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Walt Conway is an e-commerce and PCI DSS consultant applying 35-years of electronic payments and technology
management experience to helping education institutions plan, implement, and manage their credit card and e-commerce programs.
Walt spent over 10 years with Visa, and then two years as president of an Internet-based payment processor. Walt co-edits
the Treasury Institute's PCI blog and contributes to other PCI blogs and online forums. He was chosen by NACUBO to represent
Higher Education at the PCI Security Standards Council. He is a frequent speaker on PCI DSS, security, and e-commerce topics
at NACUBO, EDUCAUSE, Commonfund, Treasury Institute, and other professional conferences and webinars. Walt is a Certified
Payment-card Industry Security Manager (CPISM) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Society of Payment Security Professionals.
Walt co-authored "Why Banks View Campuses as High Risk Merchants", an analysis of Higher Education computer security breaches,
and "5 Strategies to Achieve PCI Compliance" (both published by the Association of Financial Professionals) and "Straight
Talk about Data Security" (in NACUBO's Business Officer). Links to these and other articles are below.
In 2002 he left the business world to serve education in another way, as a high school mathematics teacher. Having gotten
that out of his system, Walt now consults with colleges and universities (and their payment gateways and service providers)
to plan, implement, and manage their credit card and e-commerce systems, particularly achieving PCI DSS compliance. Walt and
his wife live in San Francisco.
Some recent publications can be downloaded below.

Straight Talk About Data Security
Walter Conway and Dennis Reedy
If you accept payment cards on campus, you need to comply with a standard designed for safe handling of sensitive consumer
information. Indiana University's compliance plans offer some guidance.

Five Strategies to Achieve PCI Compliance
Dennis Ready, CTP managing director, treasury operations, Indiana University and Walt Conway, Walter Conway Associates,
LLC
The higher education environment provides a microcosm of payment card realities. These “best practices” can work
in many industries. Dennis and I have received more attention from this article than anything else we've done together.
Click here to download "5 Strategies"
Cards at School: Why Banks View Campuses
as High Risk Customers Dennis W. Reedy, CTP, Managing Director,
Treasury Operations, Indiana University Walter Conway, Walter Conway Associates, LLC Accepting credit
and debit cards is a fact of life at campuses nationwide. Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard
and protect all transaction and consumer data. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was created to help
ensure the safe handling of sensitive consumer payment information
Download "Cards at School"
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