Österbottens välfärdsområde · Government · Finland
Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Email security and 1 other check.
Österbottens välfärdsområde is a regional government welfare organization in Finland providing comprehensive health, social, psychosocial, and emergency services to the Ostrobothnia region. The website serves as a digital portal offering access to various services including digital appointment booking, social welfare guidance, and emergency contacts. The organization is positioned as a key public sector entity with a strong regional presence and a focus on accessible, user-friendly digital services. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with modern integrations such as Google Tag Manager, ReadSpeaker for accessibility, and an embedded chatbot for user assistance. The site is well-optimized for mobile and accessibility standards, reflecting a mature digital infrastructure. Security posture is solid with HTTPS enforced and cookie consent mechanisms in place, though there is room for improvement in security headers and vulnerability disclosure practices. Overall, the domain registration data aligns well with the website's identity, indicating a legitimate and trustworthy entity. Strategic recommendations include enhancing security headers, publishing a security.txt file, and continuous monitoring of third-party scripts to maintain security and compliance.
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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.
6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements
What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures
GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy
What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
Detected services: Google Analytics, Facebook, LinkedIn
What to do: Document all third-party data sharing in your privacy policy
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
DMARC provides email authentication and reporting
What to do: Add DMARC record: "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc@yourdomain.com"
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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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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.
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