Industry benchmark
UK solicitors
Completion-money fraud starts with a spoofed email. A criminal who can send mail that appears to come from a firm can redirect a house purchase, and the money is usually gone the same day. Email authentication is the control that stops it, and it is the one most often left incomplete.
Headline35 domains scanned
31.4%
graded D or worse overall.
2.5
issues per domain on average, counting only real faults rather than suggestions.
B:2 C:22 D:3 F:8
Grade spread across the sector.
Where this sector is weakest
Email authentication
17.1% graded D or worse.
Certificate transparency
8.6% graded D or worse.
Exposed secrets
5.7% graded D or worse.
DNS
2.9% graded D or worse.
Accessibility
2.9% graded D or worse.
How we measure this
Firms listed on the Solicitors Regulation Authority register. We run the same public checks we run for customers, entirely from the public internet, with nothing installed anywhere. We publish sector averages only: no organisation is named, linked or individually reported, and we do not publish findings about any specific business.
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