Secure Partner File Exchange — Controlled B2B File Transfer with Xferity
Secure Partner File Exchange
Section titled “Secure Partner File Exchange”Secure partner file exchange is the core use case Xferity was built for.
Partners exchange files when they need each other’s data — banks sending statements, suppliers sending invoices, insurers sending claims, logistics companies sharing manifests. The exchange has to be automated, repeatable, and secure.
The problem
Section titled “The problem”Most organizations start with scripts or manual transfers. These work until they encounter one or more of these issues:
- a partner changes their SSH host key and transfers fail silently
- files arrive decrypted when they should be encrypted
- a file is processed twice because the script was re-run
- an auditor asks who received what file on which date
- a credential stored in a script rotates and nobody updates all the places it is used
Xferity is designed to avoid each of these problems from the start.
What Xferity provides
Section titled “What Xferity provides”Protocol trust verification: SSH host key verification for SFTP, TLS certificate validation for FTPS, certificate roles for AS2. Disabling verification is visible, tracked, and detectable through the posture engine.
Payload protection: OpenPGP encryption and decryption in flows. PGP keys are managed through the inventory and bound to partners through policy.
Idempotency: file hash tracking prevents duplicate processing on reruns.
Audit evidence: every file lifecycle event is recorded. xferity trace filename.csv shows exactly what happened.
Notifications: operators know when something fails, not partners.
Supported exchange patterns
Section titled “Supported exchange patterns”- SFTP: SSH-based partner directory pickup and delivery
- FTPS: TLS-based FTP with explicit mode and passive mode
- AS2: message-oriented B2B with signing, encryption, and MDN receipts
- S3-compatible storage: object-based exchange for cloud-hosted partners
- WebDAV: HTTP-based file exchange
- Azure Blob: Azure storage-based exchange