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Security report for friedrichshafen.de

Stadt Friedrichshafen · Government · Germany

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Security headers and 2 other checks.

Security score

53/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The Stadt Friedrichshafen website serves as the official digital presence of the city government of Friedrichshafen, Germany. It provides comprehensive information and services for residents, tourists, and businesses, including citizen services, tourism, cultural events, economic development, and municipal news. The site is well-branded, professionally designed, and targets a broad audience including local citizens and visitors. The business model is that of a municipal government entity focused on public service and community engagement. Technically, the website is built on TYPO3 CMS, leveraging modern JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, Bootstrap, Swiper, and Slick Slider for interactive and responsive user experience. It employs Matomo for analytics, ensuring privacy-conscious data collection. The site demonstrates good mobile optimization, accessibility features, and SEO practices, contributing to a positive digital maturity profile. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and uses cookie consent mechanisms compliant with GDPR. However, explicit security policies and incident response contacts are not publicly disclosed, representing an area for improvement. No critical vulnerabilities or suspicious content were detected. The WHOIS data aligns with the official city identity, supporting legitimacy and trustworthiness. Overall, the website presents a low-risk profile with strong content quality and privacy compliance. Strategic recommendations include publishing formal security policies, enhancing security headers, and providing incident response information to further strengthen trust and security posture.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
43/ 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

6 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 Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

  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"

  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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  • TLS certificates and expiry
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  • Security headers
  • GDPR and NIS2 posture
  • Exposed services
  • Third-party trackers
  • 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
45
Email security
70
DNS health
60
Network security
20
GDPR outside view
43
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

Stadt Friedrichshafen holds a strong market position as the official municipal government website, serving multiple stakeholder groups including residents, tourists, and local businesses. Its competitive advantage lies in comprehensive service offerings, rich local content, and integration of digital tools for citizen engagement and tourism promotion. Revenue streams are typical of government entities, funded by public budgets rather than commercial sales. The target customer segments are geographically localized but diverse in needs, ranging from administrative services to cultural and leisure information. The partnership ecosystem includes local service providers, event organizers, and digital agencies such as weber.digital. The website reflects a mature digital strategy aligned with public sector standards and community engagement goals.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a moderate to strong security posture with HTTPS enforced and a GDPR-compliant cookie consent mechanism. Use of Matomo analytics indicates privacy-conscious tracking. However, the absence of published security policies, incident response contacts, and advanced security headers (e.g., CSP, X-Frame-Options) suggests room for improvement in transparency and defense-in-depth. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were identified in the HTML content. The site does not appear to have a vulnerability disclosure program or security.txt file. Overall, the security maturity is appropriate for a municipal website but could be enhanced by formalizing security governance and incident management disclosures.

Recommendations

  1. Publish a formal security policy and make it accessible on the website.
  2. Provide clear incident response contact information, such as a security@ or abuse@ email address.
  3. Implement and configure security headers like Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security.
  4. Regularly audit and update third-party libraries and scripts to mitigate vulnerabilities.
  5. Enhance transparency by adding a vulnerability disclosure or security.txt file.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Stadt Friedrichshafen
Description
Official website of the city of Friedrichshafen, providing information about city services, tourism, culture, economy, and citizen services.
Key services
Citizen services and administration, Tourism information and bookings, Cultural and leisure activities, Economic development and mobility, Event information and news
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
TYPO3 CMS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Matomo Analytics, Swiper, Slick Slider, Mustache.js
Frameworks
TYPO3 CMS
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Cookie consent with opt-in mechanism
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • Use of deferred script loading

Analytics and tracking

Services
Matomo
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Matomo
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges.
  2. Content is rich, well-structured, and professionally presented.
  3. Strong compliance with GDPR and cookie consent regulations.
  4. No security policy or incident response information publicly available.
  5. Use of modern web technologies and CMS (TYPO3).
  6. Social media presence on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Mastodon.
  7. No suspicious or malicious content detected.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on TYPO3 CMS, a robust and widely used open-source content management system suitable for government websites. It uses modern front-end libraries including jQuery, Bootstrap, Swiper, and Slick Slider to deliver a responsive and interactive user experience. The site employs deferred script loading and lazy loading for images, contributing to moderate performance. Accessibility features such as skip links and ARIA labels are present, supporting inclusive design. SEO is supported by proper meta tags, canonical links, and structured navigation. The technical infrastructure appears well-maintained with no visible technical debt or deprecated technologies. Opportunities exist to improve performance further and enhance security headers.
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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