Since the emergence of COVID-19, fraudsters have launched fraud campaigns against critical services that serve as lifelines to the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Americans have lost more than $192 million due to COVID-related fraud this year, and we expect the amount to escalate further as the pandemic continues.
Given the massive shift to a remote-first workforce, it is very apparent how bad actors have begun using the backdoor to infiltrate the organization's network via employees’ personal devices or routers, which clearly lack stringent BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies and in turn are rarely patched. Due to the attack surface’s exponential growth, many organizations are left with no choice but to adopt a Zero Trust framework.