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Podcast series from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA).

  1. Nov 2

    #0243: Influence Over Authority: Lily Yeoh on Leadership, Risk, and the Human Side of Security

    In this episode of She Secures, host Heather Morrow sits down with Lily Yeoh, founder and CEO of C1 Risk and a cybersecurity leader whose career spans engineering, governance, risk, and compliance, and executive advisory. Lily shares how she "stumbled into" security before it was even called cybersecurity, starting with a global IT security role at Texas Instruments and an unforgettable grad school moment when her dorm room server was hacked and she had to work out incident response on her own.   The conversation explores what leadership really looks like: listening as a core skill, the value of diverse perspectives, and why influence matters more than authority. Lily describes her day as a vCISO and founder, moving between deep technical discussions with engineers and risk and budget conversations with general counsel, partners, and CFOs. She also talks about the issues law firms are facing right now, including automating compliance for ISO and SOC 2 audits, AI governance, and the growing gap in reskilling people to use AI well.   Lily reflects on turning around a struggling endpoint security project by listening first and making security implementation more human, recommends resources for emerging leaders, and shares a memorable lesson from Meg Whitman about letting go of the idea that we have to do it all. She closes with her passion for mentoring the next generation of women in security and building trusted peer connections.

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