Walter de Gruyter GmbH · Education · Germany
Low risk. No critical or high findings.
De Gruyter Brill is a well-established, independent academic publisher with a rich history spanning over 300 years. The company specializes in publishing scholarly books, journals, and online resources primarily in the humanities and related academic fields. Their business model includes both traditional subscription and open access publishing, targeting authors, librarians, researchers, and academic institutions globally. The website reflects a professional and comprehensive digital presence, supporting various user roles with dedicated resources and clear navigation. Technically, the website employs modern web technologies including Bootstrap, FontAwesome, and Google Tag Manager, ensuring a responsive and accessible user experience. The site is well-optimized for SEO and mobile devices, with good performance metrics. Security best practices are observed with HTTPS enforcement and multiple security headers, although explicit security and incident response policies are not prominently published. The security posture is strong with no evident vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data. Privacy compliance is addressed with clear privacy and cookie policies, including consent mechanisms aligned with GDPR requirements. However, WHOIS data for the domain is unavailable or privacy protected, which is common for enterprises but slightly reduces transparency. Overall, the website and business demonstrate a high level of professionalism, trustworthiness, and digital maturity. Strategic recommendations include publishing explicit security policies, incident response contacts, and vulnerability disclosure information to further enhance trust and compliance.
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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.
No critical or high findings. These medium findings are worth fixing next.
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.
Controls browser features and APIs
What to do: Implement a Permissions-Policy to restrict feature access
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
Privacy policy lacks explicit GDPR compliance elements
What to do: Update privacy policy to explicitly address GDPR requirements and user rights
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
MTA-STS enforces TLS for email delivery
What to do: Implement MTA-STS to prevent downgrade attacks
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
1 resources loaded over insecure HTTP
What to do: Ensure all resources (images, scripts, stylesheets) are loaded over HTTPS
DNS sends visitors and email to the right servers. Misconfigured records can cause outages or let someone redirect your traffic.
DNSSEC is not configured for this domain
What to do: Enable DNSSEC to prevent DNS spoofing attacks
Domain can be transferred without authorization
What to do: Enable domain transfer lock for security
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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.
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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.
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
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Leaked records that mention degruyterbrill.com, from OffSeq Breach.
1 subdomain affected
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
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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