Carey Lening

Carey Lening, CIPP-E, CIPP-US, CDPP has over 20 years of progressive experience assessing risks and enabling top-tier data security and data protection for industry leaders like Facebook, Palantir and numerous F500 clients. Her cross-functional and cross-domain knowledge makes her equally comfortable discussing the legal nuances of data protection with lawyers, hashing out technical and implementation details with engineers and information security professionals, and providing a high-level overview to the C-Suite.

As a former attorney, Carey focused on the legal and policy issues surrounding computer & data security and privacy law. Carey has written and lectured extensively on best practices in data protection, information security & risk, and how to identify practical solutions to the changing regulatory landscape.

Carey earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Irvine, and her JD from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She is CIPP-E & CIPP-US certified, and holds a Certificate in Data Protection Practice from the Law Society of Ireland.