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Security report for digipolisantwerpen.be

Digipolis Antwerpen · Government · Belgium

Medium risk. 4 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

73/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Digipolis Antwerpen serves as the IT partner for the city of Antwerp, focusing on delivering accessible and user-friendly digital services to residents, businesses, visitors, and students. The organization operates as a medium-sized government technology entity founded in 2020, with a clear market position as a key digital enabler for the city. Their website reflects a professional and consistent brand image, offering job, internship, and procurement opportunities to engage with the community and partners. Technically, the website leverages modern web technologies including Next.js (React framework), Leaflet.js for mapping, and Google Tag Manager for analytics. The site is mobile-optimized, accessible, and SEO-friendly, with a moderate performance profile. Hosting details are not explicitly disclosed, but the site uses HTTPS with strong SSL configuration, ensuring secure communications. From a security perspective, the site demonstrates good practices such as HTTPS enforcement, secure external linking, and no visible vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data. However, explicit security policies, incident response contacts, and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms are not published, representing areas for improvement. Privacy compliance is well addressed with clear privacy and cookie policies, including consent mechanisms, aligning with GDPR requirements. Overall, Digipolis Antwerpen's digital presence is trustworthy, professional, and aligned with its government IT service role. The domain registration details support legitimacy, and the site integrates well with partner domains for jobs, internships, and procurement. Strategic recommendations include enhancing security header coverage, publishing incident response information, and establishing a vulnerability disclosure policy to further strengthen security posture and stakeholder trust.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
68/ 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

4 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 X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

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

    • 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';…

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • 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

  3. 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.

    • High

      Weak Protocols Supported

      Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1

      What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions

      • CWE-327
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V12.1.1

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  • 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
77
Security headers
35
Email security
85
DNS health
70
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
68
Average
73

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

Digipolis Antwerpen is positioned as an essential government technology entity providing IT services and digital transformation support to the city of Antwerp. Their business model revolves around public sector IT partnership, delivering digital services, managing public procurement, and fostering talent through jobs and internships. The organization benefits from strong city government backing, a clear target audience of local residents and businesses, and a growing digital ecosystem including community events via Meetup. Competitive advantages include official city affiliation, a focused digital service portfolio, and active engagement channels. Revenue streams likely derive from government funding and public contracts. The partnership ecosystem includes job and internship portals and public procurement platforms, enhancing operational reach. Growth indicators include recent domain registration aligned with business founding and ongoing content updates. Strategic observations highlight the importance of maintaining digital trust, expanding security transparency, and leveraging community engagement for sustained impact.

Security posture

The website exhibits a mature security posture with HTTPS enforced and no visible exposure of sensitive data or vulnerable libraries. Security best practices such as secure external linking and use of Google Tag Manager for controlled analytics are observed. However, the absence of explicit security policies, incident response contacts, and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms indicates gaps in transparency and readiness. Compliance with GDPR is evident through comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with consent mechanisms. The lack of a published security.txt or similar document limits external vulnerability reporting and incident communication. Security headers beyond HTTPS are not explicitly detected, suggesting potential for enhancement. Overall, the site is secure for general public use but would benefit from formalizing security governance documentation and incident response channels to improve resilience and stakeholder confidence.

Recommendations

  1. Implement and publish a comprehensive Content-Security-Policy header to mitigate cross-site scripting and related attacks.
  2. Create and maintain a publicly accessible security policy page detailing security practices and compliance commitments.
  3. Establish and publish incident response contact information, including dedicated security or abuse email addresses.
  4. Develop and host a vulnerability disclosure policy or security.txt file to facilitate responsible reporting of security issues.
  5. Regularly audit third-party scripts and dependencies to ensure no vulnerable libraries are included and maintain up-to-date software.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Digipolis Antwerpen
Description
Digipolis Antwerpen is de IT-partner van de groep stad Antwerpen. Samen met de stad werken ze aan digitale dienstverlening die zo gemakkelijk is dat iedereen er zijn weg in vindt.
Key services
Digital services development, IT support for city government, Job and internship opportunities, Public procurement and assignments
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
React (Next.js), Leaflet.js, CSS Flexbox Grid, Custom CSS, Google Tag Manager
Frameworks
Next.js
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • No vulnerable libraries detected
  • Secure external links with rel='noreferrer' and target='_blank'

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Tag Manager
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges.
  2. Content is professionally presented in Dutch (nl) language.
  3. Clear calls to action for jobs, internships, and assignments.
  4. Social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Meetup.
  5. No visible forms collecting sensitive data on the homepage.
  6. No explicit security or incident response policies published.
  7. Good use of HTTPS and modern web technologies.
  8. No suspicious or malicious content detected.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a modern React-based framework (Next.js) with server-side rendering capabilities, enhancing SEO and performance. It uses Leaflet.js for interactive maps and a custom CSS framework for layout and styling. Google Tag Manager is integrated for analytics and marketing tracking. The site is mobile responsive and accessible, with semantic HTML and ARIA attributes for screen readers. Performance is moderate, with deferred loading of scripts and optimized images. The absence of a detected CMS suggests a custom or proprietary content management solution. Hosting details are not disclosed, but the domain uses HTTPS with a valid SSL certificate. Technical risks are minimal, though the lack of explicit security headers and incident response mechanisms could impact operational security. Opportunities exist to improve security headers, formalize content management workflows, and enhance performance monitoring.
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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