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Assets, Fair Value Disclosure, Gain on Final Earn-Out Consideration Received

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Disposal Group Including Discontinued Operation, Percentage Of Consideration In Contingent Nature

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Fair Value Inputs, Period of Contingent Consideration Receivable

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Period Of Performance Of Business And Retention Of Current Customers

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Period to Calculate and Remit Remaining Consideration

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Fair value portion of probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of gain (loss) recognized on the income statement for financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Fair Value Measurement - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended			11 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Sep. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Recurring basis \| Level 3
Fair Value Measurement
Amount of final earn-out consideration received	$ 0.6
Gain on final earn-out consideration received	$ 0.1
Assets measured at fair value		$ 0.5		$ 0.0	$ 0.0	$ 0.5
Contingent consideration receivable
Fair Value Measurement
Consideration in contingent nature (as a percent)							40.00%
Period to calculate and remit remaining consideration							60 days
Contingent consideration receivable \| Level 3
Fair Value Measurement
Period of contingent consideration receivable							18 months
Contingent consideration receivable \| Recurring basis \| Level 3
Fair Value Measurement
Assets measured at fair value		$ 0.5				0.5
Security Business \| Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale
Fair Value Measurement
Period to calculate and remit remaining consideration				60 days
Period of cash consideration to be received		18 months	18 months
Contingent acquisition consideration \| Level 3
Fair Value Measurement
Change in fair value					$ 0.0	$ 0.0	$ 0.2