CTO’s Blog: Do you out­source your time-​​service and the trust anchor?

Seri­ously — where do you get your time from?

Is it a Gov­ern­ment source? and if so is it the offi­cial Legal Time Source or one from some other agency?

It does make a dif­fer­ence! And does the Gov­ern­ment cer­tify your inter­face? Really? think the answer to that through care­fully because its almost always no. The processes you use to con­nect to fed­eral time sources are all pro­vided by third par­ties. So how did you val­i­date they work right and work right con­tin­u­ously? Its a legit­i­mate ques­tion in today’s dig­i­tal world.

I bet you never thought about this before but it’s time (par­don the pun). The real­ity of the ephemeral life is that reli­able events in a dig­i­tal con­text take con­tin­u­ous evi­dence for all actions, all reac­tions and any and all orders which extend into the real world or other finan­cial systems.

That means that some­time in the future you will need to be able to prove records from mul­ti­ple loca­tions and from a myr­iad of sys­tems so that events they pur­port are real will all prop­erly inte­grate so that key events can be com­pared to each other for any num­ber of key rea­sons and not in the cur­rent but in the past since you will be defend­ing dig­i­tal records some­time in the future.

In the US NIST is the legal source of time

For its com­mer­cial cus­tomers Cer­tichron pro­vides a reli­able dig­i­tal time-​​anchor ser­vice pro­vid­ing NIST time as the source of all US ser­vices. In doing this Cer­tichron pro­vides direct access to NIST and other national tim­ing stan­dards to meet all use needs. NIST oper­ates a num­ber of time servers on the Inter­net for pub­lic access. Cer­tichron sup­ports this pro­gram by sup­port­ing five of those twenty one sys­tems. This unique trusted dig­i­tal inter­me­di­ary meets all com­mer­cial and leg­isla­tive require­ments for oper­at­ing both a time-​​service and a secured data archive for con­tent reg­is­tra­tion against the time service.

Certichron’s trusted NTP ser­vice called SecureNTP™ is per­fect as an exter­nal trust-​​anchor for any and all oper­a­tions whether using soft­ware or appli­ance based NTP servers. Ceritchron’s unique ser­vices ensure that all client’s every­where in the US and all sup­ported inter­na­tional sites get access to the same NIST/​NORAMET(UTC) cal­i­brated through the NIST net­work man­age­ment infrastructure.

Whether you oper­ate a net­work of trans­ac­tion sys­tems split across a hun­dred cities Cer­tichron can sup­ply evi­dence of proper time-​​management for your most impor­tant busi­ness sys­tems, an enable­ment which opens any num­ber of dig­i­tal con­trol based oper­at­ing mod­els using dig­i­tal tim­stamps as key evi­dence  of prop­erly com­pleted transactions.

Certichron’s  SecureNTP sys­tem is the answer to oper­at­ing a reli­able data cap­ture envi­ron­ment every­where in the US and its the most cost effec­tive solu­tion to to adding trust to time man­age­ment evi­dence systems.

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