Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office and the statistical offices of the Länder · Government · Germany
Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Email security and 2 other checks.
The Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office and the statistical offices of the Länder operates as an official government entity providing access to German official microdata for scientific research. The website serves researchers and statisticians by offering various data supply options, clear terms of use, and user support. The business model is government-funded with user charges for data access. The site is well-branded and consistent with government standards. Technically, the website is built on Drupal 10 CMS, uses Matomo for analytics with privacy-conscious configurations, and includes modern JavaScript libraries such as Hyphenopoly. The site is mobile-optimized, accessible, and SEO-friendly, though hosting provider details are not explicit. Performance is moderate with no critical technical issues detected. Security posture is solid with HTTPS enforced and privacy-respecting analytics. However, no explicit security policy or incident response information is published, and security headers are not evident. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were found. Privacy compliance is strong with GDPR-aligned policies and cookie consent mechanisms. Overall, the website is trustworthy, professional, and safe, with a high legitimacy score. Strategic improvements include publishing a formal security policy, incident response contacts, and adding security.txt for vulnerability disclosure to enhance transparency and security maturity.
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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.
6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements
What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies
What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
Domain is vulnerable to email spoofing
What to do: Implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC immediately
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 resources the browser is allowed to load
What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application
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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.
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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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