Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Business from Digital & Legal Threats (1-8 Hours)
- How Technology Can Ruin Your Real Estate Business
It is no longer a secret that with the proliferation of Wire Transfer Fraud, Listing Scams, and many other digital schemes, the real estate industry has become a major target for hackers and fraudsters. They realize REALTORS® is often involved in large transactions and gathering valuable information and typically don't have the proper training, tools, or resources to do so. In this session, you will learn how to assess what current cybersecurity weaknesses you may have, how to protect yourself and your clients with very easy to implement low tech solutions, and how to navigate several laws, NAR policies, and more to ensure you and your clients survive this perilous digital world.
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Everything You Need to Know About Cyber Liability Insurance (1-2 Hours)
Most real estate professionals believe that if they are ever the victim of a digital crime such as being hacked and suffer a data breach or held for ransom, or have a client fall for a wire transfer scam that their Errors & Omission (E&O) or General Liability (GL) insurance will cover them. What if I told you that they won’t help you at all in the digital/cyber world. In this session, you will learn what Cyber Liability (CL) insurance is, why you need it, how to pick the right policy, and more.
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How to Protect You and Your Clients from Wire Transfer Fraud (1-2 Hours)
Wire Transfer Fraud is the most prevalent and dangerous scam targeting the real estate industry. The sad reality is one bad click by a buyer can ruin a transaction and their financial livelihood. In this session, you will learn what wire transfer fraud is, how it works, how easy it is to dupe a buyer into falling for this scheme, and most importantly the steps you need to take to educate and protect your customers from falling for it.
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Technology & the Law, the Code of Ethics and Fair Housing (1-8 Hours)
As a REALTOR®, from the day you get your license you are set up for failure in the Cybersecurity world because the Code of Ethics and state laws require the collection, proper storage, and eventual destruction of all communications and documentation related to your business. And seeing as you’ve probably never had any proper training on how to do this, you (and the real estate industry in general) have become major targets for hackers and fraudsters. Plus there are many other laws, articles in the Code of Ethics that can expose you and your clients’ to potential dangers. In this session, we will explore how to navigate this complex digital world and provide you easy to implement solutions to protect yourself in the cyber world.
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Top Apps, Tricks & Tech Tools for REALTOR Safety (1-2 Hours)
For some reason, a lot of criminals target real estate professionals with bad intent, and each year many around the country are physically attacked with often scary results. In this session, we will cover why they target REALTORS and provide you many apps, tricks, and tech tools that can help protect or even save your life.
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Top Scams Targeting the Real Estate Industry (1-2 Hours)
The real estate industry is constantly under attack by hackers, fraudsters, and other entities with malicious intent. In this session, we will explore some of the main scams targeting the real estate world including Wire Transfer Fraud, Listing Scams, Business Email Compromise (BEC) phishing, ADA Compliance of websites, and more, but most importantly how to protect you and your clients from these devious schemes.
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