The Next Level
by Frank McCoy
fmccoy@ccgmag.com
Myrna Soto, SVP, CISO at Comcast Media.
THIS “SQUEAKY WHEEL” GOT THE IT SKILLS, AND THE TOP JOB PLAYING TO WIN: MYRNA SOTO’S INCREDIBLE RISE
A successful private sector chief information, technology or information security officer must
possess a special understanding of business. It is a given that internal and external clients expect that the information technology (IT) goods and services they buy will be of top value. If clients suffer disappointment, then mil- lions of miles of wiring, Rhode Island-sized server farms and trillions of symbols and letters of code that IT officers oversee
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and protect are worthless. Top IT officers possess the ability to conduct a Vulcan-style mind merge of business and tech savvy to maintain network and infrastructural performance at peak efficiency.
Myrna Soto, the senior vice president, chief information and infrastructure security officer (CISO) at Comcast Media does it daily, for a special reason. In mid-1990s, years before assum- ing her current position, she was a vocal unsatisfied business- side IT consumer, stakeholder and end user.
Faced with the challenges of being efficient, leveraging data
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