Title and escrow sit directly in the wire-fraud blast radius, the single most catastrophic and often uninsured loss in this business. The industry's answer is ALTA Best Practices, and lenders increasingly expect it. We build the protections behind that standard into your business and document them, so the responsibility does not land on your desk.
ALTA Best Practices, Pillar 3: "Adopt and maintain a written information security plan (WISP) and a written privacy plan to protect NPI as required by local, state, and federal law."
NPI is your clients' nonpublic personal information. ALTA Best Practices are voluntary, but lenders increasingly require them, and the legal duty to protect that information comes from the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Florida also holds title agents to a fiduciary duty over escrow funds.
Sources: ALTA Best Practices Framework, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Fla. Stat. 626.8473. Ocala Cyber builds and documents these safeguards. We do not provide legal advice, and we do not guarantee any regulatory or audit outcome.The attacks aimed at closing funds and your firm's good name, and the defense we put in place for each.
A spoofed email reroutes a buyer's down payment or a loan payoff, and the money is gone, often uninsured, with the liability on you. We lock down your email authentication so the impersonation fails.
An attacker forges your address to send fake wire instructions to a buyer or lender. We set up authentication so messages that are not really from you get rejected.
A web address one letter off from yours gets registered to intercept a closing. We watch for these look-alikes and flag them early.
An attacker quietly sits in a mailbox and waits for a closing, then sends new wire instructions at the last minute. We close the access that makes it possible.
Real protection around your closings and your clients' information, built in and documented in detail.
Detailed documents and real assessments, built around how your business works and yours to keep. No software to buy, and no per-seat contract.
We build and document the information security plan that protects nonpublic information, built around your closing process. Detailed, genuinely useful, and yours to keep.
We set up your email authentication and watch for look-alike domains and impersonation, the exact infrastructure behind wire fraud.
A practical playbook for the moment a suspicious wire instruction appears, so your team acts fast instead of freezing.
We go past the paperwork and harden the systems you use every day: your computers, your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, your office WiFi, and your email authentication.
We work alongside them as your independent security check, confirming the protection you pay for is actually in place. This is a review, not a penetration test.
A local cybersecurity analyst who knows your setup, one call away before a wire goes out or a closing looks off.
Every engagement is scoped to your office's size and needs. Ask for a fixed-scope quote on your free consult.
Ocala Cyber provides cybersecurity assessments, documentation, and advisory services. We do not provide legal advice, and we do not guarantee compliance with ALTA Best Practices, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or any other standard, rule, or regulation, or any particular audit or legal outcome. Citations are provided for context and were verified against the ALTA Best Practices Framework and the cited statutes.