Secure
by Design
Scammers love architecture firms: big project budgets, wire transfers and inboxes full of drawings and invoices. Learn to spot the most common scams before they get past the front door.
A firm is only as secure as
its next click.
Most break-ins don't start with a hacker in a hoodie. They start with a normal-looking email, a rushed payment or a friendly phone call. The good news: a few habits stop almost all of them. By the end of this training you'll be able to:
Small odds. Big bills.
Slide the numbers and see how fast a few bad clicks add up for a firm our size.
One wire sent to the wrong account can wipe out the fee on a whole project, and wires are very hard to get back.
Four checks before you click, pay or reply.
Tap each card to flip it. Think of it as building code for your inbox.
Inspect the inbox.
Drag each message into the right pile. On a phone, tap a message, then tap the pile.
Every scam has a counter-move.
Drag each move onto the scam it beats.
Friday, 4:52 PM
An email from "Rob Hirsch" asks you to wire $48,500 to a new account for the Lakeside Library project.
Now say it out loud.
Tap the mic and answer the way you really would. Hank, our hard-hat coach, listens for the safe moves. No mic, or in a quiet studio? Just type it.