by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Why CRE Sellers Should Run Cyber Due Diligence Before Listing If you’re preparing to sell, you already know the drill: clean up the rent roll, get the Phase I current, make sure the lease abstracts match reality, and resolve open maintenance items before a...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Why Cyber Risk Now Belongs on the CRE Due Diligence Checklist We both know how a CRE transaction comes together. Phase I environmental. Title and survey. Lease audits. Rent roll verification. Tenant credit review. Thirty to sixty days of coordinated diligence before...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Why Uploading Files to AI Tools Puts CRE Firms at Risk It’s the last Thursday of the month, and Matilda* on your team is trying to close out common area maintenance reconciliations before the quarter ends. There’s a stack of vendor invoices to...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Why BMS Vendor Installations Are a Hidden Security Blind Spot for CRE Owners Ask any commercial real estate owner about their building’s boundaries and they can walk you through the survey without hesitation – the property line, the setbacks, the easement...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
How to Audit What AI Your Employees Are Actually Using Shadow IT required a purchase. Shadow AI requires a paste. That’s the entire problem in one sentence. No procurement request. No IT ticket. No approval chain to slow anyone down – just a browser tab...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Most New Jersey and New York City-area businesses treat business continuity – keeping the business going after a disruption – as an IT problem. But when a disruption hits, the real damage shows up on the balance sheet – lost revenue, denied insurance...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Why Finance Teams Are the New Cybersecurity Blind Spot Most organizations think of cybersecurity as something that happens in the server room or inside the IT department. But more and more, the biggest risks aren’t coming from the places you’d expect. They’re coming...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Most finance leaders and property teams assume they’re in decent shape with cybersecurity. Rent payments are encrypted, cameras are online, vendors pass their audits, and the insurance policy is paid up. On the surface, everything looks fine. But there’s a quiet shift...
by Mike Mullin | Risk & Governance
Zero Trust has been talked about for years as a “security architecture,” but that framing misses the point. Today, Zero Trust is fundamentally a financial‑risk strategy – one that directly affects insurability, regulatory exposure, operational continuity, and...
