The unplanned pivot to an expanded remote workforce compelled the financial sector (and many other verticals) to rapidly deploy infrastructure, hardware, software and support changes that may not have undergone rigorous configuration controls that would have otherwise occurred under normal circumstances. Most financial institutions, especially credit unions and smaller banks, don't embark on this level of change all at once, if at all, and as a result, their attack surface expanded, leaving IT professionals to struggle with visibility into remote devices and home networks that have introduced potential vulnerable blind spots.