The Gazette · Government · United Kingdom
Low risk. No critical or high findings.
The Gazette is the UK's official public record, 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, awards, and company data. The website targets businesses, legal professionals, government entities, and the general public seeking authoritative public records. Its business model revolves around official notice publication and data services, positioning it as a key government information provider with a long-standing legacy. Technically, the website employs a modern JavaScript stack including RequireJS, Matomo analytics for privacy-conscious tracking, and a live chat widget for customer support. The site is well-structured with good mobile optimization, accessibility, and SEO practices. Performance is moderate, with room for optimization. The site uses HTTPS exclusively and implements cookie consent mechanisms, reflecting a mature digital infrastructure. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and uses privacy-respecting analytics, but lacks published security policies or incident response contacts. No critical vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected. Security headers could be enhanced for improved protection. Overall, the security posture is solid but could benefit from formalized policies and vulnerability disclosure mechanisms. The overall risk is low given the authoritative nature of the site and its compliance with privacy regulations. Strategic recommendations include publishing a dedicated security policy, adding vulnerability disclosure information, enhancing HTTP security headers, and maintaining regular audits of third-party scripts to sustain trust and security.
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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.
No critical or high findings. These medium findings are worth fixing next.
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.
Controls browser features and APIs
What to do: Implement a Permissions-Policy to restrict feature access
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
Privacy policy lacks explicit GDPR compliance elements
What to do: Update privacy policy to explicitly address GDPR requirements and user rights
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
DMARC policy is set to "none"
What to do: Gradually move to "quarantine" then "reject" policy
DKIM adds cryptographic signatures to emails
What to do: Configure DKIM with your email provider
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
5 resources loaded over insecure HTTP
What to do: Ensure all resources (images, scripts, stylesheets) are loaded over HTTPS
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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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Leaked records that mention thegazette.co.uk, from OffSeq Breach.
4 subdomains affected
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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.
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