Abby Kearns

Most supplier collaboration tools work. Until they hit real scale. Portals, viewers, and review platforms reduce friction. But they still assume collaboration happens after the model has been exported. As supplier networks grow — especially across multi-tier global programs common in aerospace and defense — coordination layers multiply. More checkpoints. More oversight. More manual alignment. That’s not collaboration maturing. That’s complexity leaking out of the system of record. #Manufacturing #PLM #SupplierCollaboration #DigitalThread

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The more autonomous AI becomes, the more binaries it will create. The more binaries created, the more security is required at the gate, and the more governance is needed before deployment to production. 🐸 https://bit.ly/4seEMPq #JFrog #LiquidSw

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Have you heard of the llm-d project? It improves LLM performance and drives down costs of inference serving on Kubernetes. It's based around a few key projects including vLLM and kgateway. If you want a deep dive into how it works with a detailed step-by-step "packet flow" through llmd, take a look at this blog I wrote recently. 👉 https://lnkd.in/g2mbEh3m

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"Data brokers pose unique risks to Californians through the industrial-scale collection and sale of our personal information… We must do everything we can to reduce these risks..."

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Thrilled to announce Crosspoint Capital Partners' investment in WideField Security! As part of the Crosspoint team, it’s always a special moment when we meet 10x founders tackling one of the most strategic markets in cybersecurity: Identity Security. Before ITDR emerged, PAM was the closest identity-adjacent segment with real cyber impact — IAM and IGA, by contrast, have always been more about access hygiene than security. But if the last few years have taught us anything from breaches like UnitedHealth and MGM, it’s that identity has become the preferred initial attack vector. After all — why break in when you can just log in? The WideField Security team is building an identity security platform that spans on-prem (AD), SaaS (Okta, Entra), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure) — unifying posture (context) and detection (SecOps alerts) into a single, coherent layer (here comes the identity graph). That’s not a feature — it’s the foundation of a platform play. It takes 10x founders to go after such an ambitious vision. Abhay Kulkarni and the Widefield team are exactly that, and I couldn’t be more excited to see our firm partner with them on this journey. Onward and forward! 🚀 #itdr #identity #identitysecuritu #secops https://lnkd.in/gEyR6mG7

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FedRamp compliance in 90 days - what's not to love about that !?! Very happy to be working with Irina Denisenko and the team as they bring AI-powered FedRamp authorisation to all, rapidly and at a fraction of the cost. If you want to sell software into the US Govt, then go to Knox Systems, Inc. right now ☺️

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We're excited to announce the launch of a new benchmarking suite for homomorphic encryption, available at fhe-benchmarking.org (https://lnkd.in/g8JgDVzr) and is ready to receive submissions. Built for people who use FHE (not just those who build it), the suite gives you standardized workloads and real performance numbers — latency, throughput, memory, communication overhead, accuracy loss — to help answering: is FHE feasible for my application, and which implementation is best for my setup? Current workloads include: • Fetch-by-Similarity — private database queries using cosine similarity search over encrypted data; • ML Inference — privacy-preserving machine learning inference on encrypted inputs, currently featuring MNIST digit classification, with more models to come; • Zn Multiplication — multiplication of two encrypted 64-bit integers, with other bit sizes planned; Additional workloads are under active development. The suite is organized around open repositories at github/fhe-benchmarking (https://lnkd.in/gfq6szFM), and submissions are open now. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/g8JgDVzr or contact us at fhe-benchmarking@homomorphicencryption.org. Andreea Alexandru, Flavio Bergamaschi, Shruthi Gorantala, and Shai Halevi

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We're excited to introduce our latest investment, Oryo.io - the security layer for agentic AI. Prashanth R. and Swaroop S., veterans of Okta and Wiz, are building agentic visibility and a trust layer on the MCP protocol for enterprise autonomous agents. Like Waymo’s cars today, agentic AI across enterprises will soon ingest data, make decisions, and take action. As adoption rises, the problem shifts from capability to control. CISOs manage identity and access for humans today. Okta anchors that trust layer for non-humans tomorrow. After our Agentic AI conference in Feb 2025 led by Anand Rao, we came with prepared minds to our first call with Oryo. Michael Marmor led diligence and is working closely with the founders as they build their MVP. We wrote the first check into Oryo. Village Global (Reid Hoffman) and Seven Hill Ventures (Michael Coates) followed soon after. Perhaps Nikesh Arora should take notice :) Venkat Raju, JB Michel, Rahul Harikumar, Quentin Staes-Polet Josh Cunningham

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