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1. The business world is now more global than ever with as much likelihood of\u00a0 your customer\u2019s being from the other side of the planet as from around the corner. Any transactions conducted virtually across the Internet require adequate time synchronisation<\/a> otherwise your company can be open to abuse or fraud, customers may claim they paid you at a certain time but how do you ascertain if they have without adequate synchronisation?<\/p>\n

2. Does your system conduct time sensitive transactions? Computers have only one reference between events and that is time. If a network is not synchronised then many events and transactions may fail to happen. This can have a knock-on effect as one transaction or event fails so do others and without adequate synchronisation it may be quite a while before anyone realises the errors.<\/p>\n

3. Do you have valuable or sensitive data? A lack of synchronisation can often lead to data loss. Storage and retrieval is also time reliant so if a computer believes the time data should have been saved has past then it may assume the data is already saved. The problem can be exaggerated if the data is continually updated as the inaccurate timestamps may mean that certain updates are not completed.<\/p>\n

4. Is security important to your business? A lack of time synchronisation can leave a computer network open to malicious users, hackers and even fraud. If computers on a network are running different times then this can be exploited by malicious users and without time synchronisation you may not even know they have been there. A perfectly synchronised network will also offer legal protection with a NTP server<\/a> (Network Time Protocol<\/a>) being auditable and unquestioned in a court of law.<\/p>\n

5. Is the credibility of your company important? A lack of synchronisation can be extremely costly not just in time and money but also in the credibility of your company. Without synchronisation a network will be vulnerable to mistakes and while these may be easily rectified once a customer has to complain word will soon get out.<\/p>\n

Running a synchronised network adhering to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC<\/a>) the world\u2019s standard timescale is fairly simple. Dedicated NTP time servers<\/a> that receive a UTC time source from either a radio transmission or the GPS network (Global Positioning System).are readily available, simple to set up, accurate and secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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