Technology: REALTOR® Secure Program


REALTOR® Secure addresses a range of today's business concerns, from avoiding business interruptions to securing on-line information and transactions. The certification demonstrates REALTOR® organizations meet security industry best practices. Any association, brokerage, MLS or industry vendor is a candidate for the REALTOR® Secure program.
Why certify?

Security White Papers

Want a basic understanding of information security? These executive briefs and white papers provide the background information to review information security for your brokerage, MLS or association.

Instanet Solutions achieves REALTOR® Secure certification

Instanet, a TMS vendor and author of Transaction Desk, demonstrates its use of industry best practices to protect information.

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Program Information

REALTOR® Secure is a security certification program for REALTORS® and MLS service providers. NAR's Center for REALTOR® Technology sponsors and administers the program using third-party security evaluators.

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Self-Review

The REALTOR® Secure self-review provides a tool to assist members and provides a self-rating mechanism to help participants determine whether their security measures meet security industry guidelines prior to engaging security evaluators.

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NAR REALTOR® Secure Program

A technology security best practices program for the real estate industry from the Center for REALTOR® Technology.

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Program Benefits

The REALTOR® Secure program allows REALTOR® organizations to demonstrate to consumers, business partners and employees a commitment to information security.

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REALTOR® Secure Program

Citing the need to protect the confidentiality of customer information and ensuring the highest levels of trust in all real property transactions, NAR introduced a set of guiding principles. The REALTOR® Secure program is a component of those principles and ensures the safeguards are in place to protect data availability, integrity and confidentiality.

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Security Policy

Do you need a security policy? Use this link to SANS Institute to access their security policy templates.

CRT Outreach Initiative

CRT has an outreach program to help REALTORS® understand and use technology.

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Protect Your Network

Read the 20 Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities as published by the SANS Institute.

The Center for REALTOR® Technology

administers the REALTOR® Secure program.

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