Years in cybersecurity
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Marilyn Denise
Young
Chief Training Coordinator
Equipping people to become an active layer of defense.Explore profile ↓
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEWAWARENESS / HUMAN RISK / LEARNING
Marilyn Denise Young is a cybersecurity awareness and training leader with more than 15 years of experience across government, enterprise learning, human risk, and security communication.
Her experience ranges from serving as an external auditor for the Department of Justice to information security awareness coordination and lead facilitation for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Marilyn has designed annual awareness programs, role-based training, phishing resilience initiatives, and Cybersecurity Awareness Month experiences. Her work has included managing an immersive phishing program serving approximately 73,000 learners around the world.
She has also supported incident response tabletop exercises, learning management systems, vendor migrations, curriculum redesign, and tailored education for employees, contractors, and Congressional offices—connecting security requirements to behavior people can sustain.
Global learners supported
Government training experience
LEADERSHIP FOCUS
Security awareness becomes effective when learning is relevant, continuous, and connected to the decisions people make every day.
CAREER EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE INTO ACTION
A career built across complex environments.
Chief Training Coordinator
Brownstone Consulting FirmShapes workforce enablement, awareness strategy, and human-risk education.
Awareness Coordinator & Facilitator
U.S. House of RepresentativesDelivered role-based learning and security programs for staff and member offices.
External Auditor
Department of JusticeSupported assurance and information-security accountability in a federal environment.
EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENTFOUNDATIONS OF PRACTICE
Cybersecurity Awareness
Government & Enterprise Programs
Instructional Design & LMS Administration
Workforce Enablement
Human Risk & Behavioral Security
Phishing and Social Engineering
LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVE
“People are not merely a risk to manage—they can become the organization’s most adaptive defense.”