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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisExcited to welcome John Rote as an advisor to CloudFence! John Rote believes so strongly in what we're building at CloudFence that he's coming out of retirement to work with us. John Rote has seen cloud security from almost every angle, from leading Incident Response and Threat Intelligence to overseeing Global Security and Infrastructure Audits at large enterprises like MetLife. He immediately understood the gap we're solving because he's experienced it firsthand. Even at large organizations with mature security stacks, using tools like Wiz and Palo Alto Networks, he still struggled to get clear answers to critical questions: Where are our workloads and applications communicating? How do we know if a workload starts communicating somewhere it shouldn't? You can architect your cloud following all the best practices, but how do you know that what's actually happening in your environment matches what you designed and intended? To all the CISOs and anyone managing cloud infrastructure, I'd highly recommend spending some time talking with John Rote. He has a wealth of experience and insights to share. Welcome, John Rote! We're very lucky to have you !
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisWe're hiring at PropelAuth! If you're a Fullstack Engineer who wants to build auth systems that AI-native startups run on, apply today! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gNB6gdrn Note: This is a remote, US-only role.
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisAgree.com is a company I’ve admired for a while from afar. They’re going after a category owned by a legacy incumbent that nobody likes using and everyone feels stuck with. Their product is going viral and has rapidly become the default option for high-growth AI-native companies. Sounds familiar! So it’s only fitting that they decided to partner with Lightfield. Their head of sales Mona Darwish migrated all of the data from their previous CRM in under an hour. They now handle deal updates, follow-ups, and forecasting with our agent. As part of our work with their team, we’ve rolled out an MCP connector for Agree. Revenue and cashflow are critical to model as part of a business world model, but this context has historically been too difficult or cumbersome to pull into legacy CRM. With a one-click connection customers can now pull all of this directly into Lightfield. Super excited to keep building together with this team and supporting each others’ growth.
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisCome build with us at Range!!Jonathan Abrams reposted thisThe best problem we've had all year? We needed more space. Our teams across McLean, New York and Seattle keep growing, and we quickly outgrew our old office. So we moved into a new HQ in McLean, VA, with room for the team we have today and the one we're still hiring. If you want to help build the future of wealth management, visit our careers page. 👇 https://buff.ly/omQ9S21
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisThere are only 130 US tech companies, public or private, valued at $10B or more (decacorns). That’s roughly 20 to 30 new companies per decade, for the last five decades. This year alone, with a quarter to go, there have been 42 decacorns minted privately. Either this is the most economically transformative event since the industrial revolution, or we’re getting a wee bit ahead of ourselves.
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisWait wait wait... Impart actually built virtual patches in under 60 minutes, for the vuln "PHP2Shell" that was discovered today? So like... today, today? In under 60 minutes? Say hello to the power of the Impart Defense Loop.
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisAs our business continues to grow and mature upmarket, our product continues to mature and expand — and with that, our brand continuously matures and evolves. Agree™ is much more than e-signature and goes far beyond invoicing and payments. From closing the deal to closing the books, we deliver full end-to-end agentic revenue workflow automation from contract to cash ... to close. Agree is super intelligence for revenue.
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisThere are only 130 US tech companies, public or private, valued at $10B or more (decacorns). That’s roughly 20 to 30 new companies per decade, for the last five decades. This year alone, with a quarter to go, there have been 42 decacorns minted privately. Either this is the most economically transformative event since the industrial revolution, or we’re getting a wee bit ahead of ourselves.
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Jonathan Abrams reposted thisJonathan Abrams reposted thisIf an LLM can one-shot a VC’s “proprietary insight,” what exactly are LPs paying for? Not much. Fake moats look like loud claims, marketing buzz, and regurgitated insights. Real moats start with recognizing what your firm is unusually good at and compounding that advantage. “Know thyself” is not a new idea. Hard-earned proprietary knowledge gives VCs something worth scaling and AI gives them a way to do it. We’ve been doing this at Arkane since 2023. This year, we wrote our first checks to founders sourced by our agents. Now we’re building proprietary models, powered by NVIDIA. Our flywheel is simple: proprietary knowledge is used to fine-tune models; better models uncover new knowledge; and new knowledge then feeds the next round of training. That’s how we find the very best founders leveraging novel breakthroughs. Proprietary models will define the next generation of VCs. My thoughts on why VCs must build their own LLMs are in the first comment.
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Excited to see Bind AI launch today! Bind AI is the the AI workforce for insurance.
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisi hear so many investors describe how venture has changed and how they're adapting. I can tell in some of their faces that it's much less enjoyable, much less fun for them. Not because of competition, or whatever, but because it's a different job now than what many of them most loved 10-15 years ago.
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisEnterprise SSO in PropelAuth, start to finish, in 10 minutes. This walkthrough covers turning Enterprise SSO on for a project, enabling it for a specific organization, and setting up a connection with Okta, Entra ID, Google, or any SAML/OIDC provider. It also shows the setup link you can send a customer’s IT admin so they configure their own identity provider without a call. Login restrictions, just-in-time provisioning, role mapping, and SCIM are in there too, and like everything else in the video, they’re settings rather than code changes. Nothing new to write, nothing new to deploy.
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisQuick reminder that we are ✨hiring✨ a Fullstack engineer at PropelAuth. Apply today if you're interested in working on a small, fast-moving team powering auth for thousands of companies! https://lnkd.in/gJdZZmGm Note: this is US-only remote position.
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisLast week was such a crazy week for CVEs! And this week hasn't slowed down with CVE-2026-98432. This is the new normal and I expect it to get worse before it gets better. Impart is dedicated to getting patches out in minutes. Using tools like our agentic blue-team tied to your agentic red-team (or ours) is one of the best way to fight these vulnerabilities.
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisHear about AI at Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA). Then watch it work. Bind AI is at the MAIA Big Event, Oct 22–23 in Boston. Bring us your messiest workflow. Our Co-Founder & CEO Tony Marshi and Account Executive Brandon Wright💡will be at the booth to show you what happens when Bind AI handles it. 📍 Booth F · Trade show Friday, 9 AM–1 PM and 2:30–4 PM
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisBrooks’s Law says adding people to a late software project makes it later. Jan van den Berg asks whether it still holds with AI agents: https://lnkd.in/exZjthGN Broadway could have told him. You don’t open sooner by adding actors in tech week Rehearsal is sequential. Nine directors won’t get you there in a ninth of the time The director defines done. Without that, you just reach a bad first preview faster Nine choreographers will happily restage each other’s numbers all night Agents are the same show. Know what you’re opening before you add to the cast.The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI - Jan van den BergThe Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI - Jan van den Berg
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisHad a blast recording this podcast with the CEO of Apex Fintech Solutions our new partner, William Capuzzi. We talk about where the market is going with AI, where we think the premium is if AI can do everything, and lots more. Enjoy! Range https://lnkd.in/eiaTebrn
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisJonathan Abrams liked thisOn October 28 at ISC2 Security Congress, our CPO Alex Olivier and Vatsal Gupta, Staff Security Engineer at Apple, are presenting “Identity as the Control Plane for Software Supply Chain Security.” Software supply chain breaches are often attributed to code tampering, yet many originate from compromised identities, overprivileged service accounts, and weak access governance across CI/CD pipelines. This session reframes supply chain security as an identity governance challenge. It looks at how authorization decisions for human and machine identities operate across source control, build systems, artifact repositories, and deployment platforms, and how mismanaged access leads to lateral movement and privilege escalation. From there it covers identity-centric control patterns, including: ✔️ Segmentation of non-human identities ✔️ Least privilege enforcement in pipelines ✔️ Federated access governance ✔️ Continuous monitoring. It closes with a governance-aligned framework that integrates IAM, DevSecOps, and enterprise risk management to reduce blast radius and improve auditability without slowing engineering velocity. 📍 Crest 3/4, 10:45 to 11:45 AM MT https://lnkd.in/eNUEuFfm If you are attending, feel free to message Alex on LinkedIn to set up a time to talk in person. See you there 👋 #ISC2Congress
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Jonathan Abrams liked thisAnthropic recently described an AI agent that, during a cybersecurity evaluation, submitted malicious code to an unrelated GitHub repository and tried to convince the maintainers to merge it. When someone identified the code as malicious, the agent created another account to argue that it was safe. What I found particularly interesting was how difficult it became to get the agent to change course. In follow-up experiments, researchers explicitly told the agent that the maintainers were real people. It abandoned the attack in only about 5% of those continuations. One possible explanation involves how long-running agents manage memory. This agent repeatedly compressed its conversation history into shorter summaries. Those summaries preserved its progress and plans, including the decision to pursue the attack. Anthropic suspects this helped create a kind of momentum, where the agent’s previous decisions became increasingly difficult to reconsider. It’s a strange property of agent memory. We usually think of context compaction as a way to preserve useful information while freeing up space. But the agent is also deciding which parts of its history matter, and its summaries can carry forward mistaken assumptions about what it’s supposed to be doing. This has interesting implications for authorization. If an agent’s understanding of its task evolves through its own summaries, checking whether an individual tool call is permitted may tell you very little about whether the action still serves the user’s original intent. The experiment involved a model with production safeguards disabled, so the results shouldn’t be generalized to deployed agents. But I’d be interested in seeing the same experiment with task boundaries maintained independently of the agent’s memory, particularly across compaction and replanning. It seems like a useful distinction to test: preserving what an agent remembers versus preserving what it was actually authorized to do. https://lnkd.in/gS4vtCD3An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incidentAn alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident
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System, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks
Issued US 7,069,308
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