A security analyst is experiencing difficulties aligning timestamps while investigating an ongoing breach. The discrepancy is leading to challenges in establishing a coherent sequence of events. What implementation would most effectively resolve these timestamp inconsistencies for future incidents?
Mandate the installation of additional security information and event management software.
Initiating a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server across the organization ensures time consistency on every system and device, which is vital for correlating logs during investigations. Without synchronized time settings, incident analysis might be flawed due to misaligned events leading to inaccurate conclusions. While increasing logging levels and establishing backup protocols are also pertinent procedures, they do not directly correct issues with timestamp alignment. Establishing new communication protocols is important for team coordination but does not address the problem of time discrepancies.
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