Observatory for the application of standards in 1,300 domains in Portugal. See who’s on the honor roll – Internet
Are more than 1,300 Portuguese domains that are not analyzed Portuguese Internet Technologies Observatoryan initiative that has been developed in recent months by the Portuguese Chapter of the Internet Society and which analyzes the degree of adoption of the standards by the main actors of the Portuguese Internet. This group includes the most relevant websites, ISPs and some accommodation of pages.
“This is as practical a demonstration of ISOC Portugal’s commitment to the Internet as it is possible to match what is best done in the world in terms of security, especially in terms of the presence of the Portuguese State on the Internet and other relevant Portuguese actors in this area. space”, explain Nuno Guimarães, president of the ISOC Portugal Chapter association and José Legatheaux, member of the association responsible for the observatoryin the public presentation of the Observatory.
This was a work prepared over the last few months and the launch of the Observatory is now official and There are already data that can be consulted, with the monitoring of the websites of the security domains, validating DNSSEC and HTTPS quality but also the kit service integrated into each of them. According to information provided to SAPO TEK, the observatory monitors the adoption of IPv6 and adoption of Portugal BGP security standards by the ISP. It is also an offer of accommodation of pages and course integrated by 5 companies with the highest number of .PT domain registrations.
For comparison and benchmarking of the results, the 1000 most popular domains in the world, and here there are data alerts about the highlights in the confrontation with the important Portuguese.
“The analysis clearly shows that attention to web security in Portugal is on average lower than in the 1000 most popular websites in the world“, refers to the Portuguese Chapter of the Internet Society indicating that “the adoption of HTTPS/TLS is nowadays widespread as 88.2% of the most websites worldwide support HTTPS/TLS, but only 82.9% of the most popular in .PT and 85.9% of Portuguese State websites support HTTPS/TLS”.
Second the report this reveals a lack of serious commitment to the security of the sites.
“Initially, the correct adoption of this support is frankly inferior because in all the updated groups the support of the currently recommended version (TLS 1.3) is always less than 50% support, and that of potentially dangerous previous versions is even greater than 40%”, he says. the document
It is also indicated that, in general, “the adoption of TLS by the domains’ email servers is, in quantity and quality, much lower than what is verified in the web servers”.
The alert also goes to the adoption of Measures against email phishing attacks. “The correct adoption of measures against phishing attacks in email, being very low globally, is lower in Portugal than in the world, disappointing at the level of the Portuguese State servers and totally absent in the servers of the Top-5 web hosting providers from Portugal“, indicates the report.
“This state of affairs reveals a total lack of attention to this service and disregard for protecting users against phishing attacks”, warns the Portuguese Chapter of the Internet Society.
The Internet Honor Roll in Portugal
The Observatory’s analysis points to the results of several Portuguese, listing a domain of honor that covers public entities, associations and companies, but which reveals a qualification of most Portuguese State websites.
Among the public entities, it is distinguished Portimão City Council (cm-portimao.pt), PT Archive (arquivo.pt), FCCN (www.fccn.pt), Bragança Polytechnic Institute (ipb.pt), General Directorate of Higher Education (www. dges.gov.pt), University of Évora (www.uevora.pt) and Webcheck (webcheck.pt).
In the associations, AMI (ami.org.pt), ISOC (isoc.pt), .PT (www.dns.pt) and Confio (confio.pt) stand out. (www.credibom.pt), Benfica (serbenfiquista.pt), Casino do Estoril (estorilsolcasinos.pt) and the Lusa agency (lusa.pt).
According to the information, a most Portuguese State websites do not deserve this distinction. “In contrast, the international honor roll is for the US State websites and for the europa.eu website in the EU”.
The published results of the published tests are from May, but the main published months published in the publication will be presented as presented. Observatory Highlights.