One-hundred sixty-three years ago, Siemens was founded in Berlin by Werner von Siemens, an inventor and businessman, around the design and sales of the pointer telegraph. Today, Siemens AG operates in 190 countries and employs more than 400,000 people. Its offerings are diverse, covering solutions for energy, automation, healthcare, transportation and industry needs, among many others. Fortune ranked Siemens 40th among global corporations in 2010.
Considering this firm’s longevity, security is a relatively new industry to Siemens, having come into existence in 2001. But there is a strong thread of continuity in Siemens’ business history that has prevailed throughout centuries and is still present today. For example, in the 19th Century Siemens was known around the world for its “successful handling of technically complex, extremely high-risk projects, such as laying major trans-Atlantic cables,” according to Siemens’ historical account. Fast-forward to the 21st Century and that capability for successful handling technically complex projects is apparent today in security too, whether it’s seen in implementing a smart card system for single sign-on of physical and logical access throughout a healthcare system or in the deployment of thousands of IP cameras at hundreds of locations on a major citywide network infrastructure.
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