Informative article worth revisiting covering Network Time Protocol best practices. Scroll down for details on using Public NTP for external hosts and configuring your own Internal NTP hierarchical service for your network: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2017/04/best-practices-for-ntp-services.html
2018 – A Year Of Growth & Development
2018 was a year of growth and development at the Network Time Foundation. A tremendous amount of work was accomplished and, importantly, the foundations of what will be an incredible 2019 have been put down. Important Technical Achievements over the past twelve months included: Two security releases – 4.2.8p11 and 4.2.8p12 (Details available on the… Read More
Running Own NTP Servers
Informative article on the importance to security of running NTP servers: https://blog.webernetz.net/why-should-i-run-own-ntp-servers/ “If you want to operate a secure environment you should use your own on-site stratum 1 NTP servers along with authentication. This is the only way to eliminate time spoofing attacks from the outside. Don’t reduce your overall security to a stateless and unauthenticated… Read More
Exciting News! Time Server App Is Live!
Check out the latest announcement from PublicNTP. The new Time Server App has launched. https://publicntp.org/blog/posts/bring-time-to-the-world.html Time Server App: https://timeserver.app/
The Importance Of Time To Networks & Databases
Very interesting recent brief case study on the deep value of precision time and synchronization to computer networks and, in particular, databases. “Clocks are important – don’t lock down you VPC so much that NTP stops working.” https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
Is The Future Of All Software Development Open-Source?
Is a piece from 2016 titled: “Why Microsoft Is Turning Into An Open-Source Company” prescient? https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-is-turning-into-an-open-source-company/ From the article: As Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation‘s executive director, has said, open source “shared development is enabling faster development with higher quality and lower costs. This is causing the software value chain to change.” Microsoft gets this. And, it’s… Read More
Congress Passes The National Timing Security and Resilience Act of 2018
The following is from a recent Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation update: “This month saw a significant milestone for us with Congress’ passage of the National Timing Security and Resilience Act of 2018 as a part of the regular US Coast Guard authorization bill. The act requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a difficult… Read More
Redefining The Second
Fascinating article in Science (@sciencemagazine) earlier this year showcasing the great work at NIST and other organizations focused on continually improving time accuracy on the threshold of the 2020s. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/better-atomic-clocks-scientists-prepare-redefine-second
BootstrapCDN donates to NTF via OpenCollective
This is a guest post by the maintainers of BootstrapCDN Open Source projects that make up the core infrastructure keeping the internet operating are often taken for granted. Though these projects are not the most exciting projects at first glance, they become the center of attention when there’s a security breach or other disruptive event.… Read More
Secure Time Seeding – improving time keeping in Windows
Excellent time to revisit an informative article written by Sarath Madakasira @Microsoft covering time synchronization solutions on Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/w32time/2016/09/28/secure-time-seeding-improving-time-keeping-in-windows/