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Security report for spk.gov.tr

Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu · Finance · Turkey

Partial score · DNS & email only

47/100

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

Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu (SPK) is the official Capital Markets Board of Turkey, serving as the primary regulatory authority overseeing capital markets, investment firms, and financial instruments within the country. The website provides comprehensive information and services targeted at investors, companies, and financial institutions, including regulatory frameworks, bulletins, licensing exams, and investor education. The site is well-branded, consistent, and professionally maintained, reflecting its authoritative government status. Technically, the website employs modern web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries including Swiper.js for carousels and Tobii.js for lightbox functionality, and integrates Google Fonts and Google Tag Manager for analytics. The site is mobile-optimized with good navigation and SEO practices, although accessibility features could be enhanced. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS with an excellent SSL configuration and follows best practices like opening external links in new tabs and avoiding exposed sensitive data. However, it lacks explicit security policies, incident response contacts, and a cookie consent mechanism, which are areas for improvement to enhance compliance and user trust. Overall, the website is a credible and authoritative source for capital market regulation in Turkey, with a strong business credibility score and good technical implementation. Strategic recommendations include adding privacy and security policy pages, implementing cookie consent, and enhancing accessibility and security headers to further strengthen the site's security posture and compliance.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
10/ 100 · Critical
Checks completed
6of 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

6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • Critical

      No HTTPS encryption

      GDPR requires appropriate security measures for personal data

      What to do: Implement SSL/TLS certificate for HTTPS

    • High

      No Privacy Policy found

      GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy

      What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently

    • 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

  2. SSL/TLS

    TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.

    • Critical

      No HTTPS Encryption

      Website does not use HTTPS encryption, making all data transmission vulnerable to interception

      What to do: Implement SSL/TLS certificate and redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS

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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
0
Email security
60
DNS health
65
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
10
Average
47

Not counted

  • Security headers: did not complete in this scan.
  • 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

Technical appendix

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

Business context

Business profile

SPK holds a dominant position as Turkey's government regulator for capital markets, providing oversight, licensing, and investor protection. Its business model is non-commercial, focused on regulatory enforcement and public service. The website supports multiple stakeholders including investors, companies, and financial institutions by offering regulatory documents, bulletins, and e-services. The presence of multiple official partner domains indicates a strong ecosystem collaboration. The site’s content and services reflect a mature organization with a large operational scale and significant market influence in Turkey's financial sector.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a mature security posture with HTTPS enforced and no visible vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data. However, the absence of a published security policy, incident response contact information, and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms indicates gaps in transparency and readiness. The lack of cookie consent mechanisms also suggests partial GDPR compliance. Security headers are not explicitly detected, which could be improved to mitigate common web threats. Overall, the site is secure but could benefit from enhanced security governance and compliance documentation.

Recommendations

  1. Publish a dedicated security policy and incident response contact page to improve transparency and user trust.
  2. Implement a cookie consent banner/mechanism to comply with GDPR and other privacy regulations.
  3. Add a security.txt file or vulnerability disclosure policy to encourage responsible reporting of security issues.
  4. Enhance accessibility features to meet WCAG standards and improve usability for all users.
  5. Deploy additional security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Legal name
Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu
Description
Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu (SPK) is the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, a government regulatory and supervisory authority overseeing capital markets, investment firms, and financial instruments in Turkey. It provides regulatory frameworks, investor protection, market supervision, and promotes financial literacy.
Key services
Regulation and supervision of capital markets, Investor education and protection, Publication of bulletins and reports, Licensing and examination of market professionals, Providing e-services and data platforms
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Swiper.js (carousel), Google Fonts, Tobii.js (lightbox), Google Tag Manager
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • External links open in new tabs
  • PDF links open in new tabs
  • No visible exposed credentials or sensitive data

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager)
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Official government website for Turkey's Capital Markets Board.
  2. Content is in Turkish with some English elements.
  3. No visible privacy or cookie banners despite GDPR relevance.
  4. No explicit security policy or incident response contact found.
  5. Good use of HTTPS and modern JavaScript libraries.
  6. Contact information is clearly provided in footer.
  7. Social media presence on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram.
  8. No signs of suspicious or malicious content.
  9. No WAF or blocking mechanisms detected.
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses a custom or unknown CMS with modern front-end technologies including Swiper.js for interactive carousels and Tobii.js for image lightbox functionality. Google Fonts are used for typography, and Google Tag Manager is integrated for analytics and tracking. The site is mobile responsive with good SEO meta tags and structured navigation. Performance is moderate, with potential for optimization in loading speed and accessibility compliance. No legacy or vulnerable libraries were detected, indicating a well-maintained technical stack.
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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