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Security report for cnbc.com

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

Security score

69/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The website www.cnbc.com is currently inaccessible due to an access denied error page, likely caused by a Web Application Firewall or other security mechanism blocking access. This prevents any meaningful extraction of business, technical, or security information from the site content. The WHOIS lookup also failed to return any registrar or registration details, which is unusual for a major media domain and further limits trust and legitimacy assessments. Without access to the actual website content, metadata, or technical headers, no detailed analysis of the site's infrastructure, security posture, or compliance can be performed. The overall risk is elevated due to lack of transparency and accessibility, and the site should be re-evaluated once access is restored.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
50/ 100 · Medium
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 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
    • High

      Missing X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

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

  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

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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
80
Security headers
30
Email security
70
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
50
Average
69

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

Due to the lack of accessible content and WHOIS data, no business intelligence insights can be derived. The domain www.cnbc.com is known publicly as a major financial news media outlet, but this analysis cannot confirm any current operational or market positioning details. No contact information, policies, or business descriptions are available for review.

Security posture

The security posture cannot be fully assessed due to the absence of accessible website content and headers. The presence of an access denied page indicates some form of security control is active, but no details on HTTPS configuration, security headers, or vulnerability disclosures are available. The lack of WHOIS data also raises concerns about transparency and domain legitimacy.

Recommendations

  1. Restore access to the website content to enable full security and compliance analysis.
  2. Ensure WHOIS registration data is publicly available and accurate to improve trust.
  3. Implement and expose standard security headers and policies for better security posture.
  4. Publish privacy, cookie, and terms of service policies to enhance compliance visibility.
  5. Establish clear contact and incident response channels for security and user support.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Generic detected. Access Denied page with minimal HTML content and reference to edgesuite.net error URL indicates a WAF or security blocking mechanism. These observations may be incomplete. For a fuller analysis, contact guard@offseq.com.

Business

Content quality
poor

Technology

Analytics and tracking

Site quality

Design
poor
User experience
poor
Content relevance
poor
Navigation
poor
Professionalism
poor
Trustworthiness
low

Key observations

  1. Website content is inaccessible due to access denied error.
  2. No metadata, forms, scripts, or business content available for analysis.
  3. WHOIS data is unavailable or blocked, no registrar or creation info found.
  4. External domain errors.edgesuite.net found in error message.
  5. No contact, privacy, cookie, or security policies detected.
  6. No technical or security headers available for review.
  7. Content safety is rated safe due to lack of content.
  8. WAF or security blocking mechanism detected, likely preventing access.
Technical notes

Notes

No technical details could be extracted from the provided HTML content due to the access denied error page. No scripts, meta tags, or technology indicators are present. The error references edgesuite.net, suggesting use of Akamai CDN or similar edge security provider. Without access, no assessment of performance, CMS, or frameworks is possible.
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. 76/100Low23 findingsView report
  2. 76/100 +16Low23 findingsView report
  3. 60/100Medium24 findingsView report
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