Associazione Marchi Storici d'Italia is a non-profit organization founded in 2021 to represent and protect the interests of historic Italian companies and trademarks. The website serves as a platform to promote the heritage and active memory of Made in Italy brands, targeting historic brand owners, stakeholders, and the general public interested in Italian industrial heritage. The association organizes events, publishes reports, and advocates for the protection and valorization of historic trademarks. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with multilingual support via WPML, uses reputable plugins for GDPR compliance and SEO, and hosts images on Cloudinary. The site is well-structured, mobile-optimized, and provides a good user experience with clear navigation and professional design. Security-wise, the site uses HTTPS with a good SSL configuration but lacks advanced security headers and DNSSEC. There is no visible security policy or incident response information, and no vulnerability disclosure mechanism is present. Overall, the site is trustworthy and professional, with good privacy compliance and business credibility, but could improve security posture and transparency around security policies.
Scanned ·
NIS2 and GDPR posture
GDPR outside view
85/ 100 · Low
Checks completed
7of 7
NIS2 Art. 21(2)
a(a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
b(b) Incident handling: One indicator
c(c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
d(d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
e(e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
f(f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
g(g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
h(h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
i(i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
j(j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside
Partly checked
One indicator
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
5 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
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"
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TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Security headers
GDPR and NIS2 posture
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
15
Email security
70
DNS health
75
Network security
40
GDPR outside view
85
Average
60
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
Breach exposure
Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.
Dark web exposure
Add-on
Leaked records that mention marchistorici.com, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
The association occupies a niche market position as a representative body for historic Italian brands, focusing on heritage protection and promotion. Its business model is non-profit, relying on membership and advocacy. The target audience includes historic brand owners, Italian companies with long-standing trademarks, and cultural heritage stakeholders. The website content and events indicate active engagement with the Italian manufacturing and non-profit sectors. The association leverages partnerships and media presence to enhance visibility. Growth indicators include recent membership additions and event organization. The business is small-sized, Italy-based, and founded recently in 2021, consistent with domain registration data.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a moderate security maturity level with HTTPS enforced and GDPR compliance mechanisms in place. However, the absence of DNSSEC, limited security headers, and lack of a security policy or incident response contact reduce the overall security posture. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the HTML content. The site uses reputable plugins but would benefit from implementing a security.txt file and enhancing HTTP security headers. The cookie consent mechanism is robust, supporting GDPR compliance. Incident response readiness and vulnerability disclosure are not evident, which could be a compliance gap.
Recommendations
Enable DNSSEC on the domain to enhance DNS security and prevent spoofing.
Implement a security.txt file to provide clear vulnerability disclosure and incident response contacts.
Add and configure HTTP security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options.
Regularly audit and update WordPress core, themes, and plugins to mitigate vulnerabilities.
Publish a clear security policy and incident response procedure on the website to improve transparency and trust.
Site observations
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
Company
Associazione Marchi Storici d'Italia
Description
L'Associazione Marchi Storici d'Italia è stata fondata per rappresentare gli interessi delle imprese con l'obiettivo di tutelare le aziende storiche italiane.
Key services
Representation of historic brands, Protection and promotion of Italian historic companies, Organizing events and media communications, Providing reports and advocacy
Website is a professional association site for historic Italian brands.
Content is rich, well-structured, and multilingual (Italian and English).
Good implementation of GDPR and cookie consent mechanisms.
No signs of malicious or suspicious activity.
Use of reputable WordPress plugins and CDN for performance.
No visible security policy or incident response information.
No terms of service page found.
No explicit vulnerability disclosure or security.txt file.
Technical notes
Notes
The website is built on a modern WordPress CMS platform with multilingual capabilities via WPML. It uses jQuery and reputable plugins for GDPR compliance (Complianz) and SEO (SmartCrawl). Images are served via Cloudinary CDN, improving load times. The site is mobile-optimized with responsive design and good SEO meta tags including Open Graph and JSON-LD structured data. Performance is moderate, with some room for improvement in accessibility features. The technical stack is standard for professional association websites, with no critical technical debt observed. Hosting is managed by Register SPA, an Italian registrar, consistent with the business location.
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.
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