Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg · Education · Germany
Medium risk. 7 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Email security and 2 other checks.
The Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) is a cooperative network of academic, public, and specialized libraries in the Berlin and Brandenburg regions. It serves as a central service and development hub, providing key services such as unified catalog search, interlibrary loan, long-term archiving, and hosting of open-source library software. The organization targets libraries and library users within its regional scope, operating as a non-profit entity focused on enhancing library services through technology and collaboration. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with Themify and uses modern JavaScript libraries like jQuery and Isotope for UI enhancements. The site is mobile-optimized and demonstrates good SEO practices, although some accessibility features could be improved. Hosting appears to be managed by institutional providers consistent with the organization's affiliation, ensuring reliability and stability. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and avoids exposing sensitive data. However, explicit security headers are not detected, and there is no visible incident response or security policy documentation. Privacy compliance is partially addressed with a comprehensive privacy policy, but lacks a cookie consent mechanism. The absence of analytics scripts suggests a privacy-conscious approach. Overall, the website presents a professional and trustworthy front for the KOBV cooperative, with strong business credibility and a solid technical foundation. Strategic improvements in security headers, privacy mechanisms, and incident response documentation would enhance the security posture and compliance alignment.
Scanned
NIS2 Art. 21(2)
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.
7 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements
What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies
What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
Domain is vulnerable to email spoofing
What to do: Implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC immediately
SPF helps prevent email spoofing
What to do: Add SPF record: "v=spf1 include:_spf.yourmailprovider.com ~all"
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.
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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.
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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.
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
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Leaked records that mention kobv.de, from OffSeq Breach.
9 subdomains affected
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
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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