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Many people don't realize it, but security is where Diebold started 148 years ago. Obviously, we've come a long way from when the primary business was building bank vaults. Today, security is a $775 million business for us that generates nearly 30 percent of our total revenue.
Our focus now is on delivering integrated solutions for customers - technology-driven systems for the range of security issues: barriers to entry, alarms, event monitoring, surveillance, access control, fire detection, identity protection and credential management are a few examples.
Given our longstanding relationships with financial customers, most of our security revenue is from the financial sector. We're increasing our penetration in the government, commercial and retail markets as well as globalizing our security business. To support these efforts, we're leveraging our monitoring capabilities across all markets. Today we handle approximately 50,000 alarms per month and provide more than 31,000 sites with around-the-clock monitoring services. We look to grow in regions where we already have a strong brand and presence, and see good opportunities in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Canada, as well as the United States.
The skill and know-how regarding systems design, project management, software integration and complete service offerings are more important than ever as the physical and logical security world converge. These are areas we are investing in, and our goal is to leverage our competitive advantages and build long-term, sustainable partnerships with customers as we continue to drive growth in this business segment.
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