Buyer gets spoofed closing instructions from an agent inbox that has been silently forwarded for weeks. Wire goes to the attacker. You find out when the title company calls asking where the funds are. SentinelSMB watches for the hijack before the instructions go out.
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An attacker sits in a hijacked agent inbox for weeks, learns the closing timeline, then sends spoofed wire instructions to the buyer from a lookalike domain right before funding. 75-300 thousand dollars gone per incident.
Silent forwarding rule added to an agent account during an open house rush. Every MLS alert, every offer, every client conversation copied to an external inbox until a competitor knows your book better than you do.
Purchase agreements, loan applications, and tax returns all move through agent email. One compromised account exposes SSNs, DOBs, and bank accounts — triggering state breach notification in every state you do business.
SentinelSMB provides the continuous-monitoring, access-control, and incident-response controls these frameworks require. Pro subscribers get the audit-ready evidence package.
Every state imposes a fiduciary duty on real estate licensees to protect client funds and information. Documented continuous monitoring is becoming the standard of care for satisfying that duty.
Every US state requires notification when personal information is accessed without authorization. SentinelSMB produces the audit trail and exact detection timestamps regulators require.
Real estate E&O carriers now bundle cyber endorsements that require continuous monitoring at renewal. SentinelSMB generates the underwriter-ready evidence package automatically.
The FTC uses Section 5 of the FTC Act to hold brokerages accountable for reasonable security of consumer information. The current baseline includes continuous monitoring of the email accounts that hold closing data.
Directly, no — SentinelSMB monitors the brokerage's accounts. But most closing-wire fraud originates from a compromised brokerage or title inbox, not from the buyer's account. Locking down your side of the thread is the single highest-impact intervention.
Yes. The attacker typically impersonates a party already in the email thread — and that is usually the agent. You are the trusted sender whose voice the buyer recognizes. Protecting the agent mailbox is protecting the whole transaction.
SentinelSMB monitors the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace account your transaction software logs into. Anything that touches your email (including CRMs, eSign tools, MLS integrations) is covered because the underlying cloud account is monitored.
SentinelSMB flags anomalous access to dormant accounts and abnormal sign-ins. Departed-agent account cleanup is a major risk in real estate — we surface the accounts you forgot to disable.
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