Advanced Secure Technologies
City and County of Cardiff, United Kingdom
November 2025
Software publishing and SaaS platforms
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Australia,
Botswana,
Canada,
Cyprus,
Ghana,
South Africa,
United Kingdom
Since 2004, Advanced Secure Technologies has worked to STOP FRAUD for customers worldwide. As pioneers in document security, we established a global standard for secure credential technologies (digital, print and paper) trusted by leading institutions including the University of Oxford, Skills & Education Group, Imperial College London, IOSH, the University of St Andrews, EAL and Cardiff University. Our multi-layered technologies secure every stage of the credential process, helping customers and their stakeholders avoid fraud risks. This protects institutional reputations and the integrity of degrees, qualifications and other high-value credentials. Why work with us? For more than two decades, we’ve been at the forefront of secure technologies, helping organisations stop fraud. But our work goes beyond security – It’s about our customer relationships and meaningful career opportunities for our people. Driven by a passion for excellence, we’re building an exciting future and in many ways, we’re just getting started. The Best & Most Secure – our customers and people are at the heart of what we do 20+ years protecting millions of secure degrees, qualifications and credentials 200+ higher and further education customers worldwide
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.6
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 34.2
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 16.6
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 8.5
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 3.5
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.