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Security report for lakimiesyhdistys.fi

Suomalainen Lakimiesyhdistys · Education · Finland

Medium risk. 8 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view and Security headers.

Security score

50/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Suomalainen Lakimiesyhdistys is a well-established Finnish legal association with a long history of supporting legal professionals, researchers, and students through publications, events, and grants. The website serves as an information hub for the association's activities, including event announcements and access to legal literature. The target audience is primarily Finnish legal academics and practitioners. Technically, the site is built on WordPress with common plugins but suffers from slow performance and lacks modern security configurations. The absence of a valid SSL certificate and security headers significantly weakens the site's security posture. Privacy compliance is poor, with no visible privacy or cookie policies. Overall, the site provides good content and business credibility but requires urgent improvements in security and privacy to meet modern standards.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
0/ 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

  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
50
Security headers
15
Email security
50
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
0
Average
50

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 association operates as a non-profit entity focused on education and legal scholarship. Its market position is strong within the Finnish legal academic community, leveraging its historical legacy and professional publications. Revenue streams likely include membership fees, publication sales, and grant funding. The website links to partner domains such as journal.fi and edition.fi, indicating collaboration within the legal publishing ecosystem. The business model emphasizes community engagement, knowledge dissemination, and support for legal education. Growth indicators include active event scheduling and updated publication content. The partnership ecosystem includes academic journals and foundations like Laitisen säätiö.

Security posture

The website's security maturity is low due to the lack of HTTPS, absence of security headers, and no evidence of incident response or security policies. The invalid SSL certificate exposes users to potential man-in-the-middle attacks and undermines trust. No GDPR compliance indicators or data protection officer contact information are present, which may pose regulatory risks. The site uses common WordPress plugins but does not demonstrate advanced security practices. Incident response readiness and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms are not found, indicating limited security culture. Immediate remediation is necessary to protect user data and maintain compliance.

Recommendations

  1. Obtain and install a valid SSL/TLS certificate to enable HTTPS across the entire site.
  2. Implement and publish comprehensive privacy and cookie policies to comply with GDPR.
  3. Add HTTP security headers such as HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options.
  4. Establish a security policy page and incident response contact channels (e.g., security@ email).
  5. Regularly update WordPress core, themes, and plugins to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Technical notes

Notes

The website is hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure with a WordPress 6.8.1 CMS and uses jQuery 2.2.4 and Bootstrap 3.3.6 for frontend components. Slider Revolution and Events Manager plugins provide interactive features. The site suffers from slow load times (~8.8 seconds) and a large number of resources (56). Mobile optimization is good, but accessibility and SEO optimizations are basic. No structured metadata (JSON-LD or Open Graph) is present, limiting search engine understanding. The absence of modern TLS protocols and security headers indicates technical debt and security risks. Performance and security improvements are recommended to enhance user experience and trust.
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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