All Blogs About Cybersecurity

Network experts already know that distributing the correct time is key to maintaining their critical infrastructure programs. However, keeping accurate time is also fundamental to many cybersecurity applications. Over the last few years, there has been significant research into ways that the NTP protocol can be secured from malicious attackers.

Cybersecurity is the watchword of the day, but what does it mean for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)? For many, the ability to hack or spoof a GPS/GNSS signal is a cybersecurity issue. At Orolia, we agree, which is why we have a wide array of products to augment, toughen and protect against GNSS vulnerabilities.

In today’s modern networking infrastructure, great care is taken to ensure that networks are reliable, highly available and most of all, secure. Cybersecurity has emerged as a critical area in all facets of the internet. It’s an area that companies spend millions on each year. Yet still, there are often-overlooked areas that degrade security. One example of this is time.

Network cybersecurity is top of mind these days for both government agencies and commercial enterprise. As the heart of network synchronization, time and frequency systems should include a standard suite of security features that give network administrators confidence in the cybersecurity protocols of their time servers.

Orolia had the privilege of participating in the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Technical Experimentation event at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, Indiana in late March. During this event, the Army scouted new technologies that provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in GPS-denied environments.

Cybersecurity is a popular topic in the news today, but Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) security does not get the same attention. But like cyberattacks, attacks against GPS or other global navigation satellite system (GNSS) systems can have profound and damaging effects on critical infrastructure, financial institutions, and military capabilities.