Showing Empire 8 member sites. All education sites
Members of the Empire 8 (NCAA Division III), from the NCAA membership directory. Conferences change membership every year; this list follows the directory's current academic year.
B 81
Average security score of 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites
13th
of 96 conferences, ranked by average security score
11 of 12
Empire 8 member sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades
B 85
Average security score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites
How Empire 8 security scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 11 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Empire 8 average
- All education average
View the data table
| Score range | Sites |
|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 0 |
| 10 to 19 | 0 |
| 20 to 29 | 0 |
| 30 to 39 | 0 |
| 40 to 49 | 0 |
| 50 to 59 | 0 |
| 60 to 69 | 0 |
| 70 to 79 | 6 |
| 80 to 89 | 5 |
| 90 to 100 | 0 |
Empire 8 by security grade, compared with all education sites
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Empire 8: 11 sites. All education: 2687 sites.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
View the data table
| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empire 8 | 0% (0) | 100% (11) | 0% (0) |
| All education sites | 19% (505) | 79% (2,113) | 3% (69) |
Top 3 Empire 8 member sites by security score
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 3
Houghton University
B 87 security
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability F
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 3
Keuka College
B 87 security
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability D
- Readability F
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 3
Nazareth University
B 87 security
- Accessibility C
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability B
- Readability F
What each check means
- X-Content-Type-Options. The site tells browsers not to guess the type of files it serves. Browsers might run dangerous files by mistake.
- Errors in the console. The page loads without JavaScript or network errors. Site may have hidden bugs that break features.
- Security.txt. The site has a security.txt file so researchers know how to report issues. Security researchers cannot report problems to you.
Empire 8 members by security score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
houghton.edu
Houghton University U.S. rank 3 |
7 of 8 checks pass | B |
| 1 |
keuka.edu
Keuka College U.S. rank 3 |
7 of 8 checks pass | B |
| 1 |
www2.naz.edu
Nazareth University U.S. rank 3 |
7 of 8 checks pass | B |
| 1 |
sjf.edu
St. John Fisher University U.S. rank 3 |
7 of 8 checks pass | B |
| 1 |
brockport.edu
SUNY Brockport U.S. rank 3 |
7 of 8 checks pass | B |
| 2 |
alfred.edu
Alfred University U.S. rank 5 |
7 of 9 checks pass | C |
| 3 |
elmira.edu
Elmira College U.S. rank 6 |
6 of 8 checks pass | C |
| 3 |
hartwick.edu
Hartwick College U.S. rank 6 |
6 of 8 checks pass | C |
| 3 |
geneseo.edu
SUNY College at Geneseo U.S. rank 6 |
6 of 8 checks pass | C |
| 3 |
sunypoly.edu
SUNY Polytechnic Institute U.S. rank 6 |
6 of 8 checks pass | C |
| 3 |
utica.edu
Utica University U.S. rank 6 |
6 of 8 checks pass | C |
|
sage.edu
Russell Sage College |
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't scan your site because it showed our bot a captcha or browser check instead of the page. Status 996 | - |
About security
Secure your site and protect users with proper security practices.
Why it's important
Strong defenses prevent hackers from stealing personal information and other confidential data.
Risks
- Hackers can steal private information from your site.
Guidance
What we use to grade security:
- CISA Website Security
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals
- RFC 9116
- OWASP Top 10
- U.S. Federal Website Standards
Standards
- Content security policy (CSP)
- HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
- security.txt
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Errors in the console
- Clickjacking mitigation
- Paste preventing inputs
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
- Sponsored top-level domain (sTLD)
Grades/scores
ScanGov
About this ranking
About this data
ScanGov scans the homepage of each college and university site on our higher education list. Scores come from the checks in the ScanGov standards. Sites were scanned between 10/25/2026 and 11/8/2026. Each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage loaded and sent us its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. We could not fully scan 1 sites. They did not respond, blocked the scanner, or sent no page content. They appear in the table without grades, with their scan status, and are left out of every figure. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale. Rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, with every county's raw results, is in the ScanGov data repository.