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C#, .NET Software Developer - Cambridge, C#, .NET	23 November 2007
C#, .NET Developer - Cambridge C#, .NET Job Title: .NET Developer, C# Developer, Software Developer, Software Engineer Based: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambs, East Anglia Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 Benefits: Relocation Package, Pension Contribution, Group Life Cover, Private Medical Insurance, Free Food and Beverages, Gym Membership, 25 Days Holiday, Childcare Scheme, Career Progression. Training and development is seen as crucial to the growth of individuals, their teams and the company. Essential Skills Degree in Scientific or related discipline. Significant experience of developing Windows Desktop applications using .NET and/or C#. Knowledge of the .NET framework, Win32 API and developing for Microsoft platforms. Knowledge of OOD Object Oriented Design. Experience implementing database applications, preferably Microsoft SQL Server and Access. Good verbal and written skills. Team player. Buzzwords: .NET, C#, Developer, C++ Software Developer, C# Software Developer, COM, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Win32 API, VB.Net, .Net Framework, .Net 2, XML, Object Oriented Design, Object Oriented Programming, OOD, OOP, UML Company Established in 1990 Software house developing powerful analytical solutions worldwide 200+ staff in the UK with partners in 13 other countries, inc. the US, Netherlands, Italy and Germany Awards include: Fast50, European Fast500, Indy 100 About Idealpeople Idealpeople exists to align industry specialists with client expectations. We're recruitment experts in the IT, Communications, e-Business and New Media sectors in the UK and internationally Contact Karl Scrivener 01908 562585 karl.scrivener@Idealpeople.net Idealpeople are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Find Top Tips for Job Hunters and Hirers at the [a href="www.idealpeopleblog.com"]Idealpeople blog[/a] Take a look at all of Idealpeople's vacancies at [a href="www.idealpeople.net"]www.idealpeople.net[/a]
Product Manager Product Marketing Manager Cambridg	14 November 2007
Product Manager Product Marketing Manager Cambridge Job Title: Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager Based: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambs, East Anglia Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 Benefits: Relocation Package, 7% Pension Contribution, Group Life Cover, Private Medical Insurance, Free Food and Beverages, Gym Membership, 25 Days Holiday, Childcare Scheme, Career Progression. Training and development is seen as crucial to the growth of individuals, their teams and the company. Company · Established in 1990 · Software house developing powerful analytical solutions worldwide · 200+ staff in the UK with partners in 13 other countries, inc. the US, Netherlands, Italy and Germany · Awards include: Fast50, European Fast500, Indy 100 Role · Formulate and maintain the product plan for each assigned product, covering tactical and strategic goals and timescales, and communicate it to all stakeholders. · Develop and own business plans and market requirement specifications coordinating and taking contributions from Regional Product Marketing and other sources throughout the organisation. · Prepare product pricing proposals and gain their approval in each affected sales territory via Heads of Regional Product Marketing for inclusion in the business plans. · Establish and develop the "virtual product team" relationships with Regional Product Marketing Managers, the Regional Product Marketing Heads and with peer Product Managers · Prepare monthly status report of product performance and any development or other issues. · Monitor financial performance of products against business plans. · Travel will be required within the UK and overseas and at least quarterly visits to the USA to foster virtual team relationships. · Contribute to the improvement of business processes used by the Product Management department. Buzzwords Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Plans, Business Plans, Market Requireme
Carrier security outsourcing making connections	12 November 2007
Massive telecommunications carriers, including AT&T, BT, and Verizon, are promoting their ability to take over a significant portion of customers' IT security operations, and some enterprises are already buying into the model.Over the last several years, the sprawling carriers have acquired and introduced a range of technologies and services that promise to help protect customers from the growing wave of IT-based threats, including denial-of-service attacks and Web-borne malware programs.And while the carriers all concede that delivering safe telecommunications and Internet access to their customers' doorsteps is a fundamental requirement of their core business, the companies also maintain that they are uniquely positioned to become broader security outsourcing partners for their clients.Florida-based First Advantage is already outsourcing a significant portion of its IT security operations to its carrier partner, Verizon Business.The publicly held risk management services company had previously seen a payoff from outsourcing elements of its call center and software development operations, and the increasing complexity of its security and compliance concerns made it a natural to enlist Verizon to take over more of the work, executives said."Compared to the cost of internal operation, price was obviously a major consideration, but it was also the idea that these are specialists in security who we would be turning to," said Isabelle Theisen, chief security officer at First Advantage."They can provide a level of monitoring and correlation that would not have been possible for us to achieve internally," she said. "And we wanted to take a more leading-edge approach to matching potential threats to specific assets, something that alone would demand a full-time team for us otherwise."Theisen estimates that First Advantage, which specializes in employee background screening and insurance fraud investigation, has already ceded approximately 70 percent of its IT security operations to Verizon.Among the services it consumes from the carrier, which include everything from AV (anti-virus) and IPS (intrusion prevention systems) to Web applications firewalls and operation of compliance-mandated server farms, many came to Verizon via its July 2007 acquisition of CyberTrust.However, the seeds that have grown into the company's portfolio of security outsourcing skills were taking root years before the deal for the MSS (managed security services) company came to pass, Verizon Business officials said."We saw tremendous growth in demand for additional security services starting in 2005 and knew we needed to scale up; adding CyberTrust has helped us expand rapidly, and we're seeing even greater demand today, especially among multinational customers," said Cindy Bellefeuille, director of solution and product marketing at Verizon Business.Some industry watchers have said that customers will increasingly expect carriers to eliminate many security threats as part of their core connectivity services just as they require the companies to guarantee network performance speeds in their SLAs (service level agreements).However, Bellefeuille said that companies such as Verizon can meet those demands while creating new opportunities for additional services aimed at thwarting targeted threats or providing automation services, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance server operation the company oversees for First Advantage."There will always be opportunities from an attack perspective for us to take action and protect customers on the backbone, and we'll do that," she said. "We've also driven a lot of internal innovation in last three years for fighting issues such as targeted attacks; we're building out the honeynets and doing more correlation of data. Now we're in the phase of launching services as both stand-alones and value-adds."Verizon marketers foresee a future wherein the company could become a provider of end-to-end security outsourcing services.While a majority of the services it has offered thus far have centered on external issues such as helping its customers ward off DoS threats and malware, the company is already getting its hooks into more internal security operations, such as identity management, filtering data pulled in by IDSes (intrusion detection systems), and providing protection for various types of databases and software applications.BT beefs up its security offerings BT is another carrier that has turned heads in the security community in recent years with its acquisitions and stated business strategies.The company's security aspirations were perhaps illustrated best by its October 2006 acquisition of Counterpane, another MSS specialist.As with Verizon, officials with BT said that the carrier is preparing to launch a far broader set of security services than merely those that it added through the Counterpane buyout.Along with anti-DoS services -- and Counterpane's array of network monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and e-mail filtering skills -- BT officials contend that the company will soon be able to provide customers with security offerings such as antimalware filtering, embedded firewalls, UTM (unified threat management), and intrusion prevention.Enterprise customers will become particularly amenable to such carrier security services as they continue to upgrade to next-generation networking infrastructure, said Mick Creane, head of managed security strategy at BT.While the company has been providing anti-DoS services for years -- using technology sourced from vendor Arbor Networks, which targets its products directly at service providers -- there is a far broader opportunity for carriers to realize in security, he said."When everything has gone IP, we will be able to offer even more services and flexibility," he said. "Organizations are recognizing that the threats are changing so quickly that it's a huge challenge to keep pace, but that within the large carrier service providers, we have the necessary economies of scale and expertise to deal with this problem."Over time, Creane contends that by pulling together more managed security and carrier services, companies such as BT will be able to provide an integrated set of network defenses that customers won't be able to rival with their own internal systems defense technologies.In addition to those defensive opportunities, the carrier also plans to offer more proactive security services, such as filtering out inappropriate or unauthorized Web sites and blocking access to those URLs for its business customers."Customers are beginning to get it, and in the short term, we can use it as a business differentiator, but in the long term, I think they will begin to expect a certain amount of security expertise," Creane said. "BT and other carriers are in a very powerful position because by embedding security into the network at a higher level, we will be able to do security cheaper than CPU-based products and services."For now, most enterprises are just beginning to familiarize themselves with the carriers' expanding security services, but proponents maintain that the transition from companies doing more in-house to outsourcing more of their security responsibilities over to their existing bandwidth providers, will evolve quickly.For some customers, the carriers' security vision has clearly already been embraced with enthusiasm."I believe that they can help us correlate high-risk incidents and threats with information about our IT assets that will allow us to focus on the most high-priority items at any given time, from a security perspective," said First Advantage's CTO Theisen. "We can then move into adoption of a more risk-based system for our information assets. Right now it's all about just getting the necessary framework in place."
Software Programmer	12 November 2007
Software Programmer / Software Developer / Solutions Developer / C#.Net / VS.Net / Visual Studio.Net / VB.net Our client is the world's leading independent reinsurance and risk advisory companies. Their customers are in over 100 countries, through a network of over 40 offices and include most of the world's major insurance and reinsurance companies. They are looking to recruit an Software Programmer to work within their headquarters in London assisting in the development of bespoke in-house catastrophe model management products. 25 days holiday, excellent company pension, season ticket loan, bonus scheme, private medical health care, free yoga classes, free language classes, subsidised gym membership and free head and shoulder massage available twice a week. We view this as an excellent opportunity to join the worlds leading Reinsurance Company and be a part of their success. Your responsibilities will include assisting in developing my clients catastrophe platform, supporting and maintaining this product in the form of bug fixes and enhancements, product testing [unit and occasional system level testing] ad-hoc data conversion projects as and when the team requires, supporting and maintaining any internal software products and maintenance / enhancement of all existing in-house Cat Models Skills: Full life cycle software development VS.Net C# or VB.Net Software Programmer / Software Developer / Solutions Developer / C#.Net / VS.Net / Visual Studio.Net / VB.net
House Approves Creation of a Federal Disaster Insurance Program	09 November 2007
The House of Representatives approved legislation yesterday that would put the federal government into the home insurance business to deal with natural disasters like hurricanes and the recent wildfires in ...
House OKs bill that would create federal disaster insurance recovery program	01 January 0001
Florida homeowners are one step closer to obtaining available and affordable homeowner’s insurance and ending the ongoing crisis that has plagued the state. The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday night on a 258-155 vote that aims to stabilize the catastrophe insurance market by expanding private industries’ capacity to cover a natural disaster and help states manage risk.
House Passes Revised Children's Health Bill, but Timing Irks GOP	26 October 2007
After hours of partisan warfare and delay, the House easily approved a new version of legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program yesterday, but the vote failed to get any more Republicans to override another promised veto from President Bush.
Congress passes new child health care bill, setting up another veto fight with Bush	01 January 0001
A defiant Democratic-controlled Congress voted Thursday to provide health insurance to an additional 4 million lower-income children, and President Bush vowed swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue. The legislation cleared the Senate on a vote of 64-30. It passed the House last week, but supporters were shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush’s threatened veto.
House Passes Revised Children's Health Bill, but Timing Irks GOP	26 October 2007
After hours of partisan warfare and delay, the House easily approved a new version of legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program yesterday, but the vote failed to get any more Republicans to override another promised veto from President Bush.
House Democrats Set For Vote on New Version Of Children's Health Bill	25 October 2007
Just one week after failing to override President Bush's veto, House Democrats will put a new version of their $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program to a vote today, hoping that minor changes will win enough Republicans to beat Bush this round.