OpenAthens · Technology · United Kingdom
Low risk. No critical or high findings.
OpenAthens is a well-established leader in authentication services, specializing in secure, remote access solutions for organizations worldwide, particularly in academic, healthcare, and corporate research sectors. With over 30 years of experience and a strong market presence, OpenAthens offers a suite of products including personalized single sign-on solutions and participation in global identity federations. The company operates under the parent organization Jisc and serves a broad international audience with trusted technology solutions. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with modern performance and SEO optimizations, leveraging tools like Google Tag Manager, reCAPTCHA, and Rollbar for analytics and security. The site demonstrates excellent mobile optimization, accessibility, and content quality. Security posture is strong with HTTPS enforcement and GDPR-compliant cookie management, though explicit security headers and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms could be improved. Overall, the domain's privacy-protected WHOIS data is typical for security-conscious businesses and does not detract from the site's legitimacy. The website is professional, trustworthy, and well-positioned in its niche.
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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.
No critical or high findings. These medium findings are worth fixing next.
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.
Controls browser features and APIs
What to do: Implement a Permissions-Policy to restrict feature access
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
DKIM adds cryptographic signatures to emails
What to do: Configure DKIM with your email provider
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
SSL certificate expires in 82 days
What to do: Plan SSL certificate renewal
DNS sends visitors and email to the right servers. Misconfigured records can cause outages or let someone redirect your traffic.
DNSSEC is not configured for this domain
What to do: Enable DNSSEC to prevent DNS spoofing attacks
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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.
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Not counted
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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Leaked records that mention openathens.net, from OffSeq Breach.
483 subdomains affected
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
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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