Enterprises are embracing on-demand freelance help but the practice, while growing, opens up entirely new avenues of cyber-risk. The first step in managing gig-economy risk is performing a secondary risk assessment, according to Netskope’s James Christiansen. He encapsulated the true story of Bob, a freelancer who outsourced his own gig to an organization in China. The lack of visibility into who can access the code means it could end up in an open-source repository somewhere.
Source: https://threatpost.com/the-gig-economy-data-security-risks/166359/