BIO

CEB Advising Special Counsel Alia Luria brings more than two decades of technology experience as a front-end developer, application architect, and CTO to her legal practice as a privacy and technology attorney. She advises global organizations on matters including privacy program design, data retention initiatives, incident response planning and privacy tabletop exercises. When working with clients she focuses on mitigating risk and protecting the future growth and profitability of the organization. She has served clients of all sizes--from small organizations just entering their growth phases to large global organizations with mature operations and existing privacy programs. Her industry experience includes technology, telecommunications, business-to-business services, energy, and logistics, among others. This background gives her a unique technical understanding not just of the business and compliance goals of her clients, but also of the implementation of data privacy and security protections. Her technical work designing and developing software resulted in a deep understanding of the applicable technology, project management and agile development processes, as well as experience collaborating with technical project management and development teams.

While an attorney at Akerman LLP, she was a founding member of the firm’s Data Law Practice and lead architect of the Data Law Center web application that provided advice on data breach notification compliance. After leaving Akerman, she was a partner and head of corporate in the boutique firm Losey PLLC, where she counseled multiple clients on GDPR compliance, data breach response, and policy development. As a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of InFront Compliance, which is an assessment platform designed to help organizations manage both internal compliance and third-party risk, she set the software requirements and managed the development of the application.