Alumna Noopur Davis has been selected as the 2022 Alumni of Achievement award winner for the College of Science (COS) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System. (M.S., Computer Science, 1988)
Davis is the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security and Product Privacy Officer, at Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable. In this role she is responsible for overseeing the cybersecurity and product privacy functions for all Comcast Cable businesses, including all products and services delivered to the company’s residential and business customers.
“I am very fortunate to work for a company like Comcast, which takes cybersecurity and privacy very seriously,” the honoree says. “It is very important for the company to honor the trust our customers place in us as they live their digital lives on and through our products and platforms. Just as important are our teammates and our partners. Comcast operates at a huge scale, with complex infrastructure, product and operational capabilities. My team works alongside our network, product and technology teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our products, services and infrastructure.”
The alumna joined Comcast from Intel, where she served as Vice President, Global Quality, for the Intel Security Group. Previously, she was a Visiting Scientist and Senior Member of Technical Staff at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute and held various leadership and technical positions in Fortune 500 companies such as Chrysler and Intergraph.
Her current day-to-day responsibilities at Comcast make for a daunting list, running the gamut from overseeing product security and privacy, security and privacy controls, privacy engineering and operations, data protection, security architecture and engineering and security operations, to incident response, threat hunting, security intelligence and analytics, identity management, technical fraud and the Legal Response Center.
“I do wear multiple hats!” Davis says. “As a senior leader, a mentor, a champion of technical women, a board member, member of advisory councils, wife, mother, sister, aunt, and dog-mom. I travel a lot for work. A typical day may involve strategy sessions, design and architecture reviews, one-on-one meetings with my directs, participation on a panel or speaking engagement, a Comcast TechWomen event, engagement with legal and government affairs teams, policy and standards definitions, operations reviews, budgets and finance, product and project reviews, incident handling and dashing to or from an airport.”
When asked to share one piece of advice for a current UAH student in her field, Davis
offers wisdom that has served her well all her life.
“Enjoy the journey! This time that you have to study and learn and grow is precious –
don’t rush through it!
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