Datatel and SecuredNet Announce Exclusive Simplifying PCI Compliance Webinar Available Now
Industry: Technology
Understanding PCI Compliance: A Webinar Designed for Businesses
Toronto, Canada (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
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
Datatel is a global provider of secure payment solutions, AI payment isolation technology, PCI-focused services, and executive advisory solutions that help organizations reduce risk, simplify compliance, and modernize payment environments with confidence.
For more than 30 years, Datatel has delivered enterprise-grade IVR Payment and transaction automation solutions designed to remove sensitive cardholder data from business environments and streamline workflows. Today, Datatel enables secure payments across voice, web, AI-driven customer interactions, and integrated software platforms while advising executive teams on payment modernization, risk reduction, and the evolving implications of AI-driven commerce.
Trusted by healthcare providers, academic institutions, government agencies, software companies, and regulated enterprises worldwide, Datatel helps organizations minimize exposure to payment data, reduce PCI scope, and align modernization initiatives across people, processes, and platforms. The result is lower operational risk, a stronger security posture, and improved efficiency.
Through structured advisory , Datatel provides leadership teams with clear visibility into their payment ecosystems identifying risk gaps, hidden vulnerabilities, operational inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities to ensure today’s decisions remain resilient as commerce evolves.
As a PCI Level 1 Service Provider and PCI SSC Associate Participating Organization, Datatel maintains the highest standards of payment security and actively contributes to advancing global compliance frameworks.
Datatel remains focused on delivering secure, scalable payment infrastructure and executive advisory services that support long-term operational resilience, responsible growth, and the future of AI enabled digital commerce.
At Datatel, we are also actively engaged in our communities. Webelieve that a society that shortchanges its youngest and most vulnerable members forfeits its own future, and as part ofthis core belief, we work as a team to support those in need and help them overcome challenges, contributing to a brighter future for all for generations to come.
