System and method of secure file sharing using P2P

A method of accessing, on a recipient mobile device, a file that has been shared by a sender mobile device, the method being performed by one or more processors of the recipient mobile device and comprising:

• receiving, via a peer-to-peer connection from the sender mobile device, a message including a link that is actuatable to generate a request to a permission server to access a file from a remote server of an enterprise entity;
• receiving an input corresponding to a user selection of the link;
• in response to the user selection of the link establishing a network connection with a permission server of the enterprise entity;
• transmitting a unique identifier of the recipient mobile device to the permission server over the network connection, wherein the permission server utilizes the unique identifier to determine whether the recipient mobile device comprises sufficient privileges to receive the file from the remote server:
• upon determination by the permission server that the recipient does comprise sufficient privileges automatically receiving a download of the file from the remote file server in communication with the recipient mobile device;
• and
• generating a confirmation to the sender mobile device once the file is downloaded using the link.