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Security report for amf-france.org

Autorité des marchés financiers · Finance · France

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

65/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is the French national financial regulatory authority responsible for protecting savings, informing investors, and ensuring the proper functioning of financial markets. The website serves a broad audience including financial professionals, investors, and the general public, offering regulatory information, sanctions data, and investor resources. The AMF operates as a large, essential entity within the finance sector in France, providing authoritative content and services such as databases and extranet portals for professionals. Technically, the website is built on Drupal CMS with a modern JavaScript and CSS stack, but suffers from slow load times and lacks a valid SSL certificate, which significantly impacts its security posture. The site is mobile-optimized and has good SEO and accessibility basics, but performance optimization is needed. The hosting is managed via Gandi.net DNS services. Security-wise, the site lacks a valid SSL certificate and security headers, and does not implement advanced TLS features like HSTS or OCSP stapling. While no critical vulnerabilities or WAF blocks are detected, these gaps reduce the overall security score. Privacy compliance is well addressed with a comprehensive cookie consent mechanism and GDPR-aligned privacy policies. Overall, the AMF website is a professional and authoritative resource with strong business credibility but requires urgent improvements in SSL/TLS configuration and security headers to enhance trust and protect user data. Performance optimization would also improve user experience and technical robustness.

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NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
25/ 100 · Critical
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

    • High

      Third-party services without privacy policy

      Detected services: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube

      What to do: Document all third-party data sharing in your privacy policy

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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
50
Security headers
55
Email security
75
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
25
Average
65

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

AMF holds a strong market position as the official financial market regulator in France, overseeing a wide range of financial actors including asset management companies, investment service providers, fintechs, listed companies, and professional investors. Its business model is regulatory and supervisory, funded by public means, focusing on investor protection and market integrity. The website supports this by providing access to regulatory texts, sanction decisions, and databases like BDIF and GECO. The AMF maintains active communication channels including social media and press releases, indicating a transparent and engaged approach. Growth indicators include strategic orientations for 2023-2027 and cooperation agreements with other authorities. The absence of direct contact emails or phone numbers on the homepage suggests a controlled communication flow, likely centralized through contact forms and official channels.

Security posture

The current security posture of the AMF website is moderate to weak due to the absence of a valid SSL certificate, which is a critical issue for any public-facing website, especially one handling sensitive regulatory information. The lack of HTTPS enforcement and missing security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options expose the site to potential man-in-the-middle attacks and clickjacking. However, the site does not exhibit known SSL vulnerabilities like Heartbleed or POODLE, and no WAF or security challenge mechanisms are detected, indicating no active blocking or mitigation layers. The cookie consent mechanism is robust and GDPR compliant, reflecting good privacy practices. Incident response and security policy information are not publicly disclosed, which is a gap in transparency. Overall, the site requires immediate remediation of SSL issues and implementation of security headers to align with best practices.

Recommendations

  1. Obtain and deploy a valid SSL/TLS certificate immediately to enable HTTPS and protect data in transit.
  2. Implement HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with includeSubDomains and preload directives to enforce secure connections.
  3. Add essential security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and Referrer-Policy.
  4. Enable OCSP stapling and session resumption mechanisms to improve SSL performance and security.
  5. Optimize website performance by reducing page load time and resource size to enhance user experience and SEO.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on Drupal CMS, leveraging standard web technologies including JavaScript, CSS, and external libraries like Popper.js. DNS records indicate hosting and mail services managed by Gandi.net. The site uses multiple A records for redundancy. Performance is suboptimal with a load time exceeding 16 seconds and a large page size near 1MB, suggesting opportunities for optimization. Mobile responsiveness is good, and SEO meta tags including Open Graph are properly implemented. The absence of DNSSEC and CAA records indicates potential areas for DNS security enhancement. The SSL configuration is currently invalid, severely impacting security and user trust. Cookie management is handled by the Tarteaucitron.js library, providing granular user consent controls. Overall, the technical infrastructure is solid but requires modernization and security hardening.
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

Earlier scans of this domain

  1. 80/100Low26 findingsView report
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