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Security report for tencate.com

Royal TenCate · Manufacturing · Netherlands

High risk. 7 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, SSL/TLS and 1 other check.

Security score

48/100

Risk levelHigh

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

Royal TenCate is a large multinational manufacturing group specializing in technical textiles and composite materials. The company operates through five independent subsidiaries, each focusing on niche markets such as protective fabrics, sports surfaces, outdoor textiles, survivability solutions, and advanced composites. The website serves as a portal directing visitors to these subsidiaries' individual sites. Technically, the website is built on the HubSpot CMS platform and hosted behind Cloudflare, but it lacks a valid SSL certificate and proper HTTPS configuration, which is a critical security concern. The site has basic SEO and accessibility features but lacks privacy and cookie policies, contact information, and security best practices such as vulnerability disclosure mechanisms. Overall, the security posture is weak due to missing HTTPS and modern TLS protocols, which significantly impacts trust and compliance. Strategic improvements in SSL deployment, privacy compliance, and security policies are recommended to enhance the website's credibility and user trust.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
0/ 100 · Critical
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. 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

  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

  3. 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 X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

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

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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
Security headers
50
Email security
50
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
0
Average
48

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

Technical appendix

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

Business context

Business profile

Royal TenCate holds a strong market position in the manufacturing sector of technical textiles and composites, leveraging a diversified business model with multiple subsidiaries targeting specialized markets. Their competitive advantage lies in their broad product portfolio and established brand presence in protective fabrics and advanced materials. The business model is primarily B2B, serving professional and industrial clients. The website reflects a corporate structure with clear subsidiary domains but lacks direct contact or detailed corporate information on the main site. The use of HubSpot indicates a modern marketing approach, but the absence of privacy and security policies may hinder compliance with regulations such as GDPR. The company appears to have a stable partnership ecosystem internally among subsidiaries but does not publicly disclose external partnerships on this site.

Security posture

The website's security maturity is low due to the absence of a valid SSL certificate and lack of HTTPS enforcement, exposing users to potential interception risks. While some security headers like HSTS and Content-Security-Policy are present, they are insufficient without proper TLS. No vulnerability disclosure or incident response information is provided, indicating a gap in security culture and transparency. The lack of cookie consent mechanisms and privacy policies further exposes the company to compliance risks under GDPR and similar regulations. The site does not use modern TLS protocols or session resumption features, which could degrade security and performance. Immediate remediation of SSL/TLS configuration and implementation of privacy and security policies is critical to improve the security posture.

Recommendations

  1. Deploy a valid SSL/TLS certificate and enforce HTTPS site-wide immediately.
  2. Implement modern TLS protocols (TLS 1.2 or 1.3) and disable legacy protocols.
  3. Publish comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with GDPR compliance details.
  4. Add a security.txt file to facilitate vulnerability reporting and improve transparency.
  5. Include clear contact information and incident response channels on the website.
Technical notes

Notes

The website uses HubSpot CMS with RequireJS and Swiper.js for frontend functionality, hosted behind Cloudflare CDN. While the site is mobile optimized and has a consistent branding and navigation structure, performance metrics are missing or zero, indicating potential measurement gaps or slow loading. Accessibility is basic, with some screen reader text and responsive images. SEO is basic with meta tags and Open Graph tags but lacks structured data like JSON-LD. The absence of valid SSL/TLS is a critical technical debt. The DNS setup is standard with no DNSSEC or CAA records, which could be improved for security. Overall, the technical infrastructure is modern but requires urgent security upgrades and performance monitoring.
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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