Summary
Tony Keith is a seasoned CTO/CISO and PCI DSS expert with over 11 years of focused experience delivering compliance and secure payment architectures across merchants and service providers. He has driven more than 25 Level 1 RoCs and deep expertise across PCI DSS versions 2.0–4.0.1, regularly reducing PCI scope and costs (one engagement cut monthly asset scope by ~90%) while designing cloud-native (AWS) CDEs, segmentation, and high-availability payment platforms. Tony combines hands-on system administration, policy and SDLC development, and audit liaison skills with strong technical fluency in payment processing, fraud mitigation, and automated QA. He’s repeatedly led on-site audits, KIF/PCI PIN programs, and complex migrations from colocation to cloud, and is comfortable translating regulatory requirements into practical remediation roadmaps. Based in Cincinnati, he blends executive leadership with pragmatic engineering discipline to keep business objectives aligned with rigorous security controls.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Baccalaureate of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Cincinnati