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Security report for hotelcesis.com

Hotel Cēsis · Hospitality · Latvia

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view and SSL/TLS.

Security score

66/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Hotel Cēsis is a small hospitality business located in the center of Cēsis, Latvia, offering accommodation with 39 rooms, a restaurant, and a café. The website is multilingual and targets general visitors and tourists seeking lodging and dining services in the city center. The business positions itself as a local hotel with additional services such as room rental for seminars and a solarium. The site includes customer trust signals such as Booking.com guest review awards and a Superior certificate. Technically, the website uses a modern technology stack including jQuery, Google Tag Manager, Snowplow analytics, and service workers for PWA capabilities. It is hosted on a CDN platform associated with MultiScreenSite, ensuring moderate performance and good mobile optimization. SEO and accessibility are basic to good, with proper meta tags and responsive design. Security posture is solid with HTTPS enforced and reCAPTCHA on forms, but lacks advanced security headers and explicit security or incident response policies. Privacy compliance is good with a clear privacy policy and cookie consent mechanism. Contact information is comprehensive and clearly presented. Overall, the website is professional, trustworthy, and suitable for its business purpose. The main limitation is the lack of WHOIS data due to query limits, which restricts domain registration verification. No critical security issues or suspicious content were detected.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
10/ 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

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 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

    • 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

    • High

      No Cookie Consent Banner found

      GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies

      What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit

    • High

      Third-party services without privacy policy

      Detected services: Google Analytics, Facebook

      What to do: Document all third-party data sharing in your privacy policy

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  • 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
72
Security headers
70
Email security
70
DNS health
75
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
10
Average
66

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

Hotel Cēsis operates in the hospitality sector, focusing on accommodation and food services in a local Latvian market. Its competitive advantage lies in its central location, multilingual website, and positive customer reviews. The business model is direct service provision to tourists and visitors, with revenue streams from room bookings, restaurant, café, and event space rentals. The company maintains an active social media presence and leverages online travel platforms for reputation management. Growth indicators include digital marketing efforts and a modern website platform. Partnerships include the website developer Heise Marketing. The company appears stable with a small business scale and local market focus.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a moderate security maturity level with HTTPS and reCAPTCHA integration. However, it lacks comprehensive security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and HSTS, which are recommended to mitigate common web attacks. There is no visible incident response or security policy documentation, which could be a compliance gap. Data protection practices are implied through privacy policy and cookie consent but lack explicit DPO contact or vulnerability disclosure information. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected in the HTML content. Overall, the security posture is adequate for a small hospitality business but could be improved with additional controls and transparency.

Recommendations

  1. Implement security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and HSTS to enhance protection against common web threats.
  2. Publish a dedicated security policy and incident response page to improve transparency and preparedness.
  3. Regularly update and audit third-party libraries and scripts to avoid vulnerabilities.
  4. Enhance accessibility features to improve compliance and user experience for all visitors.
  5. Consider adding a vulnerability disclosure program or security.txt file to encourage responsible reporting.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Hotel Cēsis
Description
Viesnīca HOTEL CĒSIS atrodas Cēsīs, pašā pilsētas centrā ar skatu uz Maija parku un Vienības laukumu. Visi galvenie apskates objekti atrodas pastaigas attālumā. Viesnīcā kopumā ir 39 numuri. Viesnīcā pieejams restorāns un kafejnīca.
Key services
hotel accommodation, restaurant, café, room rental for seminars and presentations, solarium
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
jQuery 3.7.0, skrollr, Google Tag Manager, Snowplow analytics, reCAPTCHA, Mapbox, service worker for PWA
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • reCAPTCHA on contact form
  • service worker registration

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics, Snowplow
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Google Analytics (gtag), Snowplow
Marketing tools
Snowplow analytics
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content.
  2. Multi-language support with Latvian, English, and Russian.
  3. Includes a reservation form with standard fields and reCAPTCHA.
  4. Social media presence on Facebook, Instagram, Tripadvisor.
  5. Privacy policy and cookie consent implemented.
  6. No visible security policy or incident response information.
  7. No terms of service page detected.
  8. Uses modern web technologies and PWA features.
  9. No suspicious or malicious content detected.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a proprietary CMS platform (MultiScreenSite) with a modern front-end stack including jQuery 3.7.0 and skrollr for animations. It uses Google Tag Manager and Snowplow for analytics and tracking, and integrates Google reCAPTCHA for form security. The site is served via CDN with PWA features enabled through service workers, supporting offline capabilities and improved performance. The site is mobile responsive with good SEO meta tags and multilingual support. Hosting appears stable and performance moderate. Technical debt is low, but opportunities exist to improve security headers and accessibility compliance.
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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