EASM for Professional Services Firms
Why professional services firms are targets
Law firms, accountants, consultancies, and advisers sit on exactly what attackers want: confidential deals, financial records, personal data, and payment instructions. That makes them prime targets for phishing and business email compromise (BEC), where an attacker impersonates a partner or a client to redirect a payment or extract sensitive documents.
The most damaging attacks rarely require breaking in. They rely on trust: a spoofed email that looks like it came from your firm’s domain, sent to a client mid-transaction with new bank details. If your domain lacks proper SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records, attackers can spoof it convincingly — and invoice fraud against solicitors and accountants is a well-documented, costly problem.
What EASM covers for a firm
- Email authentication — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration that stops attackers spoofing your domain to defraud clients.
- Forgotten subdomains — old client portals, secure file-share sites, and microsites that may still be live and vulnerable.
- Exposed systems — document management, VPN, or remote-access panels reachable from the public internet.
- TLS and security headers — keeping client-facing portals encrypted, trusted, and hardened.
- Known vulnerabilities in the public software your firm runs.
How SurfaceLoop handles this
SurfaceLoop checks your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records and flags the gaps that let attackers spoof your firm’s domain — the exact weakness behind most invoice-fraud and business email compromise attempts against professional services.
See DNS & Email Spoofing feature →Meeting client due diligence
Increasingly, winning and keeping clients means answering security questionnaires. Enterprise clients, and their auditors, ask whether you continuously monitor your external attack surface and how you handle newly discovered exposures. For a small firm without a security team, that can be a hard question to answer credibly.
SurfaceLoop gives you a straightforward answer. It monitors your domains continuously, keeps a record of findings and fixes, and presents results in language a managing partner can act on — not raw scanner output. You can demonstrate maturity and a real process for one flat £149/mo, without hiring or outsourcing to a consultancy — and prove it first with a 14-day free trial on your own domains.
Frequently asked questions
- How does EASM help prevent invoice fraud against our firm? +
- Most invoice fraud starts with a spoofed email from your domain. SurfaceLoop checks your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records and flags weaknesses that let attackers impersonate your firm. Fixing these makes it far harder to send convincing fraudulent emails that appear to come from your partners.
- Can SurfaceLoop help us answer client security questionnaires? +
- Yes. It provides continuous monitoring of your external attack surface and a record of findings and remediation, which is exactly what due-diligence questionnaires ask about. You can demonstrate an ongoing process rather than a one-off check, presented in plain English rather than technical scanner output.
- We have old client portals -- can EASM find them? +
- That is a core strength. SurfaceLoop's automated discovery finds forgotten subdomains such as old client portals and secure file-share sites, then checks them for expired certificates, exposed panels, and known vulnerabilities so they do not become an unmonitored entry point.
- Is this affordable for a small firm? +
- Yes. SurfaceLoop is one flat plan at £149/mo with everything included, published openly and billed by invoice -- a fraction of hiring a security team or engaging a consultancy. It starts with a 14-day free trial on your own domains, so you see real findings before committing.