Second is a vendor neutrality that can deftly neutralize any reluctant (or recalcitrant) healthcare IT vendor, and third is a rich history of domain expertise specifically around industrial-strength network security, identity management and authentication (at scale).

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Rather than having your entire chip be in the same security domain, he says, the most critical things like the management of cryptographic keys or the management of network connections or DRM systems can be isolated in separate transistors on the same chip.

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