Mozilla Observatory: free website security service

The security technician of the institution April released a project called Observatory. Observatory is a free web security scanning utility similar to scanning services SSL Labs and High-Tech Bridge.

The service has been deployed with Python and is available in GitHub. It was under development for months and was approved for public release just yesterday.

Cbservatory is targeted at developers, system administrators, and security professionals who want to set up websites that use modern security protocols.security Observatory

The Observatory scans each website for the presence of basic security features and then scores it with scores from 0 to 130, which then converts to a score from A to F.

In its current format, the script scans and scores for the following services:

Content Security Policy (CSP) status,
cookie files using Secure flag,
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) status,
HTTP Public Key (HPKP) status,
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) status,
percentage of automatic redirection from HTTP to HTTPS,
Subsource Integrity (SRI) status,
X-Content-Type-Options status,
X-Frame-Options (XFO) status, and
X-XSS- status.

According to Knight, who has carried out scanning over 1,3 million websites, over 91% of modern websites fail Observatory tests.

Download the script

http-observatory

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