploy­ment of the US Time­base for pub­lic and pri­vate users. Agen­cies and Belt­way Sup­port enti­ties can get secure access to the Federally-​​certified time ser­vices across the priv­vate NIPR­net style Direct­Con­nect™ type Extranet facil­ity. X9 and DISA-​​approved time-​​service mod­els for use in Fed­eral Contractor’s are also fully sup­ported. For more infor­ma­tion on SecureNTP and how your Agency can get access to reli­able time and log­ging ser­vices for them, con­tact Sales@​Certichron.​COM or call us at (800)-511‑2301.