What is Time-synchronization in Business?
“Inherent chaos and unpredictability in an unsynchronized network makes it impossible to detect any hacking because the log files that are used to trace the history of an event are themselves time sensitive. ”
This age is an age of information and Internet. Almost every business is involved in transactions in the cyber space. This necessitates that time-synchronization of various aspects of a business is effected properly.Let’s take an example. You have to send a very important e-mail and your network is not synchronized with respect to time. What do you think would happen? It may seem surprising but it’s a reality that your e-mail may not be received despite its being sent by you. Let’s understand this.
Actually, in case of computers time is the most important point of reference that is used to make distinctions in various events. So, if your network is not synchronized and you send a mail, it may be received by the other computer prior to the time when it was sent.
Surprising! Isn’t it? It would amount to the fact that your e-mail would be shown as not received because computers are not programmed to deal with negative values of time.
Similar is the case with data. If your computer saves data that has come from an unsynchronized network, your computer may show that the data is saved previously. A great danger in this respect is that your computer may also overwrite the data that already exists in it.
Also, do not forget that hackers and crackers all round the world are active and take immense pleasure in such activities. So, if you care about the privacy of your business and want that any kind of hacking act be caught at the very spot, you have to synchronize your network with respect to time.
Inherent chaos and unpredictability in an unsynchronized network makes it impossible to detect any hacking because the log files that are used to trace the history of an event are themselves time sensitive. If you aren’t sure about the time-factor of the log files, how can you prove such an act?
How would you then sue such a hacker in court even if you have come to know about his misdeed? Courts also accept evidences from such networks or servers that are time-synchronized. This is especially true in case of NTP servers.
Author - DeeKay
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