Friedrich Strauss is a leading German garden image agency operated by Image Professionals GmbH, specializing in high-quality garden, plant, and floristry photography. The company offers a vast image archive and produces custom photo shoots in their own photo greenhouse, collaborating with photographers and creatives across Europe. Their market position is strong within the garden and plant media sector, targeting professionals and enthusiasts alike. Technically, the website employs modern JavaScript libraries including React and jQuery, uses Matomo for privacy-conscious analytics, and maintains good SEO and mobile optimization. Security posture is solid with HTTPS and secure form handling, though improvements are recommended in security headers and cookie consent mechanisms. Overall, the site is professional, trustworthy, and content-rich, supporting a medium-sized business with a clear brand identity.
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NIS2 and GDPR posture
GDPR outside view
28/ 100 · High
Checks completed
7of 7
NIS2 Art. 21(2)
a(a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
b(b) Incident handling: One indicator
c(c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
d(d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
e(e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
f(f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
g(g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
h(h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
i(i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
j(j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside
Partly checked
One indicator
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.
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
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 X-Frame-Options header
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
This scan found 29 issues across 6 checks. Monitoring re-runs those checks daily, emails you when something material changes and records each fix, so you can show progress.
Daily monitoring
Recommended
€25per month
TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Security headers
GDPR and NIS2 posture
Exposed services
Third-party trackers
Security score drift
Email alerts on material changes and an exportable JSON history of every change.
Prices incl. 21% VAT. Secure checkout by Mollie; sold by SEQ SIA, Latvia.
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
25
Email security
70
DNS health
60
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
28
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
Breach exposure
Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.
Dark web exposure
Add-on
Leaked records that mention friedrichstrauss.de, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
The company operates in the media sector focusing on garden and plant imagery, leveraging a business model based on image licensing and custom content production. Their competitive advantage lies in a large, unique image collection and in-house production capabilities. The website links to multiple partner brands within the image and media industry, indicating a broad partnership ecosystem. Contact information and certifications such as BVPA membership enhance credibility. The target customer segments include publishers, designers, and marketing professionals seeking specialized garden imagery. Growth potential is supported by continuous content production and a strong digital presence.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a mature security posture with enforced HTTPS, secure form submissions, and privacy-aware analytics configuration (Matomo with disabled cookies). However, the absence of security headers like Content-Security-Policy and lack of incident response or vulnerability disclosure information represent gaps. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected. GDPR compliance is partially addressed but could be improved with explicit cookie consent mechanisms. Overall, the security maturity is good but can be enhanced by implementing recommended best practices.
Recommendations
Implement comprehensive security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security.
Add a visible cookie consent banner to comply fully with GDPR cookie regulations.
Publish a security.txt file to facilitate vulnerability disclosure and incident reporting.
Include explicit incident response contact information such as security@ or abuse@ email addresses.
Regularly audit and update third-party libraries and scripts to mitigate potential vulnerabilities.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
Company
Image Professionals GmbH
Description
Die Gartenbildagentur Friedrich Strauss aus München zählt zu den führenden Produzenten von Bildern und Reportagen rund um die Themen Garten, Pflanzen und Floristik. Neben einem umfangreichen Bildarchiv mit mehr als 140.000 Bildern produziert das Unternehmen individuelle Fotostrecken in der hauseigenen Fotogärtnerei mit Fotografen, Stylisten, Designern und Gärtnern. Ergänzt wird das Portfolio durch Arbeiten ausgewählter Garten- und Pflanzenfotografen aus ganz Europa.
Key services
Image licensing, Custom photo production, Photographer collaboration, Newsletter and blog content
Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges.
Content is professionally presented and relevant to garden and plant photography.
Strong presence of structured data and SEO best practices.
No explicit privacy or cookie consent banner detected despite GDPR relevance.
Use of Matomo analytics with cookie disabling indicates privacy awareness.
Multiple partner brands and related domains linked prominently.
Contact information is clear and consistent across site and structured data.
No security.txt or incident response contacts found.
Security headers not detected in provided data; potential improvement area.
Technical notes
Notes
The website uses a combination of jQuery and React 15.4.0, along with the Slick Carousel plugin for UI components. Matomo analytics is used for tracking with cookies disabled, indicating privacy considerations. The site loads CSS and JS assets with versioning for cache control. The HTML is well-structured with schema.org JSON-LD data for organization and website, enhancing SEO. Hosting appears stable with dedicated name servers. Performance is moderate with room for optimization. Mobile optimization is good, but accessibility features are basic and could be improved. No CMS is explicitly detected, suggesting a custom or proprietary platform.
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.
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