The cybersecurity workforce is becoming more invisible. Trends in employment and talent seeking for specialized skills are increasingly shifting organizational workloads from employees to nonemployees. But just like the employee workforce, this invisible workforce still needs access to and participation in the organizations data and IT infrastructure. Cybercriminals have discovered this inattention to securing the invisible workforce and are working harder to exploit that. The wrong approach to these workers is to simply trust that the security practices, policies and infrastructure on their end is at least as good as your organization’s.”]

