Municipal Security Check
A structured review of your municipality's externally visible attack surface: email, web, DNS and infrastructure. We assess following the principles of BSI Grundschutz and the OWASP methodology, rate every finding by urgency and deliver a prioritised action plan — clear enough for leadership, actionable for your IT team.
Why a security check now
Municipalities are a preferred target: sensitive citizen data, often legacy IT, high dependence on a few systems. An incident hits not only the administration but every citizen.
Clarity, not guesswork
You learn, with evidence, where your administration is externally exposed — with a transparent rating per finding, not a blanket warning.
Prioritised action plan
Every finding gets a severity and an effort estimate. You immediately see what to fix this week and what can wait — and can direct budget where it matters.
Reduce leadership and official liability
A documented assessment and remediation is the best proof that leadership met its duty of care — especially under tightened requirements.
NIS2 in view
We classify the findings technically in the NIS2 context. Whether your municipality is formally in scope is for your legal counsel to determine — we provide the technical basis.
Independent second opinion
We are not your IT provider and assess with an open outcome. An external, independent view finds what day-to-day operations overlook.
Through to remediation, if you wish
We don't stop at the report: on request we support remediation technically — from email authentication to hardening web services.
What we assess
The check focuses on externally reachable services — exactly where attackers look first. Example finding categories from typical assessments:
Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
A common, critical finding: emails can be forged in the administration's name because sender authentication is missing or incomplete. That is the gateway for phishing and CEO fraud — closable with correctly set policies.
Mail server configuration
We check whether the mail server unintentionally accepts foreign senders or non-existent recipients, whether encryption (STARTTLS) is available and whether an open relay exists.
Web security headers
Missing headers such as HSTS, Content-Security-Policy or X-Frame-Options are a classic, quickly fixable weakness. They decide whether the browser effectively protects your citizens.
Encryption & certificates
Review of TLS configuration, certificate validity and outdated protocols — so the connection between citizen and administration cannot be read along.
Information disclosure
Servers that openly reveal their software versions or internal paths save an attacker the first step. We show what is visible to the outside.
DNS & domain hygiene
Misconfigured or outdated DNS records, unused subdomains and missing CAA records are silent risks. We bring order to the domain landscape.
Outdated software versions
Publicly reachable services with known vulnerabilities are the single most common entry point. We identify what needs updating or replacing.
Report & action plan
You receive a clear report: findings by severity, concrete recommendations, effort estimates and a summary for leadership.
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