Paul Smith
Atmosera
About
Paul Smith is a Principal Security Consultant at Atmosera specializing in identity, access management, and cloud security solutions. Paul helps organizations design and implement secure, scalable architectures across multi-cloud platforms, with a focus on identity & access modernization, governance, and security posture improvement.
Sessions
Owning the Runtime: What Self-Hosting LLMs Taught Me About AI Security
What you will learn:
This session explores alternatives to consuming hosted flagship LLMs and the security considerations that emerge when moving AI runtimes from SaaS to self-hosted infrastructure. Topics include open-source inference software, tooling, and multi-GPU deployments; local model and workload considerations; hardware and operational requirements; attack surfaces runtime, agents, telemetry, and model provenance; and the tradeoffs between control, cost, performance, and enterprise governance.