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Security report for baseballaustria.com

Austrian Baseball Softball Federation · Other · Austria

High risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, SSL/TLS and 2 other checks.

Security score

39/100

Risk levelHigh

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

The Austrian Baseball Softball Federation operates as the national governing body for baseball and softball in Austria, providing comprehensive information on events, rankings, and federation activities primarily targeting players, clubs, and fans within Austria and Europe. The website serves as a central hub for news, schedules, and official communications, leveraging affiliations with the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and related organizations to maintain authoritative content. Technically, the site employs a modern tech stack including nginx, Bootstrap, jQuery, and DataTables, hosted on Amazon CloudFront CDN, but suffers from a critical lack of a valid SSL certificate, resulting in no HTTPS support and outdated TLS configurations. This significantly impacts the security posture and user trust. Security headers are present but insufficient to compensate for the missing HTTPS. Privacy compliance is addressed with a comprehensive privacy policy and cookie consent mechanism, though terms of service and incident response policies are absent. Overall, the site is professionally designed with good content relevance and navigation, but the lack of HTTPS is a major risk that should be remediated promptly.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
18/ 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. GDPR outside view

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

    • Critical

      No HTTPS encryption

      GDPR requires appropriate security measures for personal data

      What to do: Implement SSL/TLS certificate for HTTPS

    • 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

  2. 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.

    • Critical

      No HTTPS Encryption

      Website does not use HTTPS encryption, making all data transmission vulnerable to interception

      What to do: Implement SSL/TLS certificate and redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS

  3. 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 Strict-Transport-Security header

      Forces HTTPS connections

      What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"

      • CWE-319
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V3.4.1

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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
0
Security headers
60
Email security
50
DNS health
85
Network security
20
GDPR outside view
18
Average
39

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

The federation holds a strong position as Austria's official baseball and softball authority, with a clear focus on community engagement, event management, and sport promotion. Its business model revolves around sports governance, event coordination, and member services rather than commercial sales. The presence of an online shop indicates some revenue generation through merchandise or related products. The federation maintains partnerships with international bodies like WBSC and national sports authorities, enhancing credibility and reach. The target audience includes athletes, clubs, fans, and sports officials. The website's content and branding are consistent, supporting a trustworthy image. Growth indicators include active event scheduling and integration of live data feeds. However, the absence of detailed business registration or financial information limits deeper business intelligence insights.

Security posture

The security maturity of the website is currently low due to the absence of a valid SSL certificate and HTTPS support, exposing users to potential interception and man-in-the-middle attacks. While some security headers such as Content Security Policy, X-XSS-Protection, and X-Content-Type-Options are implemented, the lack of modern TLS protocols and HSTS reduces overall security effectiveness. No evidence of incident response or vulnerability disclosure policies was found, indicating limited preparedness for security incidents. The site does not expose sensitive data or credentials in the visible content, which is positive. To improve, the federation should prioritize obtaining a valid SSL certificate, enabling HTTPS, and adopting best practices for web security headers and incident management.

Recommendations

  1. Obtain and deploy a valid SSL/TLS certificate to enable HTTPS across the entire site.
  2. Enable and enforce modern TLS protocols (TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3) and disable outdated versions.
  3. Implement HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with includeSubDomains and preload directives.
  4. Establish and publish an incident response policy and contact channels for security issues.
  5. Regularly audit and update security headers and review third-party scripts for vulnerabilities.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Legal name
Austrian Baseball Softball Federation
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a solid technical foundation using nginx as the web server and Amazon CloudFront as CDN, ensuring good global content delivery. The front-end leverages Bootstrap for responsive design, jQuery for DOM manipulation, and DataTables for tabular data presentation. Google Analytics is used for traffic analysis. However, performance metrics are missing or zero, indicating incomplete measurement or reporting. The site is mobile optimized with good navigation clarity and accessibility at a basic level. SEO is supported by proper meta tags and structured content. The lack of HTTPS and modern TLS protocols is a significant technical risk. The site uses external resources from WBSC and social media platforms, which are well integrated but increase dependency on third parties.
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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