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Become a Certified Leader in Payment Privacy
Certified Payment Privacy Professional (CP3)
What is the Certified Payment Privacy Professional (CP3)?
As privacy regulations evolve and digital payment ecosystems become increasingly data-driven, organizations need professionals who can effectively manage privacy risks, strengthen data privacy compliance, and protect payment data across complex payment environments. The Certified Payment Privacy Professional (CP3) program equips participants with the knowledge and practical skills required to build privacy-centric payment ecosystems, safeguard sensitive data, and support privacy and data protection initiatives across the payment lifecycle.
Why Payment Privacy Matters
Payment systems process highly sensitive personal and financial data, making privacy a non-negotiable requirement. As data volumes grow and regulations tighten, organizations must embed strong privacy controls into how payment data is collected, used, and protected.
Key drivers include:
Growing volumes of personal, financial, and payment data being processed across organizations.
Rising expectations from customers, regulators, and stakeholders for stronger privacy and data protection.
The need to balance innovation with responsible data collection, processing, storage, and sharing.
Increasing regulatory requirements that demand effective privacy governance and compliance.
The importance of strong privacy practices in building customer trust, reducing risk, and supporting sustainable growth.
The Certified Payment Privacy Professional (CP3) program helps professionals develop practical knowledge in data privacy, privacy governance, and privacy compliance to support secure and responsible data handling across the payment ecosystem.
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What Makes CP3 Unique?
The World's First Payment Privacy Certification
CP3 is the world’s first ANAB-recognized ISO/IEC 17024 certification focused exclusively on payment privacy, establishing a new benchmark for professional competence in payment privacy and data protection.
Purpose-Built for the Payment Ecosystem
Unlike generic privacy certifications, CP3 focuses specifically on payment data environments, payment applications, fintech platforms, payment processors, and digital payment ecosystems where privacy risks and regulatory obligations are unique.
Competency-Driven Certification
The program is designed to validate practical capability, ensuring participants can apply data privacy principles, assess privacy risks, and implement effective controls within real-world payment environments.
End-to-End Privacy Lifecycle Coverage
CP3 covers the complete privacy lifecycle, including governance, risk management, privacy architecture, compliance, audits, impact assessments, and implementation strategies that support privacy and data protection objectives.
Practical and Industry-Relevant
Built around real-world payment privacy scenarios, implementation challenges, and industry use cases, the program helps professionals bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Globally Recognized Credential
ANAB recognition provides independent validation of competence and offers organizations confidence in the capabilities of professionals responsible for privacy compliance and data governance.
Program Scope
Build a strong understanding of data privacy principles, governance frameworks, privacy risks, data classification, and data lifecycle management practices.
Understand how payment data is collected, processed, transmitted, stored, and protected throughout modern payment ecosystems.
Learn how to identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate privacy risks using structured frameworks, practical methodologies, and industry-driven examples.
Explore privacy-preserving controls across infrastructure, applications, software, and organizational processes that strengthen privacy compliance and data protection.
Gain insights into global regulations and frameworks that shape data privacy compliance, including GDPR, DPDPA, PSD2, PCI DSS, and CCPA.
Develop the skills needed to conduct privacy impact assessments and support risk-based decision-making across payment environments.
Apply privacy concepts through industry use cases, implementation strategies, and real-world payment privacy scenarios.
Program Delivery
16-Hour Immersive Workshop
Delivered through an intensive instructor-led format designed to maximize engagement, learning, and practical application.
Expert-Led Learning
Learn directly from experienced privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, payment security, and legal professionals.
Interactive Learning Experience
Participate in discussions, demonstrations, case studies, and practical exercises focused on payment privacy challenges and regulatory requirements.
Flexible Formats
Available as online or on-site training programs for both individual professionals and enterprise teams.
Industry-Focused Curriculum
Designed around real-world challenges involving payment data, data privacy, privacy and data protection, and regulatory compliance programs.
Certification Readiness
Build the knowledge and confidence required to pursue the CP3 certification and demonstrate competence in payment privacy and compliance.
Who Should Attend
CP3 is designed for professionals responsible for privacy, compliance, governance, risk management, and security within payment ecosystems.
Data Privacy Officers
CISOs and Information Security Leaders
Privacy Risk Management Professionals
Privacy Auditors
Legal and Compliance Professionals
Subject Matter Experts
Cybersecurity Implementation Professionals
Payment Security Professionals
Heads of
Departments
Professionals aspiring to build expertise in data privacy and payment privacy
Trainer Profiles
Dr. R. Rajan
Vice President & Global Head, SISA Institute
Dr. Rajan brings over 28 years of experience across banking, financial services, healthcare, software development, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. He has led over 300 information security and privacy audits and trained more than 2,000 payment security professionals globally. His expertise in payment security, privacy governance, and regulatory compliance enables participants to gain both strategic and practical insights into payment privacy and data protection.
Dr. Surekha Thota
Senior Manager, SISA Institute
With over 18 years of experience across banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, and global IT services, Dr. Surekha specializes in cybersecurity, privacy, cloud technologies, software-driven transformation, and regulatory compliance. She has extensive experience translating complex privacy requirements into scalable governance and engineering practices.
Rizwanulla Shaik
Data Security and Privacy Consultant
Rizwanulla brings more than 11 years of experience helping organizations navigate GDPR, DPDPA, and global privacy regulations. His expertise spans privacy assessments, implementation programs, remediation planning, and privacy governance across banking, education, and technology sectors.
Nikhil Dinesh Shetty
Data Security and Privacy Consultant
Nikhil has over 8 years of experience in cybersecurity, data security, and privacy. His expertise includes Data Loss Prevention (DLP), CASB implementations, privacy program development, privacy impact assessments, and regulatory compliance across financial services and retail industries.
Neetin Hedau
Senior Director – Strategy, Risk & Privacy Services
Neetin is an experienced cybersecurity and governance leader with expertise across PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO standards, privacy regulations, risk management, and regulatory compliance programs. He regularly advises organizations on regulatory readiness, governance frameworks, and privacy risk management strategies.
Vignesh Kaimal
Specialist - Legal Expert
Vignesh is a technology and corporate lawyer with experience in commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance. He is an experienced counsel in privacy, cybersecurity, and emerging regulatory developments, with a focus on translating complex requirements into practical insights for business and security professionals.
Hear From Our Participants
"The session covered all aspects related to privacy and security within the payment ecosystem. It was easy to understand and highly practical."
Ram Prakash Reddy, Presales Lead – Assistant Manager
"The learning session provided a strong foundation in payment privacy and practical insights into data flows and risk identification."
Vanumu Saikiran, Security Analyst
"This workshop added valuable knowledge that complements existing payment security and compliance requirements."
Dharamsoth Hemanth Sai, Associate Consultant – PaySec
Ready to Advance Your Payment Privacy Expertise?
Join the world's first ANAB-recognized Payment Privacy certification program and build the expertise needed to lead data privacy, privacy and data protection, and data privacy compliance initiatives across the global payment ecosystem.