The CEO Shift: Why Abby Kearns at ActiveState Signals a Turning Point for Enterprise Risk The Software Supply Chain Is Now a Boardroom Problem Abby Kearns has spent her career at the intersection of open source software and enterprise infrastructure. At Cloud Foundry Foundation, she watched the world's largest organizations bet their digital futures on open source. At Puppet, she saw firsthand how automation was the only viable path to managing infrastructure at scale. Her appointment as CEO of ActiveState isn't a standard leadership transition. It's a signal that the industry is moving from experimental growth to mature governance, and that the software supply chain has finally become a boardroom problem. The 96% Problem Nobody Is Talking About Here's a number that should get every CISO's attention: roughly 96% of modern applications contain open source components. That means the vast majority of proprietary software is built on code the organization didn't w...