Plant Hire Guide · Transportation · United Kingdom
Medium risk. 4 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.
Plant Hire Guide is a well-established UK-based online directory specializing in plant hire and construction equipment rental and sales. With over 57 years of presence in the construction industry, it serves as a comprehensive resource for construction professionals seeking machinery, equipment, and related services. The website offers extensive categorized listings covering a wide range of construction and plant hire equipment, targeting businesses and professionals in the UK construction sector. Technically, the website is built on WordPress 6.8.1 with a variety of modern analytics and marketing tools including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Adobe Analytics. It uses Amazon AWS for asset hosting and integrates Google Maps API for location services. The site is mobile-optimized with good SEO practices, although some technical debt is noted with the use of an outdated jQuery version. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and employs Google reCAPTCHA v3 for form protection. However, it lacks explicit security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options, and uses an outdated jQuery version that may expose it to vulnerabilities. Privacy compliance is basic, with a cookie consent mechanism present but no clearly linked privacy policy or terms of service pages. WHOIS data for the domain is unavailable due to a domain naming rules violation, which raises some concerns about domain legitimacy, although the website content and business presence appear credible. Overall, the website presents a professional and trustworthy front for its niche market but would benefit from updating its technical stack, enhancing security headers, and improving privacy policy transparency to strengthen its security posture and compliance. The domain registration inconsistency should be investigated to ensure full legitimacy and trustworthiness.
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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.
4 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.
Controls resources the browser is allowed to load
What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies
What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit
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.
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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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.
Retrieved 2026-10-25
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