State of California · Government · United States
Medium risk. 3 critical or high findings in Security headers and GDPR outside view.
The website ca.gov serves as the official portal for the State of California, providing residents and visitors with access to a wide range of government services and information. It holds a strong market position as the authoritative source for California state government resources, featuring key services such as Real ID/license processing, birth certificates, tax refund checking, and business licensing. The site targets a broad audience including California residents, businesses, and visitors seeking official government information. From a technical perspective, the website employs a modern technology stack including ASP.NET, Bootstrap, and Google Tag Manager, hosted likely on Microsoft Azure. The site demonstrates good mobile optimization, accessibility, and SEO practices, with consistent branding and professional design. However, performance metrics were not available, limiting a full assessment of speed. Security posture is a significant concern due to the absence of a valid SSL certificate and lack of enabled TLS protocols, which critically undermines HTTPS security. While some security headers like Strict-Transport-Security and Content-Security-Policy are present, they are not fully enabled or configured. No vulnerability disclosure or incident response policies are publicly evident, and cookie consent mechanisms are missing, indicating gaps in privacy compliance. Overall, the site is highly professional and trustworthy in content and business credibility but requires urgent improvements in SSL/TLS configuration and privacy compliance to enhance security and user trust. Strategic recommendations include immediate SSL certificate installation, enabling modern TLS protocols, implementing cookie consent, and publishing security policies to align with best practices and regulatory requirements.
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NIS2 Art. 21(2)
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.
3 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
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.
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies
What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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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.
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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.
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Last checked 2026-07-05
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
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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