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Security report for ohchr.org

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) · Government · N/a

Medium risk. 4 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

70/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) operates a comprehensive and authoritative website serving as the primary digital platform for human rights advocacy, education, and information dissemination globally. The site targets a diverse audience including governments, civil society, educators, journalists, and the general public, providing extensive resources, news, and reports related to human rights. The website reflects the organization's status as a leading UN entity with consistent branding and professional content. Technically, the website is built on Drupal 10, leveraging modern web technologies and analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Mouseflow. The site demonstrates good performance, excellent mobile optimization, and accessibility features, ensuring a positive user experience. Security posture is strong with HTTPS enforced and secure form implementations, though some security headers could be enhanced. From a security and compliance perspective, the site maintains good privacy practices with a comprehensive privacy policy and cookie notice, though explicit consent mechanisms for cookies are not evident. No incident response or vulnerability disclosure information is publicly available, representing an area for improvement. The WHOIS data is unavailable due to privacy protection, but the domain is a well-known official UN domain, supporting high legitimacy. Overall, the website is a high-quality, trustworthy resource for human rights information with a strong business credibility and technical foundation. Strategic recommendations include enhancing security headers, publishing incident response and vulnerability disclosure policies, and improving cookie consent mechanisms to further strengthen compliance and trust.

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NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
68/ 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

4 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 Content-Security-Policy header

      Controls resources the browser is allowed to load

      What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application

      • ASVS V3.4.3
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none';…

  2. GDPR outside view

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

    • 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 SSL Key Length

      SSL certificate uses 256-bit key, which is considered weak

      What to do: Use at least 2048-bit RSA or 256-bit ECC key

      • CWE-326
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • Mozilla TLS: Mozilla Server Side TLS 6.0 intermediate: rsa_key_size 2048

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  • 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
75
Security headers
40
Email security
60
DNS health
75
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
68
Average
70

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

Technical appendix

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

Business context

Business profile

OHCHR holds a unique position as the UN's primary human rights entity, operating a non-profit model focused on advocacy, education, and monitoring. The website supports this mission by providing extensive resources and engagement opportunities. The organization benefits from strong global recognition and partnerships within the UN system. The digital presence is mature, supporting multiple languages and diverse user groups. Revenue streams are primarily from UN funding and donations, with a transparent donation call on the site. Growth indicators include active news updates and engagement with topical human rights issues worldwide.

Security posture

The website exhibits a mature security posture with HTTPS enforced and secure Drupal-based forms. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected. However, the absence of certain security headers like Content-Security-Policy and explicit incident response contacts suggests room for improvement. The site lacks a public vulnerability disclosure program or security.txt file, which could enhance transparency and responsiveness. Privacy compliance is good, with a clear privacy policy and cookie notice, though cookie consent mechanisms could be more explicit. Overall, the security maturity is solid but could benefit from formalized incident response and disclosure practices.

Recommendations

  1. Implement comprehensive security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, and X-Frame-Options to enhance protection against common web attacks.
  2. Publish an incident response policy and provide clear contact channels for security issues to improve transparency and trust.
  3. Introduce a formal vulnerability disclosure program and security.txt file to encourage responsible reporting of security issues.
  4. Enhance cookie consent mechanisms to comply fully with GDPR and other privacy regulations, ensuring explicit user consent.
  5. Regularly audit third-party scripts and analytics tools to minimize potential security risks and ensure compliance with privacy standards.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Description
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as OHCHR, is the leading United Nations entity in the field of human rights, with a unique mandate to promote and protect all human rights for all people.
Key services
Human rights advocacy, Information dissemination, Education and training, Reporting and monitoring human rights violations, Supporting human rights mechanisms and treaty bodies
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
Drupal 10, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Mouseflow
Frameworks
Drupal CMS
Performance
moderate
Mobile
excellent
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • Use of secure forms with CSRF tokens (Drupal forms)

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics, Mouseflow
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Mouseflow
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is a professionally maintained UN entity site focused on human rights.
  2. Content is comprehensive, well-structured, and multilingual support is indicated though currently only English is fully updated.
  3. No signs of malicious or suspicious content.
  4. Use of modern web technologies and analytics tools.
  5. No exposed sensitive information or security warnings.
  6. WHOIS data unavailable but domain is known official UN domain.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on Drupal 10, a modern and widely supported CMS, ensuring a robust and scalable platform. It integrates Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Mouseflow for analytics and user behavior tracking. The site is mobile-optimized with responsive design and accessibility features, providing a good user experience across devices. Performance is moderate, with room for optimization in loading times. The use of structured data (JSON-LD) enhances SEO and content discoverability. No hosting provider details were identified, but the site uses HTTPS with a strong SSL configuration. Technical debt appears low, though security header implementation could be improved.
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

Earlier scans of this domain

  1. 67/100Medium33 findingsView report
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