Real Estate Overview
The real estate industry, including brokerages, title companies, escrow services, and mortgage lenders, is an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals. These organizations routinely handle large financial transactions, sensitive personal data, and legally binding documentation. This makes them a prime focus for phishing schemes, wire fraud, ransomware, and business email compromise (BEC). With deals often moving quickly and communication relying heavily on email, cloud platforms, and digital document signing. The risk of a successful cyberattack grows with every transaction.
Risks
According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report, real estate-related business email compromise (BEC) scams accounted for over $446 million in losses in 2023. This figure continues to rise year over year. Additionally, the average cost of a data breach in the financial services adjacent sector, including real estate and title companies, exceeded $5.9 million per incident, as reported by IBM. These attacks frequently involve unauthorized access to email accounts, redirection of wire transfers, and exposure of sensitive buyer and seller information, which can result in lost deals, legal liabilities, and reputational damage.
Solutions
Penetration testing is essential for real estate companies seeking to prevent these costly breaches. It helps identify vulnerabilities across web portals, internal systems, email configurations, CRM platforms, and cloud storage services. Many organizations rely on third-party platforms to handle e-signatures, manage listings, or process financial data. However, they fail to assess how these integrations may introduce security risks. Phishing resistance, endpoint protections, and internal network segmentation are also common areas of weakness that attackers exploit to gain a foothold.
Shaka Cyber offers penetration testing services specifically designed for the real estate and title industry. We simulate real-world cyberattacks to uncover weak points in your infrastructure, email security, authentication policies, and transaction workflows. Our approach goes beyond surface-level scans. We manually test for flaws in logic, permissions, and configurations that could lead to real-world exploitation. Our findings are delivered in risk-prioritized reports with step-by-step remediation guidance for both technical teams and leadership.
Impact
As cybercrime continues to grow in frequency and sophistication, especially during high-value real estate closings, proactive security testing has become a necessity. Shaka Cyber helps real estate firms secure their data, protect their transactions, and build lasting trust with clients and partners. In an industry built on deadlines, relationships, and high-value financial activity, we ensure your cybersecurity posture is as strong and dependable as your business reputation.
