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Security Auditing compared with Penetration Testing

Recently, while we were discussing a contract, an industry executive needed me to give an explanation of the difference between a “security audit” and a “penetration test.” The party with whom the executive was negotiating the contract had changed the contractual requirement from the one to the other. Since this might be of interest

Report from Clareity’s 17th Annual MLS Executive Workshop

14MarchMatt CohenProfessionalmls

A Short Preamble Clareity’s annual MLS Executive Workshop took place in Scottsdale, Arizona and, as it has every year, the event was sold out. Responding to our post-event survey, MLS executives made comments like: “Great event this year. Always the best networking.” “Informative and insightful. Can’t wait for next year’s workshop.” “As always –

Real Estate Association APIs and Data Standards

20JulyMatt CohenProfessionalstandards

Association management systems have traditionally been silos where most information about the member cannot easily be used to provide a custom per-member experience and solve other business problems. Also, many associations want to use “best of breed” solutions to provide service to members, and the lack of integration with association management systems has made

Preventing Screen Scraping: Policy, Contracts and Technology Evaluation

5JulyMatt CohenProfessionalsecurity

When organizations create policy requiring screen-scraping and other automated attack prevention and monitoring, it’s important for those organizations to be speciﬁc enough to ensure that compliance with policy can be measured in some way. Indeed, it is equally important for the organization to ensure that their technology contracts contain clear and explicit terms that

Computer Vision and Improving Real Estate Search

2NovemberMatt CohenProfessionalstandards, technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Creates New Opportunities Last week I was on a panel at the RESO conference where we talked about software personalization as an important trend. Back in 2008, I wrote some articles about improving prospecting and real estate, one aspect of which was that we needed to get smarter about understanding consumer