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@Walmart disrupting the healthcare market and its #cybersecurity implications - #Thread 1/7

That's big news, as Walmart has the power to change this market completely

@lauralovett7 describes it accurately as a shake up in this article on @MobiHealthNews

mobihealthnews.com/news/how-retai…

With over 200M weekly customers and over 4000 stores in medically unserved communities (MUC), this retail giant’s power is enormous.

In fact it’s nothing new, as @amazon is already taking part in the healthcare market via @PillPack, their medicine delivery services. 2/7

The distribution of medical services for this market leader in the coming years will most likely involve cutting edge tech, including AI models and machine learning to allow a full transformation of required data. 3/7

Walmart’s size and reach would improve AI models because of the sheer size of their big data, reducing cost and improving patient treatment. This big data would be a crown jewel for hackers, especially as it is used for AI and data driven applications. 4/7

The vulnerabilities of such operations are obvious, with ransomware activity by threat actors all around us and making headlines. And it will be a shame if patients' data in MUCs will be exposed or breached. 5/7

That’s why large organizations should take precautions. Recent research predicts hyper-growth for #confidentialcomputing solutions: #Hardware, #software and #XaaS. These #holistic #infosecurity models allow keeping data safe at all times, whether at-rest, in-motion or in-use 6/7

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