Understanding the Risk and How to Address It In the D.A.N.G.E.R. Report, compiled for NAR by Stefan Swanepoel, a “security breach” is listed as a “high risk” for MLSs, though it is quite clear that the risk is to the industry more generally. According to Stefan, “Cyber criminals could attack the industry, breach the … Read more
Don’t Be Afraid of the ‘Audit’ Information security laws are still a patchwork nationwide, but an increasing number of industry organizations are finding that they need our assistance to comply with laws and other applicable requirements. The purpose of this post is to help demystify the process. Many industry organizations are just realizing all … Read more
Security Lets Us Provide a Better User Experience A Ten-Year Journey In James C. Collins’ bestselling business book, “Good to Great”, he introduces the concept of the flywheel. Outside of business, a flywheel is a heavy wheel that, once momentum is built, can store and provide consistently great power to a machine even when … Read more
How Many Times Must a Tech Provider Download the Same Listings? I received a call recently from an MLS administrator who wanted to talk about a RETS issue that had been bothering him. His MLS charges a small fee to subscribers for a RETS feed; the fee covers the costs related to the feed, … Read more
In 2011 and 2012, Realtor.com was under the gun to solve the problem it had with screen scrapers, where sites were “scraping” data off of their site and using it in unauthorized contexts. For those that haven’t been watching industry news sites discussion of screen scraping, scraping is when someone copies large amounts of … Read more
