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Security report for englandhandball.com

England Handball · Other · United Kingdom

Medium risk. 7 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

63/100

Risk levelMedium

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

England Handball Association is the national governing body for handball in England, providing competition management, performance pathways, membership services, and community engagement. The website serves players, coaches, officials, and volunteers with relevant information and resources. The organization has a stable domain registered since 2001, reflecting its established presence in the sports sector. Technically, the site is built on WordPress with a modern tech stack including WooCommerce and Bootstrap, offering good mobile optimization and SEO practices. However, some analytics tools are not fully configured, and privacy compliance is limited due to missing privacy and terms of service pages. Security posture is moderate with HTTPS enabled but lacking DNSSEC and security headers. Overall, the site is professional and trustworthy but could improve compliance and security transparency.

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

7 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"

    • 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 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

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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
72
Security headers
15
Email security
70
DNS health
70
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
50
Average
63

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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Total records
11
Employees
0
Customers
11
Third parties
0
Weak passwords
36%

3 subdomains affected

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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

The association operates as a small-sized non-profit entity focused on sports development and community engagement. Its business model revolves around membership fees, event organization, and partnerships with sports equipment providers. The website integrates partner domains for equipment and services, indicating a collaborative ecosystem. The target audience includes handball enthusiasts across England, with a focus on youth and performance pathways. Growth indicators include active social media presence and regular news updates. The lack of explicit privacy and security policies suggests room for maturity in governance and compliance.

Security posture

The website enforces HTTPS and has domain transfer protections, indicating basic security hygiene. However, the absence of DNSSEC and security headers exposes potential risks. No incident response or vulnerability disclosure information is published, which could hinder rapid response to security events. The presence of unused analytics plugins and lack of configured tracking may reduce data privacy risks but also limits insights. Overall, the security posture is moderate but would benefit from enhanced policies, technical controls, and transparency.

Recommendations

  1. Publish a comprehensive privacy policy and terms of service to improve compliance and user trust.
  2. Enable DNSSEC on the domain to strengthen DNS security.
  3. Implement standard security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options.
  4. Configure or remove unused analytics plugins to avoid unnecessary data collection and potential vulnerabilities.
  5. Develop and publish an incident response and vulnerability disclosure policy to enhance security readiness and transparency.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Legal name
England Handball Association
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
England Handball
Description
The best sport you should probably play
Key services
Competitions organization and information, Performance pathway programs, Membership services, News and updates, Safeguarding and welfare, Coaching, officiating, and volunteering support, Club shop
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress 6.8.1, WooCommerce 9.9.5, Yoast SEO plugin, TranslatePress Multilingual, Ajax Search Lite, The Events Calendar, Responsive Lightbox Lite, Bootstrap 4.3.1, FontAwesome 5.3.1, jQuery 3.7.1
Frameworks
Bootstrap
Platforms
WordPress
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
65/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Domain status clientTransferProhibited and clientUpdateProhibited set

Analytics and tracking

Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
poor

Advertising

Ad networks
StackCommerce
Marketing tools
Google Analytics (not configured), Juicer social media feed
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is a WordPress-based sports association site with good content and structure
  2. No privacy or terms of service pages found, which is a compliance gap
  3. Cookie consent banner present and functional
  4. No security.txt or vulnerability disclosure policy found
  5. No explicit security or incident response policies published
  6. Social media presence is active and integrated
  7. No phone numbers found with clear company contact context
  8. WHOIS data supports legitimacy and long-term operation
  9. Some external partner domains linked for sports equipment and services
  10. Google Analytics plugin present but not configured, indicating potential underutilization of analytics
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses a well-supported WordPress CMS with popular plugins for SEO, e-commerce, multilingual support, and event management. The tech stack includes Bootstrap for responsive design and FontAwesome for icons. Performance is moderate with asynchronous script loading and CDN usage for fonts and libraries. Accessibility is basic but could be improved with more ARIA roles and semantic markup. SEO is enhanced by Yoast plugin and structured data in JSON-LD format. Hosting details are limited but domain registrar is Easyspace Limited. Overall, the technical infrastructure is solid but could benefit from performance tuning and enhanced accessibility features.
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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