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

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Heywood Business Analysts provides business analysis and consulting services. The company offers solutions for organizational processes, systems implementation, and business improvement initiatives across various sectors in the private and public domains.

## Overview
- Domain: heywood.co.za
- Grade: C (Fair)
- Score: 406 / 950
- Last scan: August 30, 2026
- Industry: Professional Services
- Website: https://www.heywood.co.za
- Employees: 10
- Location: South Africa

## Vendor risk summary
This vendor risk report is based on UpGuard's continuous monitoring of Heywood'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 — X-Powered-By header exposed
  - The X-Powered-By header reveals information about specific technology used on the server. This information can be used to exploit vulnerabilities. The server configuration should be changed to remove this header.
- Fail — X-Frame-Options is not deny or sameorigin
  - Browsers may display this website's content in frames. This can lead to clickjacking attacks.
- Fail — CSP is not implemented
  - No valid Content Security Policy is implemented. This increases the risk of XSS and clickjacking attacks.
- Fail — X-Content-Type-Options is not nosniff
  - Browsers may interpret files as a different MIME type than what is specified in the Content-Type HTTP header. This can lead to MIME confusion attacks.
- Pass — Server information header not exposed
  - Ensuring the server information header is not exposed reduces the ability of attackers to exploit certain vulnerabilities.
- 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 — No unmaintained page detected
  - The page appears to be maintained.

### Email

- Fail — DMARC policy not found
  - DMARC policy was not found. This makes it easier for attackers to send email from this domain. A DMARC policy should be deployed for this domain.
- Pass — SPF enabled
  - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records prevent spammers from sending messages with forged addresses.
- 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 — SPF ptr mechanism not used
  - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record does not include the ptr mechanism.

### Network

- Fail — 'FTP' port open
  - The 'FTP' 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.
- 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.

### 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 — HTTP does not redirect to HTTPS
  - The domain is still accessible over HTTP. All HTTP requests should be redirected to HTTPS.
- Fail — HTTPS redirect not supported
  - HTTPS is the standard protocol for secure communication on the internet. All redirects should be performed over HTTPS.

### Data leakage

- Fail — WordPress plugin versions exposed
  - Ensuring WordPress plugin versions are not exposed can make it harder for attackers to find exploits against your site.
- Fail — WordPress user list exposed
  - Exposing the list of users on a WordPress site (via the WP-JSON API) can assist attackers in brute forcing credentials, as well as constitute a privacy risk.
- Pass — No listable directories found
  - No listable directories were found on the server.
- 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

- Fail — End-of-life version of PHP detected
  - The detected version of PHP is end of life. The product will likely not receive security updates from the vendor moving forward.
- Fail — Microsoft IIS 7.5 has potential vulnerabilities
  - Microsoft IIS 7.5 has vulnerabilities which might be exploitable under certain conditions. Affected domains should be checked to determine which vulnerabilities might pose a risk.
- Fail — PHP 5.6.0 has potential vulnerabilities
  - PHP 5.6.0 has vulnerabilities which might be exploitable under certain conditions. Affected domains should be checked to determine which vulnerabilities might pose a risk.
- Fail — WordPress plugin - Contact Form 7 5.1.9 has potential vulnerabilities
  - WordPress plugin - Contact Form 7 5.1.9 has vulnerabilities which might be exploitable under certain conditions. Affected domains should be checked to determine which vulnerabilities might pose a risk.
- Pass — Not vulnerable to CVE-2015-1635 (IIS HTTP.sys Remote Code Execution)
  - HTTP.sys in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests.

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