Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG operates a professional status page at mittwald-status.de, providing real-time system status and incident history primarily for its hosting and cloud service customers. The website is well-branded, consistent, and targets its existing customer base with clear service availability information. The technical infrastructure leverages Cloudflare DNS and nameservers, a valid SSL certificate, and the Statuspal platform for status management, indicating a moderate level of digital maturity. Performance is moderate with good mobile optimization but lacks advanced SEO and accessibility features. Security posture is adequate with HTTPS, SPF, and DMARC configured, but improvements such as enabling HSTS, DNSSEC, and security headers are recommended. The absence of a cookie consent mechanism and vulnerability disclosure policy suggests room for enhanced privacy and security compliance. Overall, the website is trustworthy and professionally maintained, with minor technical and security enhancements advised to strengthen its posture.
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.
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 Cookie Policy found
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
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 X-Frame-Options header
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
This scan found 23 issues across 6 checks. Monitoring re-runs those checks daily, emails you when something material changes and records each fix, so you can show progress.
Daily monitoring
Recommended
€25per month
TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Security headers
GDPR and NIS2 posture
Exposed services
Third-party trackers
Security score drift
Email alerts on material changes and an exportable JSON history of every change.
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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
70
Email security
75
DNS health
65
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
18
Average
66
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 mittwald-status.de, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
Breach holds no records for mittwald-status.de right now. New leaks arrive continuously, so monitoring on Breach alerts you if that changes.
Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
Mittwald is positioned as a medium-sized technology company specializing in hosting, managed servers, and cloud services in Germany. Its business model focuses on providing reliable infrastructure and customer support, evidenced by detailed status reporting and incident transparency. The company maintains a clear brand presence and consistent communication channels, including a dedicated support email. While no explicit partnerships or subsidiaries are listed, the use of Cloudflare and Statuspal indicates integration with established technology providers. The company targets business customers requiring stable hosting solutions, with a focus on uptime and service reliability. Growth indicators include frequent planned maintenance and transparent incident management, reflecting operational maturity.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a baseline security maturity with HTTPS enforced via a valid SSL certificate and DNS records configured with SPF and DMARC for email protection. However, the lack of DNSSEC, HSTS, and security headers reduces the overall security robustness. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected, and no subdomain takeover risks exist. The absence of a security policy, incident response contacts, and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms indicates limited formal security governance publicly visible. Compliance with GDPR is supported by a comprehensive privacy policy, but cookie consent mechanisms are missing. Incident response readiness could be improved by publishing dedicated security contacts. Overall, the security posture is functional but could benefit from adopting additional best practices and formal policies.
Recommendations
Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with includeSubDomains and preload to enhance HTTPS security.
Implement security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options to mitigate common web attacks.
Activate DNSSEC to protect DNS integrity and prevent spoofing.
Publish a security.txt file to facilitate vulnerability disclosure and improve transparency.
Add a cookie consent banner/mechanism to comply with privacy regulations and improve user trust.
Technical notes
Notes
The website uses a modern HTML5 and CSS3 structure with JavaScript for dynamic content, hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure with DNS and nameservers managed by Cloudflare. The status page is powered by Statuspal, a specialized platform for status and incident management. Performance is moderate with a page load time of approximately 4.6 seconds and a small number of resources. Mobile optimization is good, but accessibility and SEO features are basic. No CMS is explicitly detected, suggesting a custom or platform-based implementation. The use of hCaptcha indicates bot mitigation efforts. Technical risks include missing security headers and lack of DNSSEC, which could be addressed to reduce attack surface and improve resilience.
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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