Securing Atlas Mutual's partner, bank and regulator file transfers by climbing the transfer staircase: inventory, protocols, authentication, encryption, integrity, automation, partners and audit; starting from a tangle of plaintext FTP scripts, one shared account for twelve inbound partners and one admin service account across all 140 jobs, and ending at proof — a claims file encrypted to the recipient's key, its checksum verified, a quarterly filing to the regulator confirmed by a signed AS2 receipt, and every transfer logged with chain of custody.

CY-MID-106Mid Level · Secure File Transfer

Secure File Transfer & B2B Integration — The Transfer Staircase

A hands-on mid-level course securing machine-to-machine and partner file transfer across the eight-step Transfer Staircase - Inventory, Protocols, Authentication, Encryption, Integrity, Automation, Partners, and Audit - retiring plaintext FTP, authenticating every partner with vaulted keys, encrypting payloads and landing zones, verifying integrity with checksums and AS2 MDNs, automating safely, and proving the pipeline to a regulator with real sftp, ssh-keygen, gpg, openssl, curl, and MFT-style commands. Four hands-on activities in every lesson.

15 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Discover, classify, and assign an owner to every file transfer, closing out shadow FTP.
Choose and harden the right protocol (SFTP, FTPS, AS2, or an API) for each partner relationship.
Authenticate every partner with a managed SSH key or certificate, vaulted and rotated, never a shared password.
Encrypt payloads and landing zones, verify integrity with checksums, signatures, and AS2 MDNs, and prove the whole pipeline to a regulator.

Price:৳8,000