Business cloud file sharing
Business cloud file sharing
Cloud file sharing for business, without unmanaged public links
Keep the browser-based convenience teams expect while setting firmer rules around sensitive handoffs. Named access, AES-256 encryption, expiry settings and file-linked activity make each exchange simpler to govern.
Use each platform for its best job
Cloud file sharing for business with a clearer control boundary
General cloud workspaces are useful for storage, sync and collaboration. MX focuses on the moment a sensitive file leaves one person, team or organisation and needs an accountable handoff.
Storage and collaboration come first.
Designed for teams working on material together over a long period, with permissions built around employees.
- Shared folders and live co-authoring
- Flexible guest and link sharing
- Evidence may span several admin views
Recipient and handoff control come first.
Designed for the point at which a finished or high-risk file crosses a boundary and somebody must be able to explain what happened.
- Named users instead of open public links
- Expiry and download conditions per exchange
- Activity evidence stays with the file journey
Browser based
Apply the policy once, then keep files moving.
Employees and external recipients can use a direct browser route without installing a new desktop client. Secure upload portals give clients and suppliers a governed way to send information back.
Named-recipient access
Connect each exchange to approved users.
Time-limited availability
Match access to the life of the job.
Searchable activity
Review uploads, access and downloads later.
The link problem
Five ways an ordinary share link outlives its purpose.
Public links are convenient because they remove friction from the sender’s side. The cost usually appears somewhere else, and usually later.
It gets forwarded
Possession becomes the only test of entitlement. The person who opens the file may be several forwards away from the person the sender had in mind, and nothing in the record distinguishes them.
It never expires
A link created for a two-week tender is still live two years later. Nobody decided that; it is simply what happens when expiry is optional and the default is open.
It exposes its neighbours
A link into a shared workspace can reveal folder structure, sibling files or collaborator names that were never part of the intended handoff.
It cannot be reviewed usefully
A visit count tells you that access happened. It does not tell you who was invited, which version was available or whether availability later changed.
It survives the relationship
Suppliers change, employees leave and projects close. Access created without an owner tends to remain after everyone connected to it has moved on.
Protection beyond a standard cloud drive
AES-256 encryption, with patented ASR as an added safeguard.
MX combines encryption with its Anonymise, Shard and Restore methodology. ASR transforms the data, separates it into protected shards and restores the file for an authorised recipient. It is an additional protection method, not another name for encryption.
- Anonymise. Identifying information is separated from the protected data.
- Shard. The remaining data is split into independent protected fragments.
- Distribute. Shards are held across separate secure destinations.
- Restore. The verified original file is reassembled for the authorised recipient.
After the first month
Review the route with the people sending and receiving files, not only with the people who chose it.
Look for unnecessary steps, unclear instructions and policies that are either too broad or too weak. Refining around actual exchanges produces a more durable standard than deploying controls once and assuming behaviour will follow.
See it in your workflow
Give sensitive cloud exchanges a clearer set of rules.
Start with a seven-day trial for up to five users, or speak to the team about a larger deployment and governance requirements.