Ministerium für Schule und Bildung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen · Government · Germany
Medium risk. 5 critical or high findings in Email security, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.
The website www.schulministerium.nrw is the official digital presence of the Ministry for Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It serves as a comprehensive information portal for education-related topics, school organization, legal frameworks, press releases, and public services. The site targets students, educators, school administrators, parents, and the general public interested in education policies and resources within NRW. It is positioned as a key government resource with authoritative content and official branding. Technically, the website is built on the Drupal CMS platform, utilizing modern web technologies such as Bootstrap for responsive design, Matomo for privacy-conscious analytics, and Hyphenopoly for text hyphenation. The site demonstrates good mobile optimization, accessibility features, and SEO practices. It employs HTTPS with strong SSL configuration and includes a cookie consent mechanism compliant with GDPR requirements. From a security perspective, the site shows a mature posture with HTTPS enforcement, cookie consent, and no visible vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data. However, explicit security headers like X-Frame-Options and X-Content-Type-Options are not clearly detected and could be improved. The WHOIS data is privacy protected, which is somewhat unusual for a government domain but does not detract from the site's legitimacy given the official content and domain namespace (.nrw). Overall, the website is a trustworthy, well-maintained government portal with high content quality and good security and privacy practices. It poses low risk and serves its public service mission effectively.
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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.
5 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
Domain is vulnerable to email spoofing
What to do: Implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC immediately
SPF helps prevent email spoofing
What to do: Add SPF record: "v=spf1 include:_spf.yourmailprovider.com ~all"
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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