Lisa Grant

Teaches at Fordham University PCS

Lisa Grant started her career in 1995, managing Microsoft servers at a small financial company in Linthicum, Md. After joining a special project team in 1996 to get the company connected to the Internet, her team learned quickly that the onslaught of hacking attacks were due to a failure to install a firewall! Grant’s career in security and law was born. She went on to spend more than 15 years in various Internet security roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, VeriSign and Mindspark/IAC. Currently, Grant develops information security policy at one of the largest entertainment and media companies in the world.

Grant earned a Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law, and is registered to practice law before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In 2011, she worked as senior counsel in the global privacy department at Wyndham Worldwide. Grant specializes in teaching and advising on various data security issues related to the Internet and the law. 

Grant is a certified information system security professional (CISSP), and a certified information privacy professional (CIPP). She also holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of Hartford.