Advisor tenant
Advisor tenant (family office context)
A professional advisor firm (CPA, attorney, wealth manager, insurance broker, custodian, trustee) that holds sensitive information or wire authority on behalf of a principal.
An advisor tenant is any professional advisor firm sitting on the money or sensitive information of a principal or family office — typically CPA, estate attorney, wealth manager or RIA, insurance broker, custodian bank, and trustee. The term "tenant" reflects the software-industry convention (a multi-tenant SaaS) applied to the observation that a principal typically has four to six such advisor firms, each maintaining its own email infrastructure, credential exposure, DMARC/SPF posture, and third-party dependency chain. Losses on family-office principals rarely originate on the principal’s own account; they originate on the CPA’s inbox, the estate attorney’s paralegal, or the wealth manager’s tenant. Comprehensive family-office cyber intelligence therefore requires per-tenant audit: DMARC posture, credential exposure, breach history, and wire-fraud precursor signals on each advisor firm domain and mailbox range. Advisor-tenant coverage is a defining feature of institutional family-office engagements.
A family-office program that covers only the principal misses the actual attack surface. LeakTrace family-office engagements include advisor-tenant audit up to four tenants at baseline, with expanded tenant coverage available for larger networks.