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Alan Rosa

For CVS Health CISO Alan Rosa, a boring day is a beautiful one.

“The last thing you want as a cybersecurity leader—or technical operations leader, for that matter—is a phone call that says, ‘Something is wrong,’” Rosa told IT Brew. “A good day for me is when the phone doesn’t ring…That’s a boring day. That’s a beautiful day.”

A walk down memory lane. Though Rosa prefers a dull workday, his career in the industry has been anything but. In an RSAC interview, he told IT Brew his first gig of many in the industry wasn’t your traditional SOC analyst or help desk role.

“I was a watch guard in the Navy. So, that’s just my first time I was tasked with protecting something,” Rosa, who is also an SVP of infrastructure and operations at CVS Health, said. “And then after college, I was in Boeing [Defense, Space & Security] and so I was more of a general technologist.”

How Rosa tries to keep days nice and boring.—BM

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