Every year Matt gets calls when industry organizations have been hacked. A hacking incident can damage reputations, impede an organization’s ability to conduct business, and cause financial harm. Such incidents could often have been prevented had the business managers taken reasonable steps to protect the organization.
Matt is the most experienced real estate security auditor, and provides security audits for many top MLSs, Associations, brokerages, and technology companies. The audit covers information security policies and procedures, human resources practices, physical security, networking, device configurations, OS and platform configurations/updates, software security, and more. The audit includes use of automated testing tools, manual testing, and both security standards-based proprietary checklists. Matt will educate staff on use of each security tool and checklist, in as much depth as makes sense for your staff; using these tools, checklists, and methods will help your organization maintain security over time. If needed, Matt will also evaluate SaaS contracts; Matt will non-intrusively test and provide guidelines for evaluating the security posture of any third party software services that may be in use.
Testimonials
“Information security is a never ending, core responsibility for associations and MLSs and one that HAR takes seriously. HAR recently completed our fourth security audit with Matt and once again we have identified new ways to improve. The ongoing threat of cyber attacks is real but the need for heightened security is about more than technology: Matt helps us evaluate our internal policies and procedures, physical security, employee/personnel practices, and much more. Matt helps us keep an eye on what our vendors are doing to meet our security requirements and also helps us protect our members by presenting security best practices in a way that is easy to understand and implement.” – Houston Association of Realtors
“Matt thoroughly reviewed CMLS operations and provided a detailed, prioritized list of the security risks facing our organization. They provided us with the information and tools we needed to make our systems more secure and to maintain better security over time. The follow-up has been great, too.” – Canopy MLS
“Matt did a great job for us with the security audit. I can’t imagine any other firm providing an audit anywhere near as valuable and thorough as the services we received. [We] will be a much better operated company as a result of Matt’s evaluation and advice.” – MLSListings