New York, N.Y. — October 21, 2026 — Linx Security, the AI-native identity security and governance platform, today announced the appointments of Lauren Ball as Senior Vice President of Sales and Cinthia Portugal as Senior Vice President of Marketing. The appointments mark the next phase of Linx's growth as the company expands its enterprise presence, strengthens strategic partnerships, and scales adoption of its platform for securing human, non-human, and AI agent identities.
The expansion follows growing enterprise adoption of Linx's identity security platform, which governs millions of identities globally and serves organizations including Aramark, GSK, Peloton, Discount Tire, Wiz, monday.com, and AlphaSense. Backed by $83 million in funding, Linx has secured multimillion-dollar contracts with banks, healthcare organizations, and Fortune 500 enterprises. The company is now investing in its global go-to-market organization to meet increasing demand for continuous identity governance and control.
The appointments also come as enterprises face growing complexity in managing identity risk. Gartner reports only 13% of organizations believe they have the right AI agent governance in place.¹ As organizations introduce more autonomous systems alongside human and non-human identities, Linx provides the continuous context needed to understand identity relationships, assess access risk, and govern actions across enterprise environments.
“Niv 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.”
Powered by continuous context from the Linx Identity Graph, the platform connects three core functions: graphing identities and their relationships, deciding which access and actions to allow, and enforcing controls before actions execute. This unified operating model supports modern identity governance and administration (IGA), identity security posture management (ISPM), just-in-time access, and identity lifecycle management across human, non-human, and AI agent identities.
Recognized in Forrester's The Workforce Identity Security Platforms Landscape, Q4 2025 report³ and named a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration², Linx continues to expand its technology and partner ecosystem, spanning Anthropic, AWS, Google Workspace, GuidePoint Security, Microsoft Azure, Okta, Optiv, and Snowflake. The platform is also available for purchase through AWS Marketplace and the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem.
Ball brings extensive 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 proven 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.
About Linx Security
Linx Security provides an AI-native identity security and governance platform spanning human, non-human, and AI agent identities. Powered by the Linx Identity Graph, the platform combines continuous identity context, risk analysis, and automated remediation to help enterprises govern access and strengthen security across their environments. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York, Linx is backed by Insight Partners, Index Ventures, and Cyberstarts.
Research References
- Gartner, “Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl,” April 28, 2026.
- Gartner, Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration, Rebecca Archambault et al., August 28, 2026.
- Forrester, The Workforce Identity Security Platforms Landscape, Q4 2025.
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