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Security report for fondationdesponts.fr

Fondation des Ponts · Education · France

Medium risk. 7 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view and Security headers.

Security score

53/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Fondation des Ponts is a French non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting the École des Ponts ParisTech by promoting diversity, providing scholarships and loans, and encouraging entrepreneurship among students. The foundation operates primarily through donations and partnerships, targeting donors, students, and educational stakeholders. The website is built on WordPress with a standard technology stack including WPBakery, jQuery, and Sendinblue for marketing automation. While the site is content-rich and professionally designed with good navigation and mobile optimization, it suffers from a critical security issue: the absence of a valid SSL certificate, resulting in no HTTPS support. This significantly impacts the security posture and user trust. Additionally, no explicit privacy policy or terms of service pages were found, though a cookie consent banner is present. Social media presence is strong, enhancing business credibility. Overall, the site scores moderately on content and business credibility but poorly on security due to missing HTTPS and security headers.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
15/ 100 · Critical
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. GDPR outside view

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

    • Critical

      EU business without adequate privacy measures

      EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements

      What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures

    • 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

  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';…

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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
50
Security headers
15
Email security
50
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
15
Average
53

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

The foundation holds an important position in the education and non-profit sector, focusing on engineering education and diversity initiatives. Its business model relies on donations and partnerships, offering scholarships, loans, and supporting projects that encourage female engineers and students from diverse backgrounds. The foundation actively engages with its audience through exhibitions, social media, and targeted programs like 'Ambition Grande École'. The website reflects a consistent brand image and trust signals such as official logos and testimonials. Partnerships with the École des Ponts and alumni associations strengthen its ecosystem. Growth indicators include new projects and fundraising campaigns. However, the lack of detailed legal and security information on the site may limit trust for some stakeholders.

Security posture

The website currently lacks a valid SSL certificate, serving content over HTTP only, which is a critical security flaw. No security headers are implemented, and DNSSEC and CAA records are not configured, reducing DNS security. The site does not implement HSTS or OCSP stapling, and session resumption features are disabled. No known vulnerabilities like Heartbleed or POODLE are detected, but the absence of HTTPS exposes users to potential interception and man-in-the-middle attacks. No incident response or security policy information is published on the site. Overall, the security maturity is low, and urgent remediation is recommended to protect user data and enhance trust.

Recommendations

  1. Install and configure a valid SSL/TLS certificate to enable HTTPS across the entire site.
  2. Implement HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with includeSubDomains and preload directives.
  3. Add essential security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and Referrer-Policy.
  4. Enable DNSSEC and configure CAA records to control certificate issuance and improve DNS security.
  5. Publish clear privacy policy, terms of service, and security incident response information to improve compliance and transparency.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on WordPress CMS using WPBakery Page Builder and common JavaScript libraries like jQuery. Marketing and analytics tools include Sendinblue and Google Analytics. Hosting is provided by OVH as indicated by DNS records. The site has a slow load time (~22.8 seconds) and a large page size (~419 KB), indicating potential optimization opportunities. Mobile optimization is good, and SEO meta tags are properly configured. However, the lack of HTTPS and security headers represents a significant technical risk. The site uses standard fonts and image lazy loading but could benefit from performance improvements such as resource minification and caching enhancements.
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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