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INMO (Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation) Professional Development Centre · Healthcare · Ireland

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Security headers and 1 other check.

Security score

61/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The INMO Professional Development Centre website serves as a portal for nursing and midwifery professionals in Ireland to access continuing professional development (CPD) courses, conferences, online resources, and library services. The site is affiliated with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, positioning it as a key educational resource within the Irish healthcare sector. The business model focuses on providing professional education and development services to healthcare practitioners, supporting competency maintenance and registration requirements. Technically, the website employs a traditional web stack including jQuery 1.8.2, Google Maps API, and external CSS hosted on AWS S3. Hosting is managed via Blacknight, an Irish hosting provider. While the site is functional and moderately optimized, it uses outdated JavaScript libraries and lacks modern security headers, which could expose it to vulnerabilities. The site includes a cookie consent mechanism but lacks advanced privacy compliance indicators. From a security perspective, the site uses HTTPS and has a cookie consent banner, but it does not enable DNSSEC and uses an outdated jQuery version with known vulnerabilities. No advanced security policies or incident response contacts are published. The WHOIS data is consistent with the business claims, showing a domain age appropriate for the organization and no privacy protection, enhancing trustworthiness. Overall, the website is professional and trustworthy for its target audience but would benefit from technical and security improvements to enhance protection and compliance. Strategic recommendations include upgrading JavaScript libraries, enabling DNSSEC, implementing security headers, and enhancing privacy compliance documentation.

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"

    • 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

      • ASVS V3.4.3
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none';…

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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
15
Email security
70
DNS health
60
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
43
Average
61

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

The INMO Professional Development Centre occupies a strong niche within the Irish healthcare education sector, targeting nursing and midwifery professionals. Its competitive advantage lies in its affiliation with the national professional body (INMO) and its comprehensive offering of CPD courses, conferences, and specialized library resources. Revenue streams likely include course fees and conference registrations. The target customer segment is healthcare professionals seeking to maintain registration and competency. Growth indicators include a stable domain age and ongoing event listings. The partnership ecosystem includes the parent INMO organization and hosting providers. The website supports the organization's mission but lacks advanced digital marketing or analytics integration, indicating a focus on service delivery over commercial expansion.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a basic security posture with HTTPS enabled and a cookie consent mechanism in place. However, the use of an outdated jQuery version introduces potential vulnerabilities, and the absence of DNSSEC and security headers reduces overall security resilience. There is no published security policy or incident response contact information, which limits transparency and preparedness. Compliance with GDPR is implied but not explicitly demonstrated beyond a privacy policy and cookie banner. The site would benefit from a formalized security framework adoption and vulnerability management processes to mitigate risks and enhance trust.

Recommendations

  1. Upgrade all JavaScript libraries, especially jQuery, to current secure versions to mitigate known vulnerabilities.
  2. Enable DNSSEC on the domain to protect against DNS spoofing and improve domain security.
  3. Implement essential security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security to harden the website against common attacks.
  4. Enhance privacy compliance by expanding the privacy policy to explicitly address GDPR requirements and data retention policies.
  5. Publish a security policy and incident response contact information to improve transparency and readiness.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
INMO (Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation) Professional Development Centre
Description
The Professional Development Centre at the INMO provides nursing and midwifery professionals with continuing professional development (CPD), education, conferences, online resources, and a dedicated library service.
Key services
Online resources, Education and CPD courses, Library services, Conferences and symposiums
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
jQuery 1.8.2, Google Maps API, CSS stylesheets, JavaScript
Performance
moderate
Mobile
basic
Accessibility
basic
SEO
basic

Security

Observed score
55/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS usage implied by URLs
  • Cookie consent banner implemented

Analytics and tracking

Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Transparency
poor

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges
  2. Content is focused on nursing and midwifery professional development in Ireland
  3. No explicit privacy or security policies beyond basic cookie consent and privacy page
  4. No visible security headers or advanced security mechanisms
  5. Use of outdated JavaScript libraries may pose security risks
  6. Clear contact information including phone numbers and physical address provided
  7. No social media links detected in the provided HTML
  8. No analytics or tracking scripts detected beyond Google Fonts and Maps API
  9. No advertising or affiliate marketing detected
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses a traditional web technology stack with jQuery 1.8.2, Google Maps API, and CSS hosted on AWS S3. Hosting is provided by Blacknight, an Irish hosting provider. The site is moderately optimized for performance and has basic mobile responsiveness and accessibility features. However, the use of outdated JavaScript libraries and lack of modern security headers indicate technical debt and potential security risks. SEO optimization is basic, with minimal meta tags and no structured data detected. There is an opportunity to modernize the tech stack, improve performance, and enhance security configurations to better support business operations 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.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

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