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Security report for rhc-platform.org

European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling · Energy · N/a

Medium risk. 7 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 2 other checks.

Security score

53/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC) is a specialized platform that unites stakeholders from biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, and heat pump sectors to promote renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling. The platform serves as a collaborative hub for experts, investors, and policymakers, offering strategic guidance, policy support, and project acceleration services. The website reflects a medium-sized, well-branded organization with a clear focus on the energy sector in Europe, founded around 2019. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React and uses Yoast SEO for optimization. It integrates Google Analytics for visitor tracking and employs HTTPS with good SSL configuration. The site demonstrates moderate performance and good mobile optimization, though accessibility features are basic. The technical stack is modern but could benefit from enhanced security headers and more comprehensive privacy compliance. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and uses nonce tokens for AJAX requests, indicating some security best practices. However, it lacks explicit security headers and does not provide clear privacy or cookie policies, which are critical for GDPR compliance. The absence of WHOIS registrant data reduces domain trustworthiness, though the website content and structured data suggest legitimacy. Overall, the site is functional, professional, and relevant to its sector but should improve privacy disclosures, security headers, and WHOIS transparency to enhance trust and compliance. Strategic recommendations include implementing comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with consent mechanisms, adding security headers, publishing incident response contacts, and regularly auditing third-party scripts.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
58/ 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

7 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 X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

      What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"

    • 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 Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

    • 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

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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
72
Security headers
15
Email security
75
DNS health
75
Network security
20
GDPR outside view
58
Average
53

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

Breach exposure

Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.

Dark web exposure

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Leaked records that mention rhc-platform.org, from OffSeq Breach.

No leaked records found

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Technical appendix

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

Business context

Business profile

RHC positions itself as a key European platform in the renewable heating and cooling energy sector, focusing on stakeholder collaboration and technology innovation. Its business model is non-profit and knowledge-sharing oriented, targeting experts, investors, and policy makers. The platform offers services such as technology panels, horizontal working groups, policy support, and project acceleration. The presence of structured data and social media links indicates an active engagement strategy. The lack of explicit contact details and WHOIS transparency suggests room for improvement in business credibility and openness. The platform's partnerships and ecosystem are implied but not explicitly detailed on the site.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a moderate security posture with HTTPS enforced and use of nonce tokens for AJAX security. However, it lacks important security headers like Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options, which could mitigate common web attacks. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected in the HTML content. The absence of explicit privacy and cookie policies, as well as incident response contacts, indicates compliance gaps, especially under GDPR and NIS2 frameworks. The WHOIS data unavailability is a concern for domain legitimacy verification. Overall, the security maturity is moderate but requires enhancements in policy transparency and header implementation.

Recommendations

  1. Implement comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with explicit user consent mechanisms to ensure GDPR compliance.
  2. Add essential security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options to strengthen web security.
  3. Publish clear contact information for security incidents and establish an incident response process.
  4. Regularly audit and update third-party scripts and plugins to mitigate vulnerabilities.
  5. Improve WHOIS transparency or provide verified domain registration information to enhance trustworthiness.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling
Description
Brings together stakeholders from biomass, geothermal, solar thermal and heat pump sectors to define a common strategy for increasing renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling.
Key services
Stakeholder collaboration, Technology panels, Horizontal working groups, Policy support, Project accelerator and funding repository
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress, React, Yoast SEO, Google Analytics, jQuery, Bootstrap, Dropzone, UpdraftCentral
Frameworks
Yoast SEO
Platforms
WordPress
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
80/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • Use of nonce for AJAX requests

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Marketing tools
Google Site Kit
Transparency
basic

Site quality

Design
good
User experience
good
Content relevance
good
Navigation
good
Professionalism
good
Trustworthiness
moderate

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content and navigation.
  2. No explicit privacy, cookie, or terms of service pages detected in the provided HTML.
  3. No direct contact emails or phone numbers found in the HTML content.
  4. Social media links to official Twitter (@EUREC_Info) and LinkedIn pages present.
  5. Website uses HTTPS with Google Analytics and modern JavaScript frameworks.
  6. No security.txt or vulnerability disclosure information found.
  7. WHOIS data is unavailable, limiting domain trust verification.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on WordPress CMS with React and Yoast SEO plugin, indicating a modern and SEO-optimized infrastructure. It uses Google Analytics for visitor tracking and integrates several JavaScript libraries including jQuery, Bootstrap, and Dropzone. The site is served over HTTPS with good SSL configuration. Performance is moderate, with good mobile responsiveness and basic accessibility features. The technical stack is current but could benefit from enhanced security headers and more robust privacy compliance mechanisms. Hosting provider details are not discernible from the provided data.
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

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