The National Archives · Government · United Kingdom
Medium risk. 3 critical or high findings in Security headers and SSL/TLS.
The National Archives is the official UK government archive and publisher for England and Wales, providing access to over 1,000 years of historical government records. It serves a broad audience including researchers, students, government officials, and the general public interested in UK history. The organization operates as a non-ministerial government department, offering services such as record preservation, research assistance, educational resources, exhibitions, and professional guidance in information management. The website reflects its authoritative position with consistent branding, comprehensive content, and clear navigation. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with a modern but somewhat legacy technology stack including jQuery 1.11.3 and Modernizr. It employs SEO best practices via the Yoast SEO plugin and includes cookie consent mechanisms compliant with GDPR. The site is mobile-optimized and accessible, with good performance and SEO scores. Hosting details are not explicit, but HTTPS is enforced, ensuring secure communications. From a security perspective, the site demonstrates good practices such as HTTPS enforcement and cookie consent management. However, no explicit security headers were detected in the HTML, and the use of an older jQuery version could pose potential risks. There is no publicly visible security policy or incident response contact, and no security.txt file was found. The WHOIS data is unavailable, likely due to privacy protections common for government domains, but the domain's .gov.uk TLD and content strongly support legitimacy. Overall, the website is professional, trustworthy, and secure with minor areas for improvement in security header implementation and technology updates. It poses low risk and effectively serves its government archival mission.
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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.
3 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
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"
Controls resources the browser is allowed to load
What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1
What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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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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