National Weather Service · Government · United States
Medium risk. 4 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.
The National Weather Service (NWS) website serves as the official platform for the NOAA National Weather Service, providing comprehensive weather forecasts, alerts, and safety information to the public and government agencies. As a US government entity under the Department of Commerce, the NWS holds a primary market position in weather-related services across the United States. The website targets a broad audience including the general public, emergency responders, and governmental bodies, offering critical services such as local and national weather forecasts, severe weather warnings, and educational resources. Technically, the website employs a mature infrastructure utilizing legacy but stable technologies like jQuery and jQuery UI, integrated with modern analytics tools such as Google Tag Manager and DigitalGov Analytics. The site is served over HTTPS, ensuring secure communications, and includes multiple external trusted domains for content and analytics. While the site performs moderately well, there is room for improvement in mobile optimization and accessibility to enhance user experience. From a security perspective, the site demonstrates good practices with HTTPS enforcement and no visible exposure of sensitive data. However, the absence of key security headers and a cookie consent mechanism indicates areas for enhancement to meet modern compliance standards. The lack of a published vulnerability disclosure or security.txt file and explicit incident response contacts suggests opportunities to improve transparency and incident readiness. Overall, the NWS website is a highly credible and trustworthy government resource with excellent content quality and professional presentation. Strategic improvements in privacy compliance, security headers, and mobile accessibility would further strengthen its security posture and user trust.
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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.
4 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
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.
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
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
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
SPF helps prevent email spoofing
What to do: Add SPF record: "v=spf1 include:_spf.yourmailprovider.com ~all"
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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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Not counted
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.
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