# 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.

## Speaking At

- [RBLN East 2026 - Washington DC](https://www.rbln.com/events/2026/east)

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