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Security report for acg.ch

Association des communes genevoises · Government · Switzerland

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 2 other checks.

Security score

56/100

Risk levelMedium

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

The Association des communes genevoises (ACG) website serves as the official institutional platform representing all 45 communes within the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It functions as a non-profit association dedicated to defending and promoting the interests of its member municipalities. The site provides information about the association's governance, affiliated entities, and news updates relevant to local government officials and stakeholders. The target audience primarily includes municipal authorities and local government representatives within the Geneva region. Technically, the website is built on Drupal 10 with Bootstrap 5 for responsive design and incorporates Matomo analytics for user tracking. The site demonstrates good mobile optimization, accessibility, and SEO practices, although performance is moderate. The use of deferred and asynchronous script loading enhances page load efficiency. However, there is room for improvement in security headers and explicit privacy compliance mechanisms. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and avoids exposing sensitive data in its HTML content. Nonetheless, it lacks visible security headers and published policies related to incident response or vulnerability disclosure. The absence of explicit privacy and cookie policies, as well as consent mechanisms, represents a compliance gap, particularly concerning GDPR requirements. Overall, the website is trustworthy and professionally maintained, reflecting its role as a government-related institutional entity. Strategic recommendations include implementing comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with consent management, enhancing security headers, and publishing incident response and vulnerability disclosure information to strengthen security posture and regulatory compliance.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
50/ 100 · Medium
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.

GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.

Priority findings

6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. Security headers

    Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.

    • High

      Missing Content-Security-Policy header

      Controls resources the browser is allowed to load

      What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application

      • ASVS V3.4.3
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none';…

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • High

      No Privacy Policy found

      GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy

      What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently

    • High

      No Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

    • High

      No Cookie Consent Banner found

      GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies

      What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit

  3. SSL/TLS

    TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.

    • High

      Weak Protocols Supported

      Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1

      What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions

      • CWE-327
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V12.1.1

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  • TLS certificates and expiry
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  • Exposed services
  • Third-party trackers
  • Security score drift

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
62
Security headers
50
Email security
70
DNS health
85
Network security
20
GDPR outside view
50
Average
56

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

Findings that cap the score at 49

Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

Partial scans

When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.

Risk levels

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

ACG holds a unique market position as the collective representative body for all communes in Geneva canton, providing advocacy and consultation services on legislative and regulatory matters. Its non-profit business model focuses on institutional representation rather than commercial activities. The association maintains a network of affiliated entities (GIAP, SIACG, CIDEC, FI, FIA, FIE, FIDU, FDAP) that support its mission. The website's content and structure indicate a stable organization with a medium-sized operational scale, targeting local government officials and municipal stakeholders. The presence of official links and consistent branding reinforces its credibility and institutional authority within the regional government ecosystem.

Security posture

The website exhibits a baseline security maturity with enforced HTTPS and no visible exposure of sensitive information. However, the lack of security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options reduces its defense-in-depth capabilities. The absence of published security policies, incident response contacts, or vulnerability disclosure mechanisms limits transparency and preparedness for security incidents. The use of Matomo analytics indicates moderate user tracking without explicit consent mechanisms, posing potential GDPR compliance risks. Overall, while no critical vulnerabilities are evident, the site would benefit from enhanced security controls and compliance documentation to improve its security posture and stakeholder trust.

Recommendations

  1. Implement and publicly display comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with user consent mechanisms to ensure GDPR compliance.
  2. Add standard security headers (Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options) to strengthen protection against common web attacks.
  3. Publish an incident response policy and provide dedicated security contact channels (e.g., security@ or abuse@ email addresses).
  4. Establish a vulnerability disclosure program or security.txt file to encourage responsible reporting of security issues.
  5. Regularly audit third-party scripts and analytics tools to minimize privacy risks and ensure secure integration.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Association des communes genevoises
Description
L’Association des communes genevoises (ACG) est un groupement intercommunal spécial ancré dans la loi sur l'administration des communes (LAC) dont sont membres toutes les communes du canton de Genève. Elle a pour mission première de défendre, promouvoir et représenter les intérêts des municipalités. À cet égard, elle est systématiquement consultée par le canton lorsqu'un projet de portée législative ou réglementaire concerne ses membres.
Key services
defense and promotion of municipal interests, consultation on legislative and regulatory projects, providing information and resources to member communes
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
Drupal 10, Bootstrap 5, Select2, Matomo Analytics
Frameworks
Bootstrap
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
75/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced (implied by canonical URL https://www.acg.ch/)
  • Use of deferred and async script loading
  • No visible exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Services
Matomo
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
poor

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Matomo
Marketing tools
Matomo Analytics
Transparency
basic

Site quality

Design
good
User experience
good
Content relevance
good
Navigation
good
Professionalism
good
Trustworthiness
high

Key observations

  1. Website is a government-related institutional site representing all communes in Geneva canton.
  2. Content is in French and well-structured with clear navigation.
  3. No privacy or cookie policies explicitly found on the homepage or main navigation.
  4. Contact information is available via a contact form but no direct emails or phone numbers found in the HTML.
  5. Use of Matomo analytics indicates some user tracking but no explicit cookie consent mechanism detected.
  6. No security or incident response policies published.
  7. Site uses modern technologies and is mobile optimized.
  8. No suspicious or malicious content detected.
Technical notes

Notes

The website leverages a modern technology stack centered on Drupal 10 CMS and Bootstrap 5 framework, ensuring responsive design and accessibility. The integration of Select2 enhances form usability, and Matomo analytics provides in-house user tracking capabilities. Script loading is optimized with defer and async attributes, contributing to moderate performance. The site structure includes well-organized navigation menus and interactive SVG maps for member communes. However, the absence of advanced security headers and explicit privacy compliance features indicates technical debt in security and regulatory adherence. Hosting details are partially inferred from analytics domains, with no explicit hosting provider identified. Overall, the technical infrastructure supports the business needs but requires enhancements in security and privacy implementations.
Standards and sources

Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

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