SGS is proud to announce the global rollout of its Secured Document feature, which provides enhanced digital protection against fraud and falsification. The rollout primarily focuses on agricultural commodity related reports and certificates.

Powered by blockchain technology, SGS Secured Document helps customers manage their operational risk by providing secure access to a document’s history so that they can verify and authenticate its true origin.

Paul Harrison, Global Vice President at SGS, said:

“At SGS we’re committed to protecting the interests of our customers, and in a changing digital world ensuring that documents can be easily and securely verified helps make sure that key business transactions can proceed in confidence. I’m proud of the team for rolling out SGS Secured Document globally after an earlier highly successful trial.”

How SGS Secured Document Helps Our Customers

As trade becomes ever more complex, and trust becomes an even more essential component of completing international deals, SGS Secured Document helps customers to authenticate a document in real time and access its complete audit trail.

It is also straightforward to use. Thanks to SGS’s collaboration with Komgo’s Trakk tool, a document’s status can be easily verified by dragging and dropping a PDF file into a widget on SGS’s website or installing the Trakk plug-in in Outlook software. As a result, customers can easily verify the validity of final reports and certificates.

Komgo’s Trakk technology – used by SGS Secured Document – draws on  the company’s unique experience in the banking and trading ecosystem. Trakk supports commodity supply chain transactions, providing a secure network to register, trace and authenticate digital documents, increasing their integrity and overall value.

Making a Difference

Following a successful eight-month pilot program which saw over 2,000 documents registered, SGS is delighted to be able to offer this extra layer of security and validation to all their customers globally. Trakk is designed to work across different platforms and helps all kinds of businesses to secure their documents. The ramp-up will mean that over the next year hundreds of thousands of documents may be secured in this way annually.

SGS knows just how important transactional documents are, and SGS wants to give our customers the confidence that documents from SGS are both reliable and trustworthy. Audit trails and document verification details are securely stored in a private SGS data room on Komgo’s network, so that  customers can be assured of a system that is fraud-proof, confidential and fully accessible. Original documents always remain stored in SGS’s own secure environment, adding an additional layer of unmatched security. The unique digital “hash” created for each document will enable them to be incorporated into digital transactions now and in the future, providing full peace of mind for those on the receiving end.