Security News > 2022 > November > Top 5 confidential computing uses in healthcare

Confidential computing aims to protect data while it's in transit, in use and at rest, combating attackers who use memory scraping to infiltrate data in use.

Confidential computing has several applications within the healthcare field.

In general, confidential computing is a new way of thinking about protecting data.

We'll have more to say about AI later, but confidential computing is also being applied to get ahead of attacks on IoT medical devices and cloud data.

Confidential computing services are well aware of the many industry regulations around customer data.

"The opportunity for AI to enable the delivery of better healthcare outcomes continues to expand exponentially, but developers are limited by access to critical datasets to train and to deploy their algorithms," said John Doyle, global chief technology officer at Microsoft, in a press release from BeeKeeperAI. "We are pleased to partner with BeeKeeperAI to help the healthcare industry develop the understanding and expertise it needs to leverage confidential computing within healthcare innovation."

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