TSO (The Stationery Office) · Government · United Kingdom
Medium risk. 1 critical or high finding in SSL/TLS.
The Gazette is the UK's official public record publication, established in 1665 and published by TSO under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, part of The National Archives. It serves as a trusted source for official notices including insolvency, wills and probate, company data, and historical archives. The website targets businesses, legal professionals, government entities, and the general public seeking authoritative public records. Its business model includes providing official notices, data services, and archival access with paid options for notice placement and data subscriptions. Technically, the website employs modern JavaScript libraries such as RequireJS and Modernizr, uses Matomo Analytics with consent management, and integrates a live chat widget for customer support. The site is moderately optimized for performance and mobile devices, with good accessibility and SEO practices. The presence of cookie consent banners and privacy policies indicates a mature approach to privacy compliance. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and uses cookie consent mechanisms to manage analytics tracking. However, it lacks explicit security policy pages and incident response information, and security headers are not visibly present in the HTML. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected. Overall, the security posture is solid but could be improved with additional transparency and technical controls. The domain WHOIS data is unavailable due to Nominet UK restrictions, consistent with the domain being government-controlled. This lack of public WHOIS data does not detract from the site's legitimacy given its official status. The site is trustworthy, professionally maintained, and safe for general audiences.
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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.
1 finding rated critical or high. Fix these first.
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
Could not establish secure connection to retrieve certificate information
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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.
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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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