Secure Clock Synchronization for Financial and Regulatory Compliance

TimeKeeper® is the leading enterprise-class clock sync platform solution for the financial trading industry. In partnership with FSMLabs, the experts in timing technology, TimeKeeper’s innovative solutions can reliably synchronize time-critical application servers and virtual machines in data centers and hybrid cloud environments around the world to within sub-µs accuracy. This provides traceability to official time sources such as UTC and NIST.

Secure Clock Synchronization for Data Center Applications

Time-sensitive data center applications must be accurately and reliably time-synced for data integrity, data governance, network latency monitoring, precise data timestamping, deterministic network performance, log file diagnostics, high-resolution data analytics, and cybersecurity forensics, and more.

• Distributed databases need clock synchronization to enable fast data synchronization methods.
• Software defined networking and network function virtualization (NFV) work better from a unified time base.
• Virtual machine performance and connectivity requires clock synchronization for monitoring and performance tuning.
• Modern data centers as well as both hybrid and pure cloud computing are difficult or impossible to run efficiently without precise time.

Secure Clock Synchronization for DoD Cyber Security

Time-sensitive cybersecurity applications, such as real-time cyberattack, with massive concurrent bots of cyber kill chain, cyberhunt, cybersensor, cyberthreat DPM (detection, prevention & mitigation), and cyber analytics, must be accurately and reliably time-synced and timestamped for data integrity and governance. Precise data logs timestamping, and real-time analytics of time-series and IP cyberattack geo-location and time-of-event data, including prescription and prediction, log file diagnostics, and precision cyber forensics, to name a few. Clock synchronization itself presents attack surfaces. TimeKeeper’s unique monitoring and security alerting capabilities provide a basis for secure cybertiming™ and the use of synchronized clocks in securing computing platforms.

Secure Clock Synchronization for 5G IoT Applications

Time-critical 5G IoT applications, such as driverless cars and industrial sensors, must be accurately and reliably time-synced for data integrity, data governance, network latency monitoring, precise data timestamping, deterministic network performance, log file diagnostics, high-resolution data analytics, and cybersecurity forensics, to name a few.

Accurate time sync of distributed applications is achieved when the network clock sync chain is traceable to UTC, the ultimate stratum 1 master clock reference, through a variety of time sources, such as GNSS, CDMA, and other sources.