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Security report for aso.fr

Amaury Sport Organisation · Media · France

Medium risk. 5 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

70/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O) is a prominent international sports event organizer specializing in non-stadia events such as cycling, motor sports, mass participation events, golf, and sailing. It operates flagship events including the Tour de France and Dakar Rally, organizing approximately 250 competition days annually across 36 countries. The company is a subsidiary of the Amaury Group, a major media and sports conglomerate. The website reflects a professional and consistent brand presence, targeting sports enthusiasts, participants, and business partners. Technically, the site employs modern JavaScript frameworks, Google Tag Manager, and consent management tools, ensuring moderate performance and good mobile optimization. Security posture is solid with HTTPS enforced and consent mechanisms in place, though additional security headers and explicit privacy policies are absent. WHOIS data is unavailable, limiting domain trust verification, but the website content and external links support legitimacy. Overall, the site is well-structured and trustworthy, with room for improvement in privacy transparency and security header implementation.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
85/ 100 · Low
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

5 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 X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

      What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"

    • 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 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
    • High

      Weak SSL Key Length

      SSL certificate uses 256-bit key, which is considered weak

      What to do: Use at least 2048-bit RSA or 256-bit ECC key

      • CWE-326
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • Mozilla TLS: Mozilla Server Side TLS 6.0 intermediate: rsa_key_size 2048

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  • TLS certificates and expiry
  • DNS records
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  • Security headers
  • GDPR and NIS2 posture
  • 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
42
Security headers
25
Email security
80
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
85
Average
70

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

A.S.O holds a strong market position as a leading organizer of international sports events, leveraging its affiliation with the Amaury Group and subsidiaries like Unipublic and A.S.O. UK. Its business model centers on event ownership, media rights, and sponsorship sales, targeting a global audience of sports fans and participants. The company demonstrates a diversified portfolio across multiple sports sectors, enhancing resilience and growth potential. The website's extensive linking to official event domains and career portals indicates a mature partnership ecosystem. However, the absence of detailed business registration data and contact information on the site suggests an opportunity to enhance transparency and stakeholder engagement.

Security posture

The website maintains a good security baseline with enforced HTTPS and integrated consent management for cookies, reflecting GDPR awareness. However, the lack of comprehensive security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options reduces defense-in-depth. No public security policy, incident response contacts, or vulnerability disclosure mechanisms are present, which could hinder rapid response to security incidents. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the analyzed content. Overall, the security posture is adequate for the business type but would benefit from enhanced header policies and published security governance documents.

Recommendations

  1. Implement comprehensive security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and Referrer-Policy to strengthen browser security.
  2. Publish a clear and accessible privacy policy and terms of service to improve transparency and GDPR compliance.
  3. Add a security policy page and incident response contact information to facilitate vulnerability reporting and incident management.
  4. Consider publishing a security.txt file or vulnerability disclosure program to encourage responsible security research.
  5. Enhance accessibility features and SEO metadata to improve user experience and search engine visibility.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Amaury Sport Organisation
Description
Amaury Sport Organisation is a company that owns, designs and organises top international sporting events. Specialised in the ‘non-stadia’ events, it has in-house knowledge of professions linked to organisation, media and sales of sports events. A.S.O. organises 250 days of competition per year, with 100 events in 36 countries. It is involved in 5 major sports including cycling with the Tour de France, motor sports with the Dakar, mass events with the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris, golf with the Lacoste Ladies Open de France and sailing with production and distribution of images for prestigious races. Amaury Sport Organisation is a subsidiary of the Amaury Group, media and sport group that owns the newspaper L’Equipe. Subsidiaries include Unipublic in Spain, A.S.O. Germany and A.S.O. UK.
Key services
Event ownership and organization, Media production and distribution, Sales and sponsorship management
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
JavaScript, Google Tag Manager, Google Publisher Tags (GPT), ConsentManager.net, Facebook SDK
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Consent management implemented
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Tag Manager
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Ad networks
Google Ad Manager
Tracking pixels
Facebook Pixel
Marketing tools
ConsentManager.net
Transparency
good

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content and multimedia.
  2. No WHOIS data available, limiting domain trust verification.
  3. Consent management and cookie policy implemented.
  4. No explicit privacy policy or terms of service found on main page.
  5. No direct contact emails or phone numbers found in visible content.
  6. Strong branding consistency and professional presentation.
  7. Multiple external links to official event sites and subsidiaries.
  8. Use of Google Tag Manager and Facebook SDK for analytics and marketing.
  9. No security.txt or vulnerability disclosure found.
  10. No security incident response information provided.
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses a modern JavaScript-based front end with asynchronous loading of Google Tag Manager, Facebook SDK, and ConsentManager scripts, indicating a mature digital marketing and analytics setup. Preloading of CSS and JS assets suggests performance optimization efforts. The site is mobile responsive with good navigation clarity. However, no CMS or hosting provider information was detected. Performance is moderate, likely due to multiple external scripts and ad slots. There is no evidence of outdated or vulnerable libraries in the provided content. The technical infrastructure supports a professional sports event organization but could be improved with enhanced security headers and more explicit privacy and compliance documentation.
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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