# Linx Security Appoints Lauren Ball and Cinthia Portugal as Senior Vice Presidents

> Linx Security appointed Lauren Ball as SVP of Sales and Cinthia Portugal as SVP of Marketing, backed by $83 million in funding, to scale enterprise growth.

- Published: 2026-10-21T18:29:14+00:00
- Section: Leadership
- Author: News Desk
- URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-21/linx-security-executive-leadership-appointments
- Source: [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linx-security-expands-executive-leadership-to-accelerate-enterprise-growth-302915408.html)

## Key takeaways

- Linx Security appointed Lauren Ball as Senior Vice President of Sales and Cinthia Portugal as Senior Vice President of Marketing.
- Ball most recently served as Chief Sales Officer at AuditBoard, and Portugal led global marketing at Zenity.
- Linx Security is backed by $83 million in funding and has secured multimillion-dollar contracts with banks, healthcare organizations, and Fortune 500 enterprises.

[Linx Security](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00008m3/linx-security) appointed Lauren Ball as Senior Vice President of Sales and Cinthia Portugal as Senior Vice President of Marketing, the company said in a [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linx-security-expands-executive-leadership-to-accelerate-enterprise-growth-302915408.html) announcement on October 21, 2026. The AI-native identity security and governance platform is backed by $83 million in funding.

## Linx Security Adds Two Senior Vice Presidents

Ball brings enterprise sales leadership experience across AuditBoard (now Optro), AppDynamics, and Intuit. Most recently, she served as Chief Sales Officer at AuditBoard, following roles as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and interim Chief Revenue Officer. Over more than five years with the company, she helped scale its enterprise sales organization and support its growth. At Linx, Ball will lead global enterprise sales, expanding strategic customer relationships, strengthening partner engagement, and accelerating adoption across large enterprises.

Portugal brings a track record of building and scaling global marketing organizations, shaping emerging cybersecurity categories, and driving enterprise growth across Zenity, Humio, and CrowdStrike. Most recently, she led global marketing at Zenity, playing a central role in establishing AI agent security as a distinct cybersecurity category and positioning the company as a market leader. At Linx, Portugal will lead global marketing, advancing category leadership, strengthening market influence, and translating the company's technical innovation and customer success into sustained demand and revenue growth.

"Niv Goldenberg, our co-founder and Chief Product Officer, and I founded Linx to give enterprises the context and control to understand every identity, map its relationships, and govern the actions it takes," said Israel Duanis, CEO and co-founder of Linx Security. "Our customers are already putting this vision into practice at enterprise scale. Lauren and Cinthia bring complementary experience in scaling enterprise sales and building markets. Together, they'll help us reach more organizations, strengthen our customer and partner relationships, and accelerate our next phase of growth."

## Linx Security Funding and Platform Scale

According to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Linx Security raised a $50 million Series B led by Insight Partners with participation from Cyberstarts and Index Ventures in March 2026, bringing total disclosed funding to $83 million. The company's earlier $33 million Series A was led by Index Ventures and Cyberstarts with participation from Wiz founders in July 2024. Linx Security was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in New York.

## Earlier Linx Security Partnerships

In September 2026, Linx Security's security researcher Roy Itzhaky discussed the company's identity security platform and its research team's work on AI agents, including a capability to identify AI agent owners that helped an organization prevent an attack, [CTech](https://akta.pro/news-signals) reported. In July 2026, Linx Security announced an integration with Snowflake that enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and control third-party AI agent access to business-critical systems under existing identity governance frameworks, according to Prweb.

## Linx Security Platform Availability

The Linx Security platform is available for purchase through AWS Marketplace and the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem, the company said. Linx Security's technology and partner ecosystem spans Anthropic, AWS, Google Workspace, GuidePoint Security, Microsoft Azure, Okta, Optiv, and Snowflake.

## Companies in this story

- [Linx Security company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00008m3/linx-security) · website: https://www.linx.security

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