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Security report for cns-cares.org

Community Nursing Services · Healthcare · United States

Medium risk. 5 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, SSL/TLS and 1 other check.

Security score

57/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Community Nursing Services is a well-established non-profit healthcare provider specializing in home health care, hospice, and related medical services across Utah. With nearly 100 years of experience, the organization serves patients and families seeking compassionate, high-quality care in their homes. The website reflects a mature business with a clear market position and a comprehensive range of services including home medical equipment, infusion pharmacy, and immunizations. Their target audience primarily includes elderly and chronically ill patients and their caregivers within Utah. Technically, the website is built on Joomla CMS using the Astroid template framework and incorporates modern web technologies such as jQuery, Bootstrap, and Smart Slider 3. The site is mobile-optimized with good navigation and SEO practices, though accessibility could be improved. Security posture is strong with HTTPS, security headers, and CSRF protections, but lacks some privacy compliance features such as cookie consent mechanisms and terms of service documentation. Overall, the security posture is solid with no critical vulnerabilities detected. The site demonstrates compliance with HIPAA privacy requirements and includes a privacy policy. However, it would benefit from enhanced privacy compliance features and a formal vulnerability disclosure policy. The WHOIS data aligns well with the website's claims, indicating a legitimate and trustworthy organization. Strategically, CNS should focus on improving privacy compliance and transparency to strengthen user trust and regulatory adherence. Enhancing accessibility and publishing incident response contacts would further improve their security culture and user confidence.

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

5 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 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
    • 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';…

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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
50
Email security
75
DNS health
75
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
43
Average
57

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

Breach exposure

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Dark web exposure

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Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

Community Nursing Services holds a strong position in the Utah healthcare market as a trusted non-profit provider of home health and hospice services. Their nearly century-long history provides a competitive advantage and brand recognition. The business model focuses on delivering compassionate care with support from partnerships with reputable healthcare institutions and community organizations. Revenue streams likely include Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance reimbursements, and charitable contributions. The target customer segment is primarily elderly and chronically ill individuals requiring in-home care. The partnership ecosystem includes major Utah healthcare providers and national health initiatives, enhancing their service quality and community reach. The website content and testimonials reinforce a positive reputation and operational transparency.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a mature security posture with HTTPS enforced and multiple security headers implemented, including HSTS, X-Frame-Options, and Content-Security-Policy. CSRF tokens are present in scripts, indicating protection against cross-site request forgery. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the HTML content. However, the absence of a cookie consent mechanism and vulnerability disclosure policy indicates gaps in privacy compliance and security transparency. Incident response contact information is not publicly available, which could hinder timely reporting of security issues. Overall, the security maturity is good but could be enhanced by addressing privacy compliance and formalizing vulnerability handling processes.

Recommendations

  1. Implement a cookie consent banner to comply with GDPR and other privacy regulations.
  2. Publish a terms of service page to clarify legal terms and user responsibilities.
  3. Create and publish a vulnerability disclosure policy or security.txt file to encourage responsible reporting.
  4. Add publicly accessible incident response contact information to improve security communication.
  5. Enhance website accessibility features to meet WCAG standards and improve user experience for all visitors.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Legal name
Community Nursing Services
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Community Nursing Services
Description
For nearly 100 years, Community Nursing Services has provided expert home health care services across the state of Utah, with a compassionate touch.
Key services
Home Health Care, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment, Immunizations/Flu Clinics, Infusion Pharmacy
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
jQuery, Bootstrap, Smart Slider 3, FontAwesome, Lenis smooth scrolling, Joomla CMS, Slick Carousel, Fancybox
Frameworks
Astroid Joomla Template Framework
Platforms
Joomla
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • CSRF token present in scripts
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • Use of security headers

Analytics and tracking

Services
Cloudflare Insights
Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Cloudflare Insights
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is professionally designed and well-structured
  2. Content is relevant and comprehensive for healthcare services
  3. No signs of blocking or WAF interference
  4. Privacy policy present but no cookie consent mechanism
  5. No terms of service or vulnerability disclosure found
  6. Security posture is strong with HTTPS and security headers
  7. Contact information is clear but no email addresses explicitly found
  8. Social media presence is active with multiple platforms linked
  9. WHOIS data supports legitimacy and long-standing business history
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses a modern Joomla CMS platform with the Astroid template framework, leveraging popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap for responsive design and UI components. Smart Slider 3 is used for dynamic content presentation. The site loads external fonts from Google Fonts and icons from FontAwesome. Performance is moderate with deferred loading of scripts and asynchronous resource fetching. The site is mobile-optimized and SEO-friendly with proper meta tags and structured navigation. Technical risks are low, but some technical debt exists in the form of missing privacy compliance features and limited accessibility enhancements. Hosting appears to be behind Cloudflare CDN, providing performance and security benefits.
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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