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Security report for marinecorpstimes.com

Marine Corps Times · Media · N/a

Medium risk. 5 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

75/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Marine Corps Times is a specialized media publication focused on delivering news and information about the U.S. Marine Corps, military affairs, and the Department of Defense. It holds a strong market position as a trusted source for Marines, veterans, and military stakeholders, offering news articles, subscription magazines, and special features. The website demonstrates a professional design with good content quality and consistent branding, targeting a niche military audience. Technically, the site employs modern web technologies including Google Tag Manager, Prebid.js for ads, and AWS Cloudfront for content delivery, ensuring moderate performance and good mobile optimization. Security posture is solid with HTTPS enforced and use of performance/security monitoring scripts, though explicit security headers and privacy policies are not clearly visible in the provided content. The absence of WHOIS data for the domain is a notable anomaly, reducing trust slightly, but the website's content and external references support its legitimacy. Overall, the site is safe, professional, and relevant to its audience, but could improve transparency around privacy and security policies.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
70/ 100 · Medium
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

5 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. 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"

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • 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

    • 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

  3. SSL/TLS

    TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.

    • High

      Weak Protocols Supported

      Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1

      What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions

      • CWE-327
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V12.1.1

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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
62
Security headers
30
Email security
100
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
70
Average
75

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

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Dark web exposure

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Total records
11
Employees
0
Customers
11
Third parties
0
Weak passwords
9%

3 subdomains affected

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Technical appendix

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

Business context

Business profile

Marine Corps Times operates within the media sector, focusing on military news and information. Its business model revolves around content publication, advertising, and subscription services. The site is part of a broader network of military news outlets including Army Times, Navy Times, and Air Force Times, indicating a strong partnership ecosystem. The target customers are active-duty Marines, veterans, military families, and defense community members. The publication leverages multiple advertising networks and tracking technologies to monetize its content. Growth indicators include active content updates and special project features. Strategic observations suggest opportunities to enhance privacy compliance and security transparency to strengthen user trust and regulatory adherence.

Security posture

The website employs HTTPS, ensuring encrypted communications, and integrates performance and analytics tools such as Boomerang and Google Tag Manager. However, explicit security headers like Content Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), and X-Frame-Options were not detected in the provided HTML snapshot, which could be improved. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were identified. The site lacks visible privacy and cookie policies, which is a compliance gap. Incident response and security contact information are not evident, limiting transparency. Overall, the security maturity is moderate to good, with room for enhancement in policy visibility and header implementation to meet best practices and regulatory requirements.

Recommendations

  1. Implement and prominently display comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with user consent mechanisms to improve compliance and user trust.
  2. Add and enforce security headers such as CSP, HSTS, and X-Frame-Options to strengthen protection against common web attacks.
  3. Provide clear contact information for security incidents and designate an incident response contact channel.
  4. Regularly audit and update third-party scripts and advertising technologies to mitigate potential vulnerabilities.
  5. Enhance accessibility features to comply with standards and improve user experience for all visitors.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Marine Corps Times
Description
The Marine Corps Times is the oldest and most trusted source for news and information about U.S. Marines, the military and the DoD.
Key services
News articles, Subscription magazine, Military benefits guides, Special projects and features
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
Google Tag Manager, Prebid.js, Boomerang (performance monitoring), jQuery 3.7.1, Google Fonts, Typekit Fonts, DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), Cloudfront CDN
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Use of CSP and other security scripts not explicitly detected but likely present

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Tag Manager, Boomerang
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Ad networks
Google DoubleClick, AdRecover
Tracking pixels
Boomerang, Queryly
Marketing tools
Queryly
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is a professional military news publication with extensive content and structured navigation.
  2. No WHOIS data available, which is unusual and reduces trust slightly.
  3. No explicit privacy or cookie policies detected in the provided HTML snapshot.
  4. Use of multiple third-party scripts and ad networks indicates monetization and tracking.
  5. No security incident or contact information found on the main page.
  6. Content is safe and appropriate for general audiences interested in military news.
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses a modern technology stack including Google Tag Manager for analytics, Prebid.js for header bidding in advertising, and AWS Cloudfront as a CDN for content delivery. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts and Adobe Typekit, ensuring consistent typography. The site uses jQuery 3.7.1 and integrates multiple ad networks including Google DoubleClick and AdRecover. Performance monitoring is implemented via Boomerang. The site is mobile-optimized with responsive design elements. However, no CMS was explicitly detected. The technical infrastructure supports a medium-sized media publication with moderate performance and good SEO practices. Opportunities exist to improve security headers and privacy compliance to reduce technical debt and regulatory risk.
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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