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When monitoring for both intrusion and security events between multiple computers, it is essential that the computers' clocks are synchronized. Synchronized time allows an administrator to…
The correct answer is C. Network Time Protocol. NTP (Network Time Protocol) is the long-established, widely deployed standard protocol for synchronizing clocks across networked devices, typically to within milliseconds of UTC. In security and forensics contexts, synchronized timestamps are critical for correlating log…
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When monitoring for both intrusion and security events between multiple computers, it is essential that the computers' clocks are synchronized. Synchronized time allows an administrator to reconstruct what took place during an attack against multiple computers. Without synchronized time, it is very difficult to determine exactly when specific events took place, and how events interlace. What is the name of the service used to synchronize time among multiple computers?
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- ATime-Sync Protocol
- BSyncTime Service
- CNetwork Time Protocol
- DUniversal Time Set
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(30 responses)- A3% (1)
- B7% (2)
- C90% (27)
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NTP (Network Time Protocol) is the long-established, widely deployed standard protocol for synchronizing clocks across networked devices, typically to within milliseconds of UTC. In security and forensics contexts, synchronized timestamps are critical for correlating log entries across multiple systems during incident reconstruction. The other answer choices - Time-Sync Protocol, SyncTime Service, and Universal Time Set - are fictitious names and do not correspond to real protocols.
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