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Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Information-security company Detica also claimed that terrorists and criminals were increasingly employing technology, and were attempting to exploit the growing information infrastructure to hide their activities. [04 Jul 2008]
FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring
News The project to upgrade Sabre started more than two years ago and the FSA has been helped by technology consultancy Detica, using technology from SAS and Progress Software. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is significantly upgrading the... [20 Jun 2007]
£400m 'biometric borders' bidders revealed
News The Trusted Borders team is led by Raytheon and contains Accenture, Capgemini, Detica, Qinetiq, Serco and Steria. BT and Raytheon will fight it out for the government's £400m e-Borders contract to build a system that will automatically assess the... [06 Nov 2006]
Ministry of Defence gives 150 apps their marching orders
News The MoD identified more than 1,000 applications that it would need to move over to the new integrated infrastructure, and IT consultancy Detica was brought in to identifying savings that could be made as part of the migration. [08 Feb 2006]
Chip and PIN doesn't mean the end of the war on card fraud
News David Porter, head of security for security and risk at consultancy Detica added: "For the foreseeable future cards will have the magnetic strip. A Friday night drinking session had certainly not cost £500, Richard Wolfe thought when he opened his... [07 Feb 2006]
Drivers back road-charging black box plans
News Grant Klein, head of transport at IT consultancy Detica, which commissioned the research, said in a statement: "These findings suggest there is significant support for the idea of road user charging as long as it is targeted at the real problem... [15 Jun 2005]
ID card plans are back and 'more popular'
News David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica, told silicon.com the problem of electoral fraud is one issue which "throws the spotlight back onto ID cards" - most notably the problem of people voting in person with no required proof of identity. [25 May 2005]
UK voters fear election fraud
News David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica, who commissioned the research, said the recent rigged and re-run ballot in the Ukraine and consecutive controversial US presidential elections will have played a part in knocking voter confidence... [30 Mar 2005]
Identity theft affecting one in four UK adults
News While the more tech-savvy individual that can spot a phishing email a mile off may think themselves safe from the fraudsters, David Porter, head of security and risk at consultants Detica, warned people are opening themselves up to attacks by... [03 Mar 2005]
Britons just not ready for chip and PIN
News More than half of cardholders (60 per cent) have little or no knowledge of chip and PIN, and 56 per cent are concerned the technology will increase the risk of their PIN being stolen, according to new research commissioned by IT consulting firm... [11 Aug 2004]
ID cards: no data security fears - and no chance we'll pay for them
News A Mori poll commissioned by IT consultancy Detica has, like silicon.com's own reader survey into ID cards, revealed that public opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of adopting them. And it's on just such issues that the project will succeed or fail... [22 Apr 2004]
'Gold rush fever': Are you ready for the next boom?
News In the past, investors and businesses have been too distracted by short-term gains and market fluctuations, according to Tom Black, CEO of Detica. Detica's Black summed up that latter point very neatly. [02 Mar 2004]
Give me some skin: Biometrics get thumbs up
News David Porter, head of security and risk at security consultancy Detica, said the main battle biometrics has to win is in the area of privacy and data protection. Increasing numbers of Britons are familiar with the use of biometrics and by a margin... [06 Jan 2004]
Insider threat still leaving companies exposed
News The third annual 'Information Security in the UK 2003' survey by consultancy Detica quizzed 140 FTSE 500 companies and major public sector organisations. David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica, told silicon.com that although internal and... [11 Jul 2003]
Detica follows landmark IPO with continued profits
News IT services company Detica is promising to continue its 25-year run in the black despite current conditions in the industry. Detica, formerly known as the Smith Group became the first tech company in a year to float on the London Stock Exchange... [18 Jun 2002]
