Highly accurate and reliable time has been an established component of the execution and monitoring of high frequency trading in the financial services industry for years, and the inexorable rise of e-commerce brought its own requirements from the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
PCI DSS 10.4 compliance explicitly demands critical systems have correct and consistent time, the time data is protected, and the time setting is received from industry-accepted time sources. Solutions from Phoenix Datacom have provided dual redundant GPS systems to organisations looking to meet or exceed these standards.
