Service academy websites: security rankings

Security scores, grades, and the most common failures for 7 service academy websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 7
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

The federal service academies.

C 79

Average security score of 6 fully scanned service academy sites

4th

of 9 lists, ranked by average security score

6 of 7

Service academy 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 Service academies security scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 6 fully scanned service academy sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 6 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • Service academies average
  • All education average
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How Service academies security scores are distributed
Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 690
70 to 794
80 to 892
90 to 1000

Service academies by security grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Service academies: 6 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Service academiesB to C (70 to 89): 100% (6 sites)
  2. All education sitesA (90 to 100): 19% (505 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 79% (2,113 sites)D to F (below 70): 3% (69 sites)
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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Service academies by security grade, compared with all education sites
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Service academies0% (0)100% (6)0% (0)
All education sites19% (505)79% (2,113)3% (69)

Top 3 service academy sites by security score

#1 in Service academies · U.S. education rank 3

B 87 security

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability C
  • Security B
  • Usability F
  • Readability F

#1 in Service academies · U.S. education rank 3

U.S. Coast Guard

B 87 security

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability B
  • Security B
  • Usability C
  • Readability F

#2 in Service academies · U.S. education rank 5

Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management

C 77 security

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability C
  • Security C
  • Usability F
  • Readability F

Most common security failures among service academy sites

Share of the 6 fully scanned service academy sites failing each check. A site can fail more than one check. Each check links to its standard and how to fix it.

  1. Sponsored top-level domain (sTLD)67% (4 of 6 sites)
  2. Errors in the console50% (3 of 6 sites)
  3. X-Content-Type-Options33% (2 of 6 sites)
  4. Security.txt17% (1 of 6 sites)
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Most common security failures among service academy sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Sponsored top-level domain (sTLD)67%4
Errors in the console50%3
X-Content-Type-Options33%2
Security.txt17%1

What each check means

  • Sponsored top-level domain (sTLD). The site uses a government-issued domain (.gov, .edu, or .mil). People cannot tell if your site is real government.
  • Errors in the console. The page loads without JavaScript or network errors. Site may have hidden bugs that break features.
  • X-Content-Type-Options. The site tells browsers not to guess the type of files it serves. Browsers might run dangerous files by mistake.
  • Security.txt. The site has a security.txt file so researchers know how to report issues. Security researchers cannot report problems to you.

Service academies by security score

Service academies ranked by security score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 nps.edu
Naval Postgraduate School U.S. rank 3
7 of 8 checks pass B
1 uscga.edu
U.S. Coast Guard U.S. rank 3
7 of 8 checks pass B
2 afit.edu
Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management U.S. rank 5
7 of 9 checks pass C
3 usafa.edu
Department of the Air Force U.S. rank 6
6 of 8 checks pass C
3 westpoint.edu
United States Military Academy U.S. rank 6
6 of 8 checks pass C
3 usna.edu
United States Naval Academy U.S. rank 6
6 of 8 checks pass C
usmma.edu
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 403 -

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 10/26/2026 and 11/1/2026. 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.

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