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Security report for behotelmalta.com

Be.hotel · Hospitality · Malta

Medium risk. 3 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view and SSL/TLS.

Security score

63/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Be.hotel is a 4-star hotel located in the heart of St Julian's, Malta, offering modern urban comfort with a variety of room types, facilities, and special offers. The website is professionally designed using WordPress with Visual Composer and integrates multiple modern technologies for booking, multilingual support, and user engagement. The hotel emphasizes direct booking benefits such as best price guarantees and flexible cancellation policies. From a technical perspective, the site uses a robust tech stack including Bootstrap, jQuery, and various plugins for enhanced user experience and performance. Security measures include HTTPS enforcement, reCAPTCHA on forms, and cookie consent mechanisms, although some security headers could be improved. The website is fully accessible without WAF or blocking mechanisms, and WHOIS data confirms the legitimacy and consistency of the domain registration with the business claims. Overall, the site presents a trustworthy, user-friendly, and secure platform for potential guests.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
43/ 100 · High
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

3 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

  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

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  • 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
0
Security headers
75
Email security
85
DNS health
75
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
43
Average
63

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

Be.hotel positions itself as a premium 4-star hotel in Malta targeting tourists and travelers seeking quality accommodation in St Julian's. The business model focuses on direct online bookings, supported by partnerships with booking platforms like direct-book.com. The hotel offers a range of rooms and suites, wellness and dining facilities, and promotes local attractions to enhance guest experience. The website's multilingual support and active social media presence indicate a strategy to attract international visitors. The presence of special offers and a newsletter subscription suggests ongoing customer engagement and retention efforts. The business appears medium-sized with a clear focus on hospitality and tourism in Malta.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a good security posture with HTTPS enabled, use of Google reCAPTCHA on forms to prevent spam, and a cookie consent banner indicating GDPR compliance. However, explicit security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options are not clearly detected, which could be improved to enhance protection against common web attacks. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were identified in the HTML content. The absence of a security policy or incident response information is noted. Overall, the site maintains a secure environment suitable for handling user data and transactions but could benefit from additional security hardening.

Recommendations

  1. Implement and verify comprehensive security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options.
  2. Add a publicly accessible security policy and incident response contact information to improve transparency and trust.
  3. Regularly update all plugins, themes, and libraries to mitigate vulnerabilities.
  4. Enhance accessibility features to meet higher compliance standards.
  5. Consider publishing a security.txt file to facilitate responsible vulnerability disclosure.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Legal name
Be.hotel
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Be.hotel
Description
be.HOTEL is a 4 star hotel situated in the heart of St Julian's Malta, a stone's throw away from St Geroge's Bay, the definition of modern urban comfort.
Key services
Hotel room accommodation, Special offers and promotions, Facilities including restaurants, pools, wellness center, Online booking
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress, Visual Composer, Gravity Forms, Bootstrap, jQuery, Select2, Slick Carousel, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar, Google reCAPTCHA, Weglot (multilingual)
Frameworks
Bootstrap
Platforms
WordPress
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Use of Google reCAPTCHA on forms
  • Cookie consent banner implemented
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics (via GTM), Hotjar, Facebook Pixel
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Facebook Pixel, Hotjar
Marketing tools
OptinMonster, Weglot
Transparency
good

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is a professionally designed WordPress site for a 4-star hotel in Malta.
  2. Multiple languages supported via Weglot plugin.
  3. Comprehensive information about rooms, facilities, special offers, and local hotspots.
  4. Includes multiple forms for booking and newsletter subscription with reCAPTCHA protection.
  5. Strong presence of privacy and cookie policies with consent mechanisms.
  6. Use of modern tracking and analytics tools with moderate user tracking.
  7. No signs of WAF or content blocking.
  8. WHOIS data consistent with business claims.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on WordPress CMS with Visual Composer for page building, leveraging Bootstrap for responsive design and jQuery for interactivity. It integrates several third-party services including Google Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar, and Weglot for multilingual support. Forms are managed via Gravity Forms with reCAPTCHA for spam protection. The site shows good SEO practices with proper meta tags, Open Graph, and JSON-LD structured data. Performance is moderate with asynchronous loading of scripts and use of CDNs for fonts and libraries. Mobile optimization is good, and the site provides a clear navigation structure. There is room for improvement in security headers and accessibility compliance.
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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