Real estate runs on trust and timing — and attackers know exactly when both peak: closing week. Wire-fraud crews target your agents, your title partners, and your clients with perfectly-timed fake wiring instructions.
WIRE-FRAUD DEFENSE
Real estate is the top target for business email compromise. One convincing spoofed message with "updated wiring instructions" can wipe out a closing — and your reputation with it.
Dotloop, SkySlope, zipForm, MLS, e-signature — when a platform stalls on closing day, deals slip, clients panic, and agents blame you. Reliability is revenue.
Showings, open houses, coffee shops, cars. Client financial documents flow over public Wi-Fi on personal phones — an open door most brokerages never close.
Leases, loan applications, IDs, background checks, and payment data pass through your systems daily. State privacy laws make a breach your legal problem, not just IT's.
Cameras, access control, smart locks, and HVAC systems share your network. Unsegmented building IoT is an attacker's favorite side entrance into your corporate data.
Online rent collection and application fees mean card data flows through your tenant portals. That brings PCI obligations — and a payment outage means rent doesn't arrive.
Wire fraud isn't stopped by one product — it's a chain of controls that assumes the attacker will eventually write a perfect email. Here's the chain we implement:
DMARC enforced at p=reject with SPF/DKIM alignment, so spoofed mail from your domain never reaches a client or agent.MFA and conditional access on every mailbox — the account takeover that enables most wire fraud dies here.3-2-1 backups of transaction records, leases, and trust-account data with quarterly restore tests.Wire fraud is stopped by a chain of controls, not a single product. Xaccel enforces DMARC at p=reject with SPF and DKIM alignment so your domain can't be spoofed, monitors for lookalike domains and display-name impersonation of brokers, title companies and lenders, puts phishing-resistant MFA and conditional access on every mailbox to stop account takeover, and gives your team a written out-of-band verification procedure: any change to wiring instructions is confirmed by phone to a known number.
Xaccel provides hands-on support for Dotloop, SkySlope, zipForm, MLS systems, AppFolio, Buildium and Yardi, so transaction and property management tools stay available on closing day.
A secure mobile agent kit combines managed devices, conditional access and secure virtual desktops, so agents can work from any showing or open house while client financial documents never sit on a personal phone.
They can be. Cameras, access control, smart locks and HVAC often share the corporate network and become an easy way in. Xaccel isolates building systems on their own locked-down network segment, unreachable from tenant or guest Wi-Fi.