Understanding PCI Compliance: A Webinar Designed for Businesses

(PRUnderground) March 27th, 2025

Datatel, a leading provider of IVR Payments and Payment Technology, and SecuredNet, a premier cybersecurity and PCI compliance firm, are thrilled to announce an exclusive webinar focused on simplifying the Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance journey for businesses of all sizes.

Understanding PCI Compliance: A Webinar Designed for Businesses 

This insightful session, hosted by Barnard Crespi of Datatel and Steve Porter, CEO of SecuredNet, demystify the foundations of PCI compliance. Titled “Understanding Your PCI Compliance Scope: The Key to a More Efficient and Secure Business”, the webinar covers the crucial first step in PCI compliance—understanding and defining PCI scope. With expert insights from a PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), businesses will learn how to streamline their compliance efforts while enhancing security.

Key Webinar Topics: 

• Defining PCI Scope: The First and Most Critical Step

• How Reducing PCI Scope Simplifies Compliance and Saves Resources

• Third-Party Vendors Help Reduce Scope but Do Not Eliminate Responsibility

• Collaboration Across Departments: The Key for Effective PCI Compliance

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Expert Insights from Industry Leaders 

With decades of experience in payment security, Barnard Crespi and Steve Porter bring unparalleled expertise to this discussion. The webinar provides actionable strategies to help businesses navigate PCI compliance with confidence, ensuring that security requirements are met without unnecessary complexity.

“Our goal is to take the confusion out of PCI compliance,” said Barnard Crespi, Datatel. “By defining PCI scope correctly from the start and applying scope reduction strategies, businesses can significantly reduce effort, cost, and risk—making compliance a manageable process instead of a daunting one.”

“We see too many organizations struggle with scope creep and unnecessary complexity,” added Steve Porter, CEO of SecuredNet. “This webinar helps attendees understand how to clearly map out their PCI scope and apply practical techniques to streamline compliance efforts while maintaining high security standards.”

To help organizations identify their PCI Scope, Datatel offers a FREE PCI Scope Wizard Session and Report. This session helps businesses map out the people, systems, and processes involved in handling credit card information. You can request it [HERE].

About SecuredNet 

SecuredNet is a leader in providing robust security solutions, specializing in PCI compliance and cybersecurity. Currently certified as a PCI Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC), Qualified PIN Assessor (QPA), and Secure Software Assessor (SSLCA/SSA), SecuredNet’s team of experts is dedicated to helping businesses protect their data and maintain the highest standards of security.

About Datatel Inc

Working For Your Success!

At Datatel, we empower businesses to de-risk their payment processes, helping them focus on being more agile, profitable, secure and successful. By leveraging our cutting-edge payment software solutions and PCI-focused services Datatel helps businesses significantly reduce the inherent vulnerabilities of handling credit card data by ensuring efficient operations, meeting payment card industry security requirements, and enabling them to focus on growth and their customers.

As a PCI Level 1 Service Provider and PCI SSC Associate Participating Organization, we are committed to safeguarding our customers payment ecosystems and advocating for payment security standards globally.

Twenty-seven years ago, we launched Datatel with the vision of delivering innovative interactive voice response and business process automation solutions to enterprises. As we evolved and grew, our focus homed in on secure payment software and secure phone payment solutions to help our clients achieve greater efficiencies and future proof their operations.

Datatel’s IVR Payments, Payment Technology, and transaction automation solutions are employed globally by thousands of businesses, healthcare providers, academic institutions, government, software companies, and service providers.

At Datatel, we believe that a society that shortchanges its youngest and most vulnerable members is one that forfeits its own future. With that in mind, Datatel is involved with our community, working as a team to provide those who are in need with the support that will help them overcome their challenges, resulting in a brighter future for all of us and for generations to come

Our success comes from investing in our people, our customers, our partners, and technology. With a focus on innovation and security, we have arrived at a service delivery model that guarantees our customers’ satisfaction.

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