Dane Stuckey is a former CISO at analytics firm Palantir and was just announced to be OpenAI's newest CISO, working under head of security Matt Knight.

Stuckey broke the news of his new role in an X post Tuesday evening.

"Security is germane to OpenAI's mission," he said. "It is critical that we meet the highest standards for compliance, trust, and security to protect hundreds of millions of users of our products, enable democratic institutions to maximally benefit from these technologies, and drive the development of safe AGI for the world. I am so excited for this next chapter, and can't wait to help secure a future where AI benefits us all."

Stuckey began in 2014 at Palantir on the information security team as lead detection engineering and incident response. Before Palantir, Stuckey spent over 10 years in various commercial, government, and intelligence community digital forensics, incident detection/response, and security program development roles, based on his blog.

Perhaps Stuckey's work for Palantir, an AI company fat in government contracts, might help move some forward in OpenAI's ambitions in this direction. Forbes reports that OpenAI is working through its partner Carahsoft, a government contractor, to befriend the U.S. Department of Defense a little more closely.

Since lifting a ban on selling AI tech to the military in January, OpenAI has been working with the Pentagon on several software deals involving cybersecurity.
The company also recently added a former head of the National Security Agency, retired Gen. Paul Nakasone, to its board.
OpenAI has been beefing up the security side of its operation in recent months.

Some weeks ago, the company posted an opening for a head of trusted compute and cryptography to lead a new team focused on building "secure AI infrastructure," which would entail capabilities to protect AI tech, security tool evaluations and access controls "that advance AI security," per the description.