Real estate · title · escrow
Title companies, escrow firms, and brokerages move large sums on tight timelines, which makes them the favorite target for business email compromise. The attacker rarely breaks anything — they sit in a mailbox, wait for a closing, and change the wire instructions.
The exposure
Business-email-compromise wire diversion is the most common and most expensive claim in this vertical. Carriers know it, which is why the funds-transfer controls — out-of-band verification on every payment and bank-detail change, with no dollar floor, plus dual authorization — are the make-or-break answers on the application.
The program
The same managed security program we run for every client — 24/7 SOC-monitored detection, identity protection, and security awareness training, operated end-to-end — tuned to real estate, title & escrow.
Managed ITDR on Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace catches the adversary-in-the-middle phishing kits that bypass MFA and the inbox rules that quietly reroute wire and closing emails — the exact mechanics of a BEC wire diversion.
We help you implement and document call-back verification on every payment and bank-detail change, and dual authorization above threshold — the controls carriers like Corvus and Beazley require with no dollar floor.
Security awareness training tuned to the people who actually move money — payment-redirect and closing-impersonation drills, not generic annual videos.
Managed detection and response on every endpoint, and if a wire is in motion when something is detected, a practitioner coordinates the freeze, the bank, and the carrier notification — not a ticket queue.
Fit
Further reading
CISSP-led guides on the threats, compliance, and controls that apply to real estate, title & escrow— the detail behind the program above.
Closing-wire fraud is the most expensive cyberattack in real estate — and most title and settlement firms don't realize the FTC Safeguards Rule already treats them as financial institutions. Here's the exposure and the fix.
Read the guideFAQ
Title and settlement firms are treated as 'financial institutions' under the FTC Safeguards Rule, so a written information security program, MFA, and encryption are required. Brokerages that handle closing funds carry the same wire-fraud exposure even where the rule's scope is narrower.
Business email compromise that redirects a closing wire. An attacker sits in a mailbox, waits for a closing, and changes the wire instructions — the most common and most expensive claim in the industry. Out-of-band verification of every payment and bank-detail change is the control that stops it.
Managed coverage starts at $15 per device per month (Foundation, no minimum). The Protected and Complete tiers — adding identity protection, security awareness training, and SIEM — are billed per seat for teams of five or more. The one-time Cyber Insurance Readiness Sprint is a fixed fee from $1,500 (three tiers up to $3,500).
The Cyber Insurance Readiness Sprint runs seven business days from kickoff to a signed evidence pack mapped to your carrier's questionnaire. Managed monitoring can begin onboarding in the same week.
Start with the questionnaire
The free 2026 Cyber Insurance Readiness Questionnaire scores you against the controls carriers actually ask about. Then the Readiness Sprint turns your environment into the evidence they accept.
