Industries
Real Estate & Title
In real estate and title, one convincing email can move six figures to the wrong account and it is very often unrecoverable. Nothing else in this industry's technology risk comes close.
What makes this different
The problems specific to your sector
Not a generic list. These are the things that come up repeatedly in this kind of business.
Wire fraud is the whole threat model
An attacker sitting quietly in a mailbox watches a transaction approach closing, then sends amended wiring instructions from a lookalike domain — or from the real one. The money is gone within hours and recovery is rare.
Everyone in the chain is a way in
Agent, lender, title company, attorney, buyer. The attacker only needs the weakest mailbox in that chain, and it is frequently not yours.
Nobody can tell a forged domain from the real one
Without email authentication published and enforced, a stranger can send mail that appears to come from your firm to your own clients, and the message will pass every check the recipient's mail server makes.
Agents work from phones and personal laptops
Company mail and client documents live on devices the business does not own and cannot see, and often cannot remove when someone moves brokerages.
Compliance
What you are actually required to do
Named obligations rather than the word 'compliance'. If one of these does not apply to you, we will say so.
Client funds handling
Title and escrow obligations around funds handling sit alongside whatever your underwriter requires of you.
Cyber insurance conditions
Wire fraud and social engineering cover usually carry specific control requirements — read them before assuming you are covered.
Your software
We expect to find these
We work around your line-of-business software rather than asking you to change it, and we deal with the vendor when needed.
- Microsoft 365
- Title production software
- Transaction management
- E-signature platforms
- Escrow accounting
Recommended
Where we would start
Exchange Online & Email Security
Mail flow, SPF, DKIM and DMARC set so your invoices arrive and nobody can send one pretending to be you.
Microsoft 365 Security
The tenant settings that decide whether a stolen password becomes an incident — reviewed, tightened and documented.
Entra ID & Conditional Access
Identity is the perimeter now. Conditional Access, MFA that resists phishing, and an end to permanent admin rights.
Incident Response & Ransomware Recovery
Suspected breach, compromised Microsoft 365 account or ransomware — containment first, then a written account of what happened.
Questions
Common questions
What actually stops wire fraud?
A combination, and no single item is sufficient. Email authentication so your domain cannot be forged, MFA that resists phishing, monitoring for mailbox rules an attacker adds, and a verbal verification procedure for any change to wiring instructions that is never waived under time pressure. The procedure matters as much as the technology.
Can you tell whether our email can be spoofed right now?
Yes, in about two seconds, using the free email-security check on this site. It reads the same public records every receiving mail server reads. If it comes back clean you do not need us for that part.
What do we do if a wire has already gone out?
Call your bank immediately and ask for a recall, then the FBI IC3, then your insurer — in that order, and within hours rather than days. We can help establish what happened in the mailbox and preserve the evidence, but the recall window is measured in hours and no technical work should delay that phone call.
Ready to secure your business?
A free assessment: we review your network, backups, Microsoft 365 settings and exposure, then hand you the findings in writing — whether or not you hire us.