The industry wire fraud targets hardest.
Managed IT for Los Angeles brokerages, title companies, and escrow firms — closing-day wire fraud defences, secure access for agents who are never at a desk, and transaction data kept where it belongs.
Built around closing day.
Phishing-resistant MFA, mailbox rule alerting, external sender warnings, and a verbal verification procedure for every set of wire instructions.
Agents work from cars, listings, and closings. Managed mobile access to systems without brokerage data ending up in personal apps.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configured properly so criminals cannot convincingly spoof your domain to your own clients.
Contracts, disclosures, and identity documents stored with access control and retention rather than scattered across inboxes.
Agents join and leave constantly. Automated provisioning and same-day deprovisioning so departed agents lose access immediately.
Tested backups and a continuity plan, because a closing does not reschedule because your systems are down.
Why this industry loses the most money.
Closing dates are public information
Attackers know when large sums move and to whom. That combination — a known date, a large amount, and legitimate email wire instructions — is why this sector leads national fraud losses.
Buyers are the weakest link
Your client receives the fraudulent email, not you. Domain authentication and clear client-facing wire policies protect people outside your own systems.
Everyone works from everywhere
Personal phones, public wifi, and shared devices are the norm. Security has to work without a corporate network to sit behind.
Agent churn creates orphaned access
Departed agents with live logins to transaction systems are a persistent and under-noticed exposure.
Frequently asked questions.
How do we stop buyers being defrauded on closing day?
Two things do most of the work. First, configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on your domain so criminals cannot convincingly impersonate your firm to your clients. Second, give buyers a written wire policy at the start of the transaction stating that instructions never change by email, and that they must call a known number to verify.
Most losses happen because the buyer had no reason to be suspicious. Setting the expectation early is the highest-value thing you can do.
Our agents are independent contractors. How does that affect IT?
It changes the device question. You generally cannot fully manage a contractor-owned phone or laptop, but you can protect brokerage data on it using mobile application management, which controls the apps and data without taking over the device.
It also makes fast deprovisioning more important, since a departing agent keeps their hardware and only loses access if you actually remove it.
What happens if a wire has already been sent?
Call the bank immediately and request a recall, then report to the FBI at ic3.gov the same day. Recovery odds are meaningfully better within the first 24 to 72 hours and fall away quickly after that.
In parallel, reset the affected mailbox password and revoke active sessions, and audit mailbox rules across the whole tenant rather than just that account.
Do you work with our transaction management platform?
We support the identity, connectivity, and device layer those platforms run on, and coordinate with vendors on application issues. Most brokerages run several such systems, and we help make single sign-on and access reviews manageable across them.
Is this affordable for a small brokerage?
Pricing is per user, so a fifteen-agent brokerage pays accordingly. Given that a single successful wire fraud in this market routinely exceeds a year of managed IT cost, this is one of the clearer cases for the spend.