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Security report for digitalstate.io

DigitalState Solutions Inc. · Technology · Canada

Medium risk. 9 critical or high findings in Email security, Security headers and 2 other checks.

Security score

58/100

Risk levelMedium

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

DigitalState Solutions Inc. operates an open platform designed to facilitate the creation and management of digital public services for governments and public sector organizations. Their platform is modular, leveraging microservices architecture with components for service delivery, forms, workflow orchestration, authentication, identity management, and reporting. The company targets government entities seeking interoperable, accessible, and secure digital services. Their business model includes open source software combined with development support, cloud hosting, and consulting services. The company is positioned as a niche technology provider focused on government digital transformation. Technically, the website employs modern web technologies including Bootstrap, Angular, Symfony, and Camunda BPM. The platform integrates JWT for security and uses Grafana and ElasticSearch for reporting and monitoring. The website is moderately optimized for performance and mobile devices, with a clean and professional design. However, accessibility and SEO optimizations are basic. From a security perspective, the platform shows good architectural practices such as microservices and JWT-based security. However, the website lacks visible security headers, DNSSEC is not enabled, and no privacy or cookie policies are published, indicating compliance gaps. The domain uses privacy protection, which is justified for a small tech company. No critical vulnerabilities or malware indicators were found. Overall, the website is professional and trustworthy but would benefit from enhanced privacy compliance, improved security headers, and DNS security enhancements. Strategic recommendations include publishing privacy and cookie policies, enabling DNSSEC, adding security headers, and providing incident response information to strengthen trust and compliance.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
35/ 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

9 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. Email security

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.

    • Critical

      No email authentication configured

      Domain is vulnerable to email spoofing

      What to do: Implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC immediately

  2. 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"

    • 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';…

  3. 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

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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
62
Security headers
15
Email security
60
DNS health
75
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
35
Average
58

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

DigitalState operates in the government technology sector, providing an open source platform for digital public services. Their competitive advantage lies in their modular microservices architecture, open standards compliance, and focus on government-specific workflows and identity management. Revenue streams likely include consulting, support, and managed hosting services. The target customers are government agencies and public sector developers. Growth indicators include active GitHub repositories and community engagement via Slack. The company maintains a professional online presence but lacks visible certifications or formal trust seals. Partnerships appear limited to open source community and platform integrations. Strategic observations suggest focusing on compliance and security enhancements to increase market trust and adoption.

Security posture

The current security maturity is moderate. The platform uses JWT for securing microservices and employs a microservices architecture that supports separation of concerns. However, the website lacks critical security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options, and DNSSEC is not enabled, which are important for preventing common web attacks. No privacy or cookie policies are published, indicating GDPR compliance gaps. Incident response and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms are absent, reducing readiness for security events. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the HTML content. Overall, the security culture appears nascent with room for improvement in transparency and technical controls.

Recommendations

  1. Publish comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with explicit GDPR compliance statements.
  2. Enable DNSSEC on the domain to enhance DNS security and prevent spoofing.
  3. Implement and configure security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options.
  4. Provide clear incident response and vulnerability disclosure contact information on the website.
  5. Enforce HTTPS with strong SSL/TLS configurations and regularly audit third-party libraries for vulnerabilities.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
DigitalState Solutions Inc.
Description
DigitalState provides an open platform for building interoperable, accessible, multilingual, mobile, and secure digital public services tailored for citizens and staff experience. It offers a modular microservices architecture with components such as Services, Forms, Workflow, Authentication, Identities, Tasks, Topics, Interactions, Assets, Cases, Records, Reporting, CMS, Logs, SDK, Core, UI, and Discovery.
Key services
Open source digital public services platform, Microservices for service delivery, forms, workflow, authentication, identity management, Administrative and citizen portals, Reporting and dashboards, Development support and consulting
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
Bootstrap, Bootswatch Paper theme, Font Awesome, jQuery, Angular (mentioned in content), Symfony (mentioned in content), Camunda BPM, JWT, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Prometheus
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Symfony, Angular
Platforms
GitHub, Heroku (community Slack link)
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
basic

Security

Observed score
50/100
Good practices seen
  • Use of JWT for microservice security
  • Microservices architecture with separation of concerns
  • Open source code allowing transparency

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
poor

Advertising

Marketing tools
Mailchimp (via eepurl.com newsletter signup)
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content describing an open source government digital services platform.
  2. No privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies found, which is a compliance gap.
  3. Contact email support@digitalstate.ca is provided for support inquiries.
  4. Strong emphasis on open source microservices architecture with links to GitHub repositories.
  5. No phone numbers or physical addresses found on the site.
  6. Use of Google Analytics and Tag Manager without visible cookie consent mechanism.
  7. No security headers detected in the HTML content; DNSSEC not enabled.
  8. Domain registration uses privacy protection but is consistent with business profile.
  9. No signs of adult or questionable content; content is safe and professional.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built using a modern technology stack including Bootstrap for responsive design, Angular and Symfony frameworks for frontend and backend respectively, and Camunda BPM for workflow orchestration. The platform integrates JWT for authentication and uses Grafana and ElasticSearch for monitoring and reporting. The site loads moderately fast and is mobile optimized. However, SEO and accessibility features are basic and could be improved. Hosting details are not explicit but DNS is managed via GoDaddy. The site uses Google Analytics and Tag Manager for tracking but lacks cookie consent mechanisms. Technical debt appears low with active GitHub repositories indicating ongoing development. Opportunities exist to enhance security configurations and compliance documentation.
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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