RAND Corporation · Non-profit · United States
Low risk. 4 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, SSL/TLS and 1 other check.
RAND Corporation is a large, well-established nonprofit research organization founded in 1948, focused on providing objective research and public policy analysis across a broad range of sectors including health, education, national security, and international affairs. The organization operates multiple research divisions both in the U.S. and internationally, serving government agencies, policymakers, and the public with evidence-based insights and solutions. The website reflects this mission with comprehensive content, expert commentary, and resources such as newsletters and podcasts. Technically, the website is built on Adobe Experience Manager, leveraging modern web technologies including Adobe DTM for tag management, Google reCAPTCHA for form security, and Chartbeat for analytics. The site is mobile-optimized, accessible, and SEO-friendly, with good performance and clear navigation. Privacy and terms of service are well documented, though cookie policy visibility could be improved. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS, uses reCAPTCHA to protect forms, and employs Adobe's tag management system. However, explicit security headers are not clearly visible in the HTML, and there is no published security policy or vulnerability disclosure program. No critical vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected. The WHOIS data is unavailable due to query failure or privacy protection, but the website's legitimacy is supported by its consistent branding, professional content, and trust signals. Overall, RAND.org presents a trustworthy, professional, and secure online presence appropriate for a major nonprofit research institution. Strategic improvements could include publishing a dedicated security policy, enhancing cookie consent mechanisms, and adding a vulnerability disclosure channel to further strengthen trust 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.
4 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
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
DNS sends visitors and email to the right servers. Misconfigured records can cause outages or let someone redirect your traffic.
Subdomain www.rand.org points to unregistered service d1tq5nnzqc83gz.cloudfront.net
What to do: Remove or fix CNAME record to prevent subdomain takeover
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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.
Counted in this score
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 rand.org, from OffSeq Breach.
23 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.
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