Protecting high-value
property transactions
and tenant data.
Real estate firms manage vast portfolios of sensitive financial, personal, and contractual data — and handle large wire transfers that attract sophisticated social engineering and fraud. Spakto secures the full property lifecycle.
Lost to real estate wire fraud annually (FBI)
Of proptech startups have critical API vulnerabilities
Most common attack vector in real estate
Increase in property management ransomware
The adversary reality
for Real Estate.
Understanding who is targeting your sector — and how — is the foundation of an effective security programme. These are the primary threat actors, campaigns, and techniques recorded against real estate organisations in the last 12 months.
Business Email Compromise & Wire Fraud
Proptech Platform API Exploitation
Ransomware Against Property Management Systems
Tenant PII and Lease Data Exfiltration
Lost to real estate wire fraud annually (FBI)
Of proptech startups have critical API vulnerabilities
Most common attack vector in real estate
Increase in property management ransomware
Security pressures unique
to real estate.
Every security challenge in real estate has specific context, specific consequences, and specific adversaries. Generic security programmes don't address them.
High-Value Wire Transfer Fraud
Property transactions regularly involve six and seven-figure wire transfers. BEC attackers compromise conveyancer email accounts and intercept payment instructions at the point of completion.
Distributed Property Management Infrastructure
Property managers operate across hundreds of sites with building management systems, access control, and CCTV — each a potential entry point into corporate networks.
Proptech Application Security
Digital-first real estate platforms expose property search, valuation, and transaction APIs that may contain broken object-level authorisation flaws exposing competitor data.
Sensitive Legal and Contract Data
Title deeds, contracts, and mortgage documents contain information enabling identity theft, fraudulent property transfers, and mortgage fraud at scale.
Purpose-built solutions
for real estate.
Each service is calibrated to the specific threat actors, regulatory environment, and operational constraints of your sector — not repurposed from a generic programme.
Advanced email protection to prevent wire fraud
- Business email compromise detection and response
- DMARC, DKIM, and SPF implementation for conveyancing firms
- Look-alike domain monitoring for client impersonation
- Wire transfer verification workflow security review
Security testing for proptech platforms
- Property management API penetration testing
- Tenant portal and lease management web application assessment
- Building management system network security review
- Smart building IoT device security assessment
24/7 monitoring with real-estate threat intelligence
- Email account compromise detection across conveyancing teams
- Ransomware early warning for property management systems
- Dark-web monitoring for exposed tenant and client data
- Physical access system anomaly alerting
Frameworks
we align to.
We don't just advise on compliance — we build security programmes that satisfy regulatory requirements as a by-product of genuine security posture improvement.
General Data Protection Regulation
Tenant, buyer, and seller personal data must be processed lawfully with appropriate security controls and breach notification obligations.
Anti-Money Laundering Regulations
Property firms must maintain robust client due diligence and suspicious transaction reporting — cybersecurity controls protect the integrity of AML processes.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
Applicable to real estate firms collecting card payments for deposits, rent, and fees — requiring secure payment processing controls.
Measurable results across
real estate engagements.
Successful wire fraud events post-deployment
BEC detection and wire transfer verification controls eliminated successful wire fraud across a 200-branch property management firm over 24 months.
Phishing simulation click rate reduction
Targeted security awareness programme for conveyancing and property management teams reduced phishing susceptibility from 38% to 2% in 90 days.
Tenant data compliance achieved
Data mapping and security controls programme across 12,000 managed properties ensured full GDPR compliance for tenant PII processing and breach response.
Secure your real estate
operations today.
Our security team will map your adversary threat profile, identify the highest-risk attack paths specific to real estate, and design a programme aligned to your operational constraints and regulatory requirements.