Agent Security · Seattle, WA

Casey
Silver

Security engineer building defenses for software supply chains and AI agents. Currently working on Agent Security at OpenAI.

DEFENSE / IN / DEPTHv.2026
AGENT
DEPLOY
BUILD
CODE
TRUSTVERIFY
01 / ISOLATE02 / ATTEST03 / ENFORCE
OPERATING THESIS

The best security controls are paved into the path—measurable, enforceable, and difficult to route around.

01 / FIELD NOTES

Writing from the edge of security and software.

All essays

02 / PUBLISHED WORK

Research that moves from threat model to implementation.

03 / INVENTIONS

Security systems made concrete.

Listed inventor on four granted U.S. patents and one published application spanning operational technology, control systems, IoT, and software provenance.

01PENDINGUS 2024/0202307 A1 Systems and methods for verifying a software product using a software-supply-chain-provenance verification servicePalantir Technologies · Published 2024
02GRANTEDUS 12,549,519 US 11,818,098 Security system, device, and method for protecting control systemsControl-system protection · Continuation grants issued 2026 and 2023
03GRANTEDUS 11,153,277 Security system, device, and method for Internet of Things networksMission Secure · Granted 2021
04GRANTEDUS 10,530,749 Security system, device, and method for operational technology networksMission Secure · Granted 2020

04 / EXPERIENCE

A career following the attack surface forward.

  1. 01
    2026—NOW

    OpenAI

    Agent Security

    Building defenses for increasingly autonomous agents: sandboxing, managed network access, controlled credentials, policy, and agent-aware monitoring.

  2. 02
    2025—2026

    Auger

    Security Lead

    Built the security program and team for an AI-native supply-chain company, spanning product, infrastructure, incident response, and compliance.

  3. 03
    2020—2025

    Palantir

    Application Security Engineer

    Led software supply-chain security work across source, build, provenance, deployment, and product threat modeling at enterprise scale.

  4. 04
    2016—2020

    Mission Secure

    Founding Engineer / Product Architect

    Built security technology for industrial control and operational technology environments, from full-stack systems to product architecture.

05 / BUILDING IN PUBLIC

Code, prototypes, and reference systems.

Public work spans the PushValidator MFA research suite and a decade of full-stack projects across JavaScript, Swift, and C#.

06 / SPEAKING

Making hard security systems legible.

Talks and conversations on agent security, application security, industrial systems, and the software supply chain.