Your Procurement Data Is Commercially Sensitive. We Treat It That Way.
Your procurement records reveal more about your organization than most people realize. Your supplier relationships, contract terms, purchasing volumes, cost center spend patterns, and price benchmarks are all commercially sensitive information. Borong is built on the principle that this data belongs to your organization and should never be used for any purpose other than serving your procurement team.
Why Procurement Data Security Matters
The sensitivity of procurement data is often underappreciated until it is compromised. Your supplier contracts reveal your cost structure and negotiated terms. Your purchasing patterns reveal operational priorities and strategic initiatives. Your spend analytics reveal budget allocation and financial performance across business units. In the wrong hands or directed to a competing commercial interest, this data can erode competitive advantage, undermine supplier negotiations, and expose financial information that should be private.
For most organizations, the question is not just whether a platform is secure against external threats. It is also whether the platform operator itself is a trustworthy custodian of that data. A procurement platform that also operates as a reseller has an inherent commercial incentive to use buyer purchasing data for its own benefit. A neutral platform with no commercial stake in procurement outcomes has no such incentive.
Borong addresses both dimensions: the technical security that protects against external threats, and the structural neutrality that ensures your data is never used against your interests internally.
Borong's Security Architecture
SOC 2 Type 2 Certification (In Progress)
Borong is currently progressing toward SOC 2 Type 2 certification, the internationally recognized standard for controls over security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of data. SOC 2 Type 2 is a more rigorous standard than SOC 2 Type 1 because it requires ongoing auditing of operational controls over a defined period, not just a point-in-time assessment. Security documentation is available to enterprise buyers and government organizations as part of vendor due diligence — contact our security team to request current documentation.
PDPA Compliance
Borong operates in full compliance with Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). All personal data collected and processed through the platform is handled in accordance with PDPA requirements, including the principles of notice, consent, disclosure, security, retention, data integrity, and access rights.
For Malaysian enterprises and government organizations with PDPA obligations of their own, Borong's compliance posture supports your ability to meet your own data protection requirements when using Borong as a processing platform for supplier and employee procurement data.
Multi-Tenant Data Isolation
Borong's platform serves multiple organizations simultaneously. Strict multi-tenant architecture ensures that each organization's data is completely isolated from every other organization on the platform. Your procurement records, supplier contracts, catalog configurations, and spending history are encrypted and stored in isolated environments. There is no technical pathway through which another organization's users can access your data, and no operational process through which Borong staff access organization data outside of defined support and maintenance contexts.
Encryption in Transit and at Rest
All data transmitted between your organization and the Borong platform is encrypted using TLS (Transport Layer Security). All data stored on Borong infrastructure is encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption. This applies to all procurement records, catalog data, approval workflow configurations, user account data, and transaction history.
Role-Based Access Controls
Within your organization, access to procurement data and platform functionality is controlled by configurable role-based access permissions. System administrators can define exactly what each user or user group can see and do on the platform. Sensitive data such as organization-wide spend analytics, contract pricing, and approval workflow configurations is accessible only to users with the appropriate permissions. Every access event is logged for audit purposes.
Platform Neutrality as a Data Security Commitment
Technical security controls protect against unauthorized external access. But data security also requires protection against authorized internal misuse. A procurement platform that operates as a reseller has a commercial structure that creates internal incentive to use buyer purchasing data for competitive intelligence. Technical controls alone cannot fully address this risk when the business model creates a financial incentive for internal misuse.
Borong's neutrality is the additional layer that technical controls alone cannot provide. Because Borong does not buy or resell products, there is no commercial incentive for any team within Borong to access or exploit your purchasing data. Your spend patterns, supplier relationships, and contract terms are not useful to us for any commercial purpose. We have no product pricing strategy to inform, no private-label development program to optimize, and no competitive intelligence agenda to serve.
This is why Borong frames data protection not just as a technical compliance matter but as a consequence of business model. The two work together: our security architecture prevents unauthorized access, and our business model removes the incentive for authorized misuse.
For IT and Security Teams: Technical Summary
- SOC 2 Type 2 in progress: independently audited controls across security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy
- PDPA compliant: full compliance with Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act for all personal data processed through the platform
- Multi-tenant isolation: strict data separation between organizations with no cross-tenant data access pathways
- Encryption in transit: TLS encryption for all data in transit between client and server
- Encryption at rest: AES-256 encryption for all stored data
- Role-based access controls: configurable permission structures with full access event logging
- Penetration testing: regular third-party security testing of platform infrastructure
- Incident response: defined procedures for security incident identification, containment, and notification
Security documentation is available to enterprise buyers and government organizations as part of vendor due diligence. Contact our security team to request documentation.
Ready to Discuss Your Data Security Requirements?
Speak with our security team to review Borong's security architecture, request documentation, or discuss how our data protection framework meets your organization's specific requirements.