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Wire Fraud Risk Reduction Checklist

August 17, 2017

Clareity® wrote “Reducing the Risk of Real Estate Wire Fraud” in 2016 and has since updated it several times to account for the evolution of the threat. The paper is extensive and is a must-read for professionals who want to more fully understand the problem and how to mitigate the risks. The following checklist may … Continue reading “Wire Fraud Risk Reduction Checklist”

2017 Midyear Real Estate Info Security Update

June 20, 2017

The past year has been very eventful in the area of real estate information security and in the security space in general. Wire Fraud has been a hot topic in real estate this past year. Clareity has been working directly with brokers to implement controls and has also been working with franchises, broker networks, MLSs, … Continue reading “2017 Midyear Real Estate Info Security Update”

Upstream Returns to Earth

May 17, 2017

Yesterday, at the Council of MLS meeting in Washington, DC Upstream announced a major pivot: instead of being the single source of truth for listing and broker data, it would re-focus for now on syndicating listing data that it received from the MLS. The argument for the pivot was to offer the benefits of Upstream … Continue reading “Upstream Returns to Earth”

Broker Control of Listing Input – Options Emerging

April 3, 2017

Over a year ago, at Clareity’s MLS Executive Workshop in 2016, Gregg facilitated a discussion with Cary Sylvester (VP, Industry Development – Keller Williams) to answer the questions about Upstream that had gone unanswered to date. While the Upstream project is in progress with RPR working on beta tests in several markets, in 2017 Clareity … Continue reading “Broker Control of Listing Input – Options Emerging”

Real Estate Industry Info Security Benchmarking – 2017

March 27, 2017

When Clareity Consulting is engaged to perform a security assessment, the very first step is to see if an organization’s website has obvious vulnerabilities, and the easiest part of that assessment is determining if the website is running on a web server or web application platform that has known vulnerabilities, which is something typically easily … Continue reading “Real Estate Industry Info Security Benchmarking – 2017”

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