Linda Brown
Principal - Security at Viridis Security
Coventry, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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SeniorLinda Brown is a principal security leader and founder with 25 years of technology and cybersecurity experience, currently serving as Principal - Security at BD Emerson and running Viridis Security as a vCISO and compliance MSP. She combines hands-on program building—having led SOC 2 Type II achievements with zero findings—with deep vendor and corporate perspectives that help SMBs implement pragmatic controls and scale governance. Her background spans risk, compliance, customer success, and product-focused roles at companies like Smallstep, Kenna Security, and Cisco, enabling her to translate engineering priorities into auditable security programs. Linda is CISSP-certified and experienced with leading CCM tooling (Drata, Vanta, SecureFrame) and frameworks from SOC2 and ISO 27001 to NIST, GDPR and HIPAA. Not obvious from titles alone: she has repeatedly delivered certification under tight timelines and tight budgets by blending automated tooling with tactical CISO judgment. Based in Coventry, Rhode Island, she’s known for making compliance approachable for growth-minded organizations without requiring a full-time CISO.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (13)
api-security10
api10
scripting10
security9
vulnerability8
rest7
python7
rest-api7
ruby6
creative-commons5
documentation2
open-source2
checkmarx1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KennaSecurity/All_Samples
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 reviews, 165 commits, 150 PRs in 5 years 1 month
apipythonend-userpartysecurity
KennaSecurity/toolkit
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Kenna Security API and Scripting Toolkit
Contributions:168 reviews, 63 commits, 243 PRs in 2 months
apiscriptingsecurity-toolssecurityapi-security
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