Yabing Wang: How practitioners can use vulnerability management to improve business objectives

In this episode, we are joined by Yabing Wang, the CISO at Justworks. Justworks takes the busyness out of growing a business and alleviates the unknown. NopSec’s Lisa Xu talks with Yabing about her multifaceted cross-discipline journey to become a leader in the field of cybersecurity.

In this interview, Yabing shares her insights into best practices for vulnerability management today, her vision of future security, and how practitioners can use it to improve security for businesses.

Topics discussed:

• Yabing shares some vulnerable moments that helped shape her career as a leader in the security industry.
• Yabing talks about how her education in philosophy brings value to her as a CISO looking at vulnerability management.
• Lisa and Yabing explore some of the commonalities in vulnerability management across different industries and market segments.
• They discuss prioritizing vulnerabilities and the need for bidirectional automation.
• Some best practices for vulnerability management metrics to mitigate risk are highlighted.
• Yabing shares her perspective on security at a company with a traditional legacy infrastructure versus a cloud-based business-centric approach.
• Yabing and Lisa talk about how cybersecurity is more and more tied to business objectives.
• Yabing explains her leadership style as a woman in a security leadership role.