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Security report for niortmaraispoitevin.com

Office de tourisme de Niort · Hospitality · France

Medium risk. 5 critical or high findings in Security headers and GDPR outside view.

Security score

68/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Niort Marais Poitevin Tourisme operates as the official tourism office for the Niort Marais Poitevin region in France, providing comprehensive information and services related to accommodations, activities, events, and local experiences. The website serves as a key digital touchpoint for tourists and visitors, offering rich content, destination guides, and booking options. The organization positions itself as a regional tourism promoter with a strong local presence and partnerships. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with a modern plugin ecosystem including Yoast SEO, Cloudflare CDN, and various custom Iris Interactive plugins. While the site is well-structured, mobile-optimized, and SEO-friendly, it suffers from a critical security shortfall due to the absence of a valid SSL certificate and HTTPS support, exposing visitors to potential risks. Privacy compliance is addressed with a clear privacy and cookie policy, including consent mechanisms. Social media integration and trust signals are strong, enhancing business credibility. Overall, the site is professional and content-rich but requires urgent security improvements to protect user data and maintain trust.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
25/ 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

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
  2. GDPR outside view

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

    • 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

    • 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

    • High

      Third-party services without privacy policy

      Detected services: Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

      What to do: Document all third-party data sharing in your privacy policy

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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
85
Security headers
40
Email security
75
DNS health
80
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
25
Average
68

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
3
Employees
0
Customers
3
Third parties
0
Weak passwords
0%

2 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

The tourism office targets visitors interested in exploring the natural and cultural heritage of the Niort Marais Poitevin area, focusing on hospitality, leisure, and local experiences. The business model revolves around destination marketing, information dissemination, and facilitating bookings for accommodations and activities. Partnerships with local businesses and related domains like niort-seminaires.com indicate a collaborative ecosystem. The website's content strategy includes blogs, event calendars, and curated destination highlights, supporting visitor engagement and conversion. Growth potential lies in enhancing digital security and expanding online booking capabilities. The organization maintains a medium-sized operational scale with a regional focus.

Security posture

The current security posture is weak due to the lack of HTTPS and valid SSL certificates, which is a critical vulnerability exposing users to data interception and man-in-the-middle attacks. Although some security headers like Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options are present, the absence of modern TLS protocols, HSTS, and OCSP stapling reduces overall security effectiveness. No explicit security policies or incident response contacts are published, indicating limited formal security governance. The site uses secure cookie flags and Cloudflare CDN, which are positive but insufficient to mitigate the major SSL deficiency. Compliance with GDPR is supported by privacy and cookie policies, but security best practices need urgent enhancement.

Recommendations

  1. Obtain and deploy a valid SSL/TLS certificate to enable HTTPS across the entire site immediately.
  2. Enable TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 protocols and disable insecure legacy protocols.
  3. Implement HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with includeSubDomains and preload directives.
  4. Enable OCSP stapling to improve certificate revocation checking performance and security.
  5. Publish a formal security policy and incident response contact information to improve transparency and readiness.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on WordPress CMS with a robust set of plugins including Yoast SEO for search engine optimization, Iris Interactive plugins for tourism-specific features, and GTranslate for multilingual support. Hosting is via Cloudflare CDN, providing performance and some security benefits. The site is mobile-optimized and accessible with good navigation and rich multimedia content. However, performance metrics indicate slow loading times, possibly due to unoptimized resources or lack of caching. The absence of SSL negatively impacts both security and SEO rankings. The technical stack is modern but requires updates to security configurations and performance tuning 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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