Westcountry Gates & Barriers · Real Estate · United Kingdom
High risk. 7 critical or high findings in SSL/TLS, Network security and 2 other checks.
Westcountry Gates & Barriers is a specialized gate automation company based in Plymouth, Devon, serving residential and commercial customers across Devon and Cornwall. They offer bespoke automatic gates, barriers, and access control systems powered by electric or solar energy. The company is a trading name of Solar Access Systems Ltd, with clear contact details and trust indicators such as Safe Contractor approval and company registration information. The website is professionally designed with good content quality and clear navigation, targeting property owners seeking secure and automated gate solutions. Technically, the website uses a moderately modern technology stack including Bootstrap 3, jQuery, Google Analytics, and Google reCAPTCHA for form security. While the site is mobile responsive and SEO optimized, some technologies are dated and security headers are not detected, which could be improved. The site lacks a cookie consent mechanism and explicit GDPR compliance indicators, though privacy and terms pages exist. Security posture is moderate with use of HTTPS assumed but not confirmed, and no visible security headers. The WHOIS data is unavailable due to domain registration errors, which raises concerns about domain legitimacy despite the professional website content. No WAF or blocking mechanisms are detected, and the site is fully accessible. Overall, the website presents a trustworthy business front with room for improvement in security best practices and privacy compliance. The domain registration inconsistency is a notable risk factor that should be addressed to enhance trust and legitimacy.
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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.
7 findings 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.
Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1
What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions
Services reachable from the internet are the first thing attackers probe. Anything open that does not need to be should be closed.
Port 21 (FTP) is publicly accessible - FTP - Often unencrypted file transfer
What to do: Consider restricting access to FTP or implementing strong authentication
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
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.
Forces HTTPS connections
What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
Controls resources the browser is allowed to load
What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application
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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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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.
Retrieved 2026-10-25
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