RE: [fw-wiz] Acqusition of time

From: Noonan, Wesley (Wesley_Noonan@bmc.com)
Date: 01/29/03 

From: "Noonan, Wesley" <Wesley_Noonan@bmc.com>
To: "'Brian Monkman'" <bmonkman@comcast.net>, firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Wed Jan 29 10:28:01 2003

Yes. Logging. I would suspect that any decent lawyer could tear apart logs
that had inconsistent time hashes in court.

Wes Noonan, MCSE/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS/Security+
Senior QA Rep.
BMC Software, Inc.
(713) 918-2412
wnoonan@bmc.com
http://www.bmc.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Monkman [mailto:bmonkman@comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 08:56
> To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
> Subject: [fw-wiz] Acqusition of time
>
> Folks - I'm having a discussion with a few people and we have a
> question that we are interested in getting comments from the list on.
>
> Are there any situations where a firewall's acqusition of time
> could/should be from a network time source? Not necessarily a public
> source, it could be an "internal" time source.
>
> If there are situations where this makes sense, should these same
> firewalls have battery backed up clocks on board or would that be
> unnecessary?
>
> Brian
>
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