# Advantech Security Rating, Vendor Risk Report, and Data Breaches

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Advantech manufactures industrial computing hardware and software solutions for IoT applications, including embedded systems, automation equipment, networking devices, and edge computing platforms. The company provides products and services across sectors such as manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, retail, and energy management.

## Overview
- Domain: advantech.com
- Grade: B (Good)
- Score: 740 / 950
- Last scan: August 17, 2026
- Industry: Tech
- Website: https://www.advantech.com
- Employees: 3k+
- Location: Taiwan
- CEO: K.C. Liu

## Vendor risk summary
This vendor risk report is based on UpGuard's continuous monitoring of Advantech's security posture using open-source, commercial, and proprietary threat intelligence feeds. The results are summarized into a security rating based on the analysis of hundreds of individual checks across five risk categories: website security, email security, phishing & malware, brand & reputation risk, and network security.

## Security categories

### Website Security

- Fail — CSP implemented unsafely
  - The Content Security Policy may not restrict sources appropriately, or may contain 'unsafe-inline' without the use of a nonce or hash. This increases the risk of XSS attacks.
- Fail — CSP contains unsafe-eval
  - The Content Security Policy is implemented with unsafe-eval, reducing protection against XSS attacks.
- Fail — Unmaintained page detected
  - This domain appears to be unmaintained based on indicators like page content or status code. Unmaintained pages expand the attack surface for malicious actors.
- Pass — Secure cookies used
  - Using secure cookies reduces the risk of third parties intercepting information contained in these cookies.
- Pass — Server information header not exposed
  - Ensuring the server information header is not exposed reduces the ability of attackers to exploit certain vulnerabilities.
- Pass — X-Powered-By header not exposed
  - Information about specific technology used on the server is obscured.
- Pass — CSP implemented without insecure active sources
  - The Content Security Policy does not allow any insecure active sources.
- Pass — HttpOnly cookies used
  - Using HttpOnly cookies reduces the risk of client side script attacks, by preventing cookies being read on the client.
- Pass — Referrer policy is not unsafe-url
  - The website's Referrer Policy is not configured to allow unsafe information to be sent in the referrer header.
- Pass — ASP.NET version header not exposing specific ASP.net version
  - Ensuring the ASP.NET version header is not exposing a specific version makes it harder for attackers to exploit certain vulnerabilities.
- Pass — ASP.NET version header not exposed
  - Ensuring the ASP.NET version header is not exposed makes it harder for attackers to exploit certain vulnerabilities.
- Pass — CSP implemented without insecure passive sources
  - The Content Security Policy does not allow any insecure passive (img/media) sources.
- Pass — X-Content-Type-Options is not nosniff
  - Browsers are prevented from interpreting files as a different MIME type to what is specified in the Content-Type HTTP header. This helps mitigate MIME confusion attacks.

### Email

- Fail — DMARC policy is p=quarantine
  - The DMARC policy should be set to p=reject for maximum protection.
- Pass — DMARC policy exists
  - DMARC protects against fraudulent emails being sent from a domain.
- Pass — Strict SPF filtering - not using +all
  - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record strictly enforces specific domains allowed to send email on its behalf.
- Pass — SPF syntax correct
  - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record passes basic syntax checks.
- Pass — DMARC policy percentage is default
  - DMARC policy percentage is set to default 100%, ensuring all mail is covered by the policy.
- Pass — SPF ptr mechanism not used
  - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record does not include the ptr mechanism.

### Network

- Fail — 'HTTP' port open
  - The 'HTTP' service is running and exposed to the internet. The configuration of the server should be reviewed and unnecessary ports closed.

### DNS

- Fail — DNSSEC not enabled
  - DNSSEC records prevent third parties from forging the records that guarantee a domain's identity. DNSSEC should be configured for this domain.
- Fail — Domain registrar or registry deletion protection not enabled
  - Domain is not protected from unsolicited deletion requests with the registrar or registry. The domain should have clientDeleteProhibited or serverDeleteProhibited set.
- Fail — Domain registrar or registry update protection not enabled
  - Domain is not protected from unsolicited update requests with the registrar or registry. The domain should have clientUpdateProhibited or serverUpdateProhibited set.
- Fail — CAA not enabled
  - The domain does not contain a valid Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) record. A CAA record indicates which Certificate Authorities (CAs) are authorized to issue certificates for a domain.
- Pass — No unregistered MX records detected
  - No unregistered MX records that could lead to receiving mail on behalf of the target organization were detected.
- Pass — Domain has not expired
  - Domain has not expired.
- Pass — No subdomain takeover vulnerability detected
  - No dangling DNS records that could lead to subdomain takeover were detected.
- Pass — Domain does not expire soon
  - Domain does not expire within 30 days.
- Pass — Domain not flagged as inactive
  - Domain is not flagged as inactive.
- Pass — Domain not pending deletion
  - Domain is not pending deletion with the registrar.
- Pass — Domain not pending restoration
  - Domain is not pending restoration with the registrar.
- Pass — Domain registrar or registry transfer protection enabled
  - Domain is protected from unsolicited transfer requests.
- Pass — Domain free of registrar DNS resolution hold
  - Domain is not under a DNS resolution hold with the registrar.
- Pass — Domain free of registry DNS resolution hold
  - Domain is not under a DNS resolution hold with the registry itself.
- Pass — Domain renewal not prohibited by registry
  - Domain is not prohibited from renewal at the registry itself.

### Encryption

- Fail — SSL not available
  - SSL is the standard encryption method for browsing websites. Enabling SSL requires installing an SSL certificate on the site.
- Fail — HTTPS redirect not supported
  - HTTPS is the standard protocol for secure communication on the internet. All redirects should be performed over HTTPS.
- Fail — Domain was not found on the HSTS preload list
  - The domain was not found on the HSTS preload list. Users who visit the website for the first time will be vulnerable to MITM attacks. The requirements for inclusion on the preload list are specified by hstspreload.org.
- Fail — Weak cipher suites supported in TLS 1.2
  - Weak cipher suites can potentially be broken by a well resourced attacker, and should not be supported by the server unless very old devices or browsers must be supported.
- Pass — Certificate not found on our revoked certificate list
  - The site's certificate chain was checked against our list of revoked certificates.
- Pass — HTTP requests are redirected to HTTPS
  - All HTTP requests are redirected to HTTPS.
- Pass — Hostname matches SSL certificate
  - The site's hostname matches the SSL certificate.
- Pass — SSL has not expired
  - SSL certificate has not expired.
- Pass — Trusted SSL certificate
  - The certificate presented by this domain was issued by a trusted certificate authority.
- Pass — HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) enforced
  - With HSTS enforced, people browsing this site are less susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Pass — No insecure SSL/TLS versions available
  - No insecure SSL/TLS versions are available for this site.
- Pass — SSL certificate chain present in server response
  - A complete SSL certificate chain was presented by the server for this domain.
- Pass — SSL chain certificates do not expire within 20 days
  - SSL intermediate and root certificates do not expire within 20 days.
- Pass — SSL expiration period shorter than 398 days
  - The SSL certificate presented by the server has an expiration period shorter than 398 days.
- Pass — SSL has more than 20% of its valid period remaining
  - SSL certificate does not expire in less than 20% of its total valid period.
- Pass — Strong SSL algorithm
  - Industry standard SHA-256 encryption in use.
- Pass — HSTS header contains includeSubDomains
  - The HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header contains the includeSubDomains directive.
- Pass — Strong public certificate key length
  - The site's public certificate provides at least 112 bits of security strength.

### Data leakage

- Fail — Infostealer malware detected
  - Infostealer malware has been detected on systems associated with this organization, indicating a potential data breach.
- Pass — No open cloud storage service detected
  - No cloud storage service configured to allow anonymous file listing was detected.
- Pass — Domain index is not a listable directory
  - The domain index is not a listable directory.

### IP/Domain Reputation

- Pass — Not a suspected malware provider
  - This website does not appear to contain malicious code.
- Pass — No reports of botnet activity in the last 30 days
  - This IP/domain has not been reported as a source of botnet activity in the last 30 days.
- Pass — No reports of brute force login attempts in the last 30 days
  - This IP/domain did not appear on any list of IPs and domains known to perform brute force login attempts in the last 30 days.
- Pass — No reports of malware distribution in the last 30 days
  - This IP/domain has been reported for distributing malware in the last 30 days.
- Pass — No reports of unsolicited scanning in the last 30 days
  - This IP/domain has not been reported for performing unsolicited scanning in the last 30 days.
- Pass — Not suspected of unwanted software
  - This website does not appear to be attempting to install unwanted software.
- Pass — Not a suspected phishing page
  - This site does not appear to be a forgery or imitation of another website.
- Pass — No reports of phishing activity in the last 30 days
  - This IP/domain has not been reported as a phishing site in the last 30 days.
- Pass — No reports of botnet activity in the last 90 days
  - This IP/domain has not been reported as a source of botnet activity in the last 90 days.
- Pass — No reports of brute force login attempts in the last 90 days
  - This IP/domain did not appear on any list of IPs and domains known to perform brute force login attempts in the last 90 days.
- Pass — No reports of malware distribution in the last 90 days
  - This IP/domain has been reported for distributing malware in the last 90 days.
- Pass — No reports of unsolicited scanning in the last 90 days
  - This IP/domain has not been reported for performing unsolicited scanning in the last 90 days.
- Pass — No reports of phishing activity in the last 90 days
  - This IP/domain has not been reported as a phishing site in the last 90 days.

### Vulnerability Management

- Pass — Not vulnerable to CVE-2014-0160 (Heartbleed)
  - A bug in OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension allows access to portions of memory on the targeted host e.g. cryptographic keys and passwords.
- Pass — Not vulnerable to CVE-2014-3566 (POODLE)
  - The server does not support SSLv3, and is not vulnerable to the POODLE attack.
- Pass — Not vulnerable to CVE-2015-0204 (FREAK)
  - The server does not offer RSA_EXPORT cipher suites, so clients are not vulnerable to the FREAK attack.
- Pass — Not vulnerable to CVE-2015-4000 (Logjam)
  - The server is using strong Diffie-Hellman parameters and is not vulnerable to the Logjam attack.

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