The Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie operates the Geodatenzentrum website as a central platform for providing official geospatial data, maps, software, and web services primarily for German governmental and professional users. The site serves as a key distribution point for both free and licensed geodata, supporting compliance with national and European data standards such as INSPIRE. Technically, the website is built on a Magento eCommerce framework with legacy JavaScript libraries including Prototype.js and jQuery 1.12.4, alongside geospatial libraries like OpenLayers. While the site uses HTTPS and CAPTCHA protections, some outdated libraries and missing security headers present moderate security risks. Privacy compliance is partial, with a privacy policy present but no visible cookie consent mechanism. Overall, the site is professionally designed, consistent in branding, and trustworthy as a government resource.
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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
5 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 Content-Security-Policy header
Controls resources the browser is allowed to load
What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application
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TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
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
67
Security headers
70
Email security
70
DNS health
70
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
28
Average
68
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 geodatenzentrum.de, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
Breach holds no records for geodatenzentrum.de right now. New leaks arrive continuously, so monitoring on Breach alerts you if that changes.
Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
The Geodatenzentrum holds a strong market position as the official geospatial data provider for German federal and state agencies, operating under the AdV framework. Its business model combines free open data offerings with paid licensing of detailed geobasis data. The target audience includes government bodies, GIS professionals, researchers, and the public interested in geospatial information. The platform's partnership with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AdV) and integration with other government portals like geoportal.de enhance its ecosystem. The site’s content and service offerings indicate a medium-sized government entity focused on geospatial data dissemination and related services.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a moderate security posture with enforced HTTPS and CAPTCHA usage to protect forms. However, the presence of outdated JavaScript libraries such as jQuery 1.12.4 and lack of explicit security headers (e.g., Content Security Policy, HSTS) reduce its security maturity. No explicit incident response or vulnerability disclosure policies are published, which could hinder rapid response to security events. The absence of a cookie consent mechanism may also pose compliance risks under GDPR. Overall, the site is secure enough for general use but would benefit from modernization and enhanced security controls.
Recommendations
Upgrade all JavaScript libraries, especially jQuery, to current secure versions to mitigate known vulnerabilities.
Implement comprehensive security headers including Content Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), and X-Frame-Options.
Add a visible cookie consent banner to comply with GDPR and enhance user privacy transparency.
Publish explicit security and incident response policies, including vulnerability disclosure guidelines.
Conduct regular security audits and penetration testing to identify and remediate potential vulnerabilities.
Site observations
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
Company
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
Description
Das Geodatenzentrum bietet amtliche digitale Geobasisdaten, Webdienste, Landkarten, Schriften, Software und Webanwendungen im Bereich Kartographie und Geodäsie an. Es stellt kostenfreie und kostenpflichtige Geodaten gemäß Geodatenzugangsgesetz und AdV-Gebührenrichtlinie bereit.
Key services
Digitale Geodaten, INSPIRE-konforme Daten und Dienste, Interaktive Atlanten, Landkarten, Open Data, Schriften, Software, Webanwendungen, Webdienste
Website is a government-operated geodata service platform.
Content is in German language targeting German users and professionals.
No signs of malicious or suspicious content.
Uses legacy JavaScript libraries which may pose security risks.
No visible cookie consent mechanism despite GDPR relevance.
No explicit security or incident response policies found on site.
Contact information is clearly provided in footer.
No visible analytics or tracking scripts detected.
Technical notes
Notes
The website is built on Magento with a combination of legacy and modern JavaScript libraries, including Prototype.js, Scriptaculous, and OpenLayers for geospatial functionality. The site uses HTTPS and includes CAPTCHA for form security. Performance is moderate, with room for improvement in mobile optimization and accessibility. SEO is basic but present with meta tags and structured navigation. The technical stack indicates a mature but somewhat dated infrastructure that would benefit from modernization to improve security and user experience.
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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