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Security report for institut-agro.fr

L'Institut Agro · Education · France

Medium risk. 8 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Security headers and 2 other checks.

Security score

58/100

Risk levelMedium

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

L'Institut Agro is a prominent French national higher education institution specializing in agriculture, food, and environmental sciences. It operates multiple campuses and is supervised by French government ministries, positioning itself as a leader in agroecological and environmental education and research. The website reflects a professional and comprehensive digital presence, targeting students, researchers, and academic partners. The institution emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and international collaboration. Technically, the website is built on Drupal 9 with modern frameworks such as Bootstrap and Font Awesome, and integrates Matomo for analytics with privacy-conscious configurations. The site is mobile-optimized, accessible, and features a robust cookie consent mechanism compliant with GDPR. Performance is moderate with good SEO and accessibility practices. From a security perspective, HTTPS is enforced, and privacy controls are well implemented. However, the absence of visible security headers and lack of published security policies or incident response contacts indicate areas for improvement. The WHOIS data is unavailable, which limits domain trust verification, but the website's content and external affiliations strongly support its legitimacy. Overall, the website presents a secure, professional, and user-friendly platform for its educational mission, with recommendations to enhance security posture and transparency to further strengthen trust and compliance.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
25/ 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

8 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 Consent Banner found

      GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies

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

  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 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
67
Security headers
50
Email security
55
DNS health
50
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
25
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

Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

L'Institut Agro holds a strong market position as a leading French public institution in agricultural and environmental education and research. Its business model is primarily public-sector funded, focusing on delivering high-quality education, research, and innovation services. The institution benefits from strategic partnerships with government ministries and recognized organizations, enhancing its credibility and reach. Its target customers include students, academic researchers, and industry partners. The presence of multiple campuses and extensive international partnerships indicates a large operational scale and growth potential. The institution's commitment to sustainable development and contribution to global goals (ODD) further differentiates it competitively. The website's professional design and comprehensive content support its authoritative market presence.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a mature security posture with enforced HTTPS, privacy-conscious analytics, and a comprehensive cookie consent mechanism. However, the lack of explicit security headers such as Content Security Policy (CSP), HSTS, and X-Frame-Options reduces its defense-in-depth. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected in the HTML content. The absence of published security policies, incident response contacts, or vulnerability disclosure mechanisms suggests limited transparency in security governance. The WHOIS data unavailability is a concern for domain legitimacy verification but does not directly impact the website's operational security. Overall, the security posture is good but could be enhanced by implementing recommended headers and publishing security documentation.

Recommendations

  1. Implement and verify HTTP security headers including CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, and X-XSS-Protection to strengthen browser security.
  2. Publish a clear security policy and incident response contact information on the website to improve transparency and trust.
  3. Consider adding a vulnerability disclosure policy or security.txt file to facilitate responsible reporting of security issues.
  4. Regularly audit third-party scripts and libraries to ensure no vulnerable components are included.
  5. Enhance WHOIS domain registration transparency to improve domain legitimacy and trustworthiness.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
L'Institut Agro
Description
L'Institut Agro is a French national higher education institution specializing in agriculture, food, and environment. It operates multiple campuses and offers education, research, and innovation services focused on agroecological, agricultural, and environmental transitions.
Key services
Engineering education, Research and innovation, Distance learning, International academic mobility
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
Drupal 9, Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Matomo Analytics, CookiesJSR
Frameworks
Drupal CMS, Bootstrap CSS framework
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Cookie consent banner with granular controls
  • Do Not Track enabled in Matomo
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Services
Matomo
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Matomo
Marketing tools
Matomo Analytics
Transparency
good

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content in French.
  2. No WAF or security challenge detected.
  3. Uses Drupal 9 CMS with modern frontend frameworks.
  4. Strong cookie consent and privacy compliance mechanisms.
  5. No visible security headers in HTML but HTTPS is enforced.
  6. WHOIS data unavailable, limiting domain trust verification.
  7. Contact information and official email present.
  8. Multiple official partnerships and ministry affiliations displayed.
  9. No adult or questionable content detected.
  10. Good use of analytics with privacy considerations.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a modern and widely supported CMS platform, Drupal 9, combined with Bootstrap for responsive design and Font Awesome for iconography. It uses Matomo analytics with privacy features enabled, reflecting a commitment to user privacy. The site is mobile-optimized and accessible, with good SEO practices evident from meta tags and structured navigation. Performance is moderate, with asynchronous and deferred loading of scripts to improve page load times. The cookie consent implementation is robust, providing granular user control. No major technical debts or deprecated technologies were detected. Hosting provider details are not explicitly available. Overall, the technical infrastructure supports a stable, secure, and user-friendly 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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