IT and cybersecurity for Title & Escrow

You are held to GLBA WISP + ALTA Best Practices 4.2 (lender-pushed) – and, like most firms your size, you are expected to meet it without anyone in-house whose job it is to own it. We run the IT and the security program so the obligation is actually covered, not just acknowledged.

Where we usually start: Wire fraud / BEC (most visceral).

If this sounds familiar

“One spoofed email and a buyer’s entire down payment could be wired to a criminal – under our name.”

Business-email-compromise attackers watch the transaction and strike with “updated” wire instructions right before closing. A single success is six figures gone, often unrecoverable, and it happened on the firm’s watch.

“Even when the money is recovered, the client never trusts us again – and that’s how referrals dry up.”

In a business built entirely on referral trust, the reputational damage from a fraud event outlasts the financial loss; most consumers say they wouldn’t use the firm again regardless of recovery.

“Our lenders send security questionnaires, and every time we scramble to prove we’re ALTA-compliant.”

Lenders are financially on the hook for their vendors, so they push documented security down to the title agent – and being unable to answer cleanly threatens the firm’s eligibility to get work.

Who this is for

Typical size: 10–100 employees (sweet spot 15–60), revenue $2M–$30M. If that is roughly you, the rest of this page will land.

What working with us looks like

A named team that knows your stack, monitoring and patching that happens whether or not anyone chases it, and a written security program kept current – with the evidence to back it up when a client, an auditor or an insurer asks. We report to the Owner + Escrow Manager, not to a ticket queue.

Talk to us

Call 206-850-1496 or email mhasse@itwerx.net and we will set up a short call – no audit, no pitch deck, just a conversation about what you have and what is worrying you.