and technology consulting founded 1971 headquarters guildford surrey uk key people kevin taylor managing director products netreveal streamshield dataretain secureserve cyberreveal number of employees around 4500 parent bae systems website official website bae systems applied intelligence formerly detica is an international business and technology consulting firm owned by bae systems . it specializes in security and resilience 1 and in collecting managing and exploiting information to reveal so called actionable intelligence threat intelligence fraud containment and customer insight . it also sells clients software for large scale data exploitation and analytics for intelligence grade security and financial crime work . contents 1 history 2 2 operations 3 offices 4 references 5 external links history 2 edit the business was founded in 1971 as smith associates carrying out research on defence matters for the uk government . it was incorporated in 1977 and renamed detica in 2001 . it was first listed on the london stock exchange in 2002 . in 2003 detica acquired rubus an information technology services company . it went on to launch streamshield an internet security software product in 2004 . in 2005 detica acquired extraprise uk a systems integrator . 3 in 2006 it bought the consultancy evolution 4 the computer forensics business inforenz and a financial service consultancy m.a. partners . in 2007 it acquired the us homeland security consultancy dfi international . 5 in july 2008 prospects of a bidding war for detica emerged after bae systems made an informal offer . 6 on 28 july 2008 the board of detica and bae systems announced that the latter had made a formal cash offer of 9.40 for all issued and to be issued share capital . after acquiring over 92 % of outstanding shares with shareholder approval bae declared its offer for detica unconditional on 25 september 2008 . 7 in 2010 bae systems acquired stratsec the largest cyber security consultancy in australia . 8 in 2011 bae systems acquired the irish norkom technologies a financial crime and financial compliance software maker 9 and the danish cyber and intelligence company eti as which previously helped law enforcement and telecommunication providers in data crime investigations . 10 in 2013 it won an 8 year uk government service contract for the foreign and commonwealth office and partnered with vodafone for smartphone and tablet security services . on 1 february 2014 bae systems detica was renamed bae systems applied intelligence to reflect its ambitions for more global growth across its applied intelligence portfolio . 11 in october 2014 kevin taylor was appointed as managing director following martin sutherland s departure to de la rue . 12 in december 2014 bae systems applied intelligence acquired perimeter internetworking corp. trading as silversky a leading commercial cyber services provider offering a suite of leading cloud based security and compliance solutions that enable large and medium sized businesses to protect and manage their most sensitive data . 13 operations edit the company claims four particular areas of expertise cyber security ; detection and prevention of financial crime ; communications intelligence ; and digital transformation . 14 the company operates in the following five main industrial sectors national security and law enforcement ; financial institutions banking and insurance ; telecommunications ; civil government including healthcare ; transport energy and utilities . 15 bae systems applied intelligence s products include netreveal a software package to combat fraud intended for government departments the finance sector and commercial organizations ; 16 cyberreveal the multi threat monitoring analytics investigation and response solution ; 17 dataretain a software product enabling communications service providers csps to comply with data retention regulations ; 18 streamshield software aimed at internet content security ; 19 and secureserve allowing encrypted filtered and secure data sharing . 20 offices edit the company head office is in guildford in the united kingdom with branch offices in 19 countries across europe north america australia southeast asia and south africa . citation needed references edit what is security and resilience . us department of homeland security . n.d. retrieved 2014 02 14 . applied intelligence who we are our history . baesystems . n.d. retrieved 2014 02 14 . detica acquires crm specialist . conferencepage.com . 2005 04 11 . retrieved 2013 08 30 . detica buys evolution consulting . conferencepage.com . 2005 12 05 . retrieved 2013 08 30 . detica is a star performer . findarticles.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . uk bae offer for detica could spark bid war . ft.com . 2008 07 18 . retrieved 2013 08 30 . bae systems declares detica offer wholly unconditional . afx news . forbes.com . 25 september 2008 . archived from the original on 2011 06 04 . retrieved 2008 10 02 . stratsec . retrieved 2014 02 15 . norkom . deticanetreveal.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . eti acquisition . deticanetreveal.com . 2011 03 21 . retrieved 2013 08 30 . error page . bae systems appoints kevin taylor as managing director of applied intelligence . bae systems . 2014 10 08 . retrieved 2014 11 08 . bae systems applied intelligence history . baesystems . n.d. who we are at a glance applied intelligence . bae systems . n.d. retrieved 2014 03 10 . industry . bae systems . n.d. retrieved 2014 02 14 . netreveal . deticanetreveal.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . home bae systems cyber security & intelligence . dataretain . baesystemsdetica.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . streamshield . streamshield . retrieved 2013 08 30 . secureserve . baesystemsdetica.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . external links edit official website v t e bae systems plc subsidiaries and divisions bae systems australia bae systems india bae systems saudi arabia intelligence & security maritime services maritime naval ships maritime submarines military air & information regional aircraft support solutions bae systems inc. electronics intelligence & support land & armaments southeast shipyards joint ventures fnss savunma sistemleri a. . 49 % air astana 49 % eurofighter gmbh 33 % mbda 37.5 % cta international 50 % category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title detica & oldid 738087527 categories military intelligenceinternational management consulting firmsmanagement consulting firms of the united statesinternational information technology consulting firmscompanies based in guildfordcompanies established in 1971bae systems subsidiaries and divisionscontent control softwarehidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 september 2016 at 20 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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