BT Wholesale has extend its hosted communication services portfolio with the addition of Semafone's contact centre PCI DSS compliance solution - Cardprotect - which also helps to address compliance for the incoming European General Data Protection Regulation (EU GPDR).
Semafone's Secure Payments product will be delivered as an extension to BT's Wholesale SIPT offering which provides telephony services over an Internet connection, and enables media streaming, web conferencing and desktop sharing among other features.
Secure Payments is also available as a feature of BT Wholesale's Avaya Cloud Service.
The product will allow BT's resellers to provide their customers with the ability to take payments securely via the telephone and achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), a regulation which governs the way in which organisations handle payment card data.
Steve Best, BT's Managing Director, Products and Commercial Management, said: "With the growing industrialisation of cybercrime posing an unprecedented threat to businesses and consumers, security is at the heart of everything we do.
"By effectively masking customers' payment card details and preventing personal data from entering the contact centre's IT network, we can help resellers protect their customers from the reputational and financial damage arising from security breaches and non-compliance with industry and EU regulations."
Semafone CEO Tim Critchley added: "Delivering our solution as part of BT's hosted communications portfolio gives us an opportunity to reach a much wider customer base."