Until recently, Robin Bennett, MIAP was IT Manager at Midlands Electricity plc. About six months ago he launched a Web site called jobsworth.co.uk. No, it doesn’t explain why you can’t possibly do whatever it is you’re trying to. Let him explain…
We are a salary information service, no more and no less. Our business is to enable employees and contractors to check their pay against the “going rate” for their job in their area. We provide this basic information free on condition that the visitor tells us what they do and what they earn. In this respect, our slogan “You show us yours, and we’ll show you ours!” says it all!
We have been collecting job salary information since 1997. Each week, job data is collected from newspapers, the Internet, and from submissions made on our site. The data is categorised and stored within our database. Now containing over 1 million records, we believe that it the UK’s biggest salary information database (just compare us to companies basing their information on salary surveys of possibly only a few hundred respondents). It is also the most detailed – our “location” data is based on county, for example, rather than region.
Our statistics are weighted using a unique algorithm whereby “real” jobs count for more than advertised jobs and recent jobs count for more than older jobs. A professional academic statistician has verified the statistics.
Contact Robin at robin@jobsworth.co.uk.
Frankie Blaskovic, AMIAP is Group Managing Director of Intensiti Technologies Plc. Here, he describes his company’s current activities.
We’re about to launch an exciting and revolutionary portfolio of digital security solutions, having developed strong encryption, digital certification technologies and new and enhanced Internet protocols.
For example, we can provide secured DNS in the form of iSNST (Intensiti Secure Name Services), which prevents domain name theft and squatting. We have strong encryption tools starting at 512 bit, Anti-Denial of Service measured within product/protocols, Smart Card solutions, and a global alternative to PKI named NGKIT (Intensiti Next Generation Key Infrastructure). Morphing keys and hacker intrusion detection measures form part of the iGSNT (Intensiti Global Security Network).
The iGSN is the first of its kind. It’s a global scope network providing security services to applications regardless of size and scope. The iGSN encompasses the security infrastructure comprising certification authorities, iSNS name servers, NGKI global services, and RTA/RTR (Real time revocation/authentication) used to revoke and issue certificates in real time, and transparently, to end users. This is the first ever CA with the ability ‘instantly’ and seamlessly to revoke and reissue compromised certificates on-the-fly by its patent pending process.
Intensiti software installs wrap existing infrastructures, so no changes to them are required, hence preserving companies’ E-commerce investment and minimising the need for consultancy. Intensiti’s solutions do not fall within the US legal remits on encryption export and hence no backdoor, secret keys or weakened security is to be found within its offerings.
Contact Frankie at frankie@intensiti.com.
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