Nitin Bhatnagar

Nitin Bhatnagar

Regional Director, India, PCI Security Standards Council

Mr. Bhatnagar, Regional Director, leads the Council’s efforts in increasing adoption and awareness of the PCI Security Standards in India, South Asia and Middle East. In this role, Mr. Bhatnagar works closely with the PCI Council Management Team, Payment Brands, Assessors Community, Associate Participating Organization (APO), Board of advisors, Principal Participating Organization (PPO),  Government entities and Regulators. Mr. Bhatnagar is an innovative thinker, speaker, television personality, and technical writer and has been often quoted in cybersecurity news stories /interviews by news organizations including the FT.LK, BBC, ET Now, CNBC TV 18, Reuters, Economic Times and Times of India.

Mr. Bhatnagar has been working in payment security domain for close to a decade and half and has been recently recognized  amongst “Top 100 Cyber Security Leaders of India 2022”. He has been constantly part of Research and Development around role of new emerging technologies i.e. artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), in protecting Payment Infrastructure from Sophisticated Cyber Attacks. Mr. Bhatnagar possess Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi and Master’s in “Cyber Law and Information Security” from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India.