Reviews and accountability—If your crowdsourcing platform provider doesn’t have a methodical testing
and QA process, you may want to consider partnering with someone else. Content and context-aware
controls must be in place to guarantee that no one has access to any other code than what’s necessary
to complete their work. Furthermore, the most advanced crowdsourcing platform providers measure,
monitor and hold those in the gig economy accountable for every action. For example, making a
contractor’s compensation contingent upon the cleanliness of their code, collaborative community spirit
and adherence to the terms of work.
In addition, availability should be examined as a security posture of your development lifecycle. The
weakest link in this chain will govern the availability of what you can deliver using a gig economy
workforce. Security controls need to be in place to protect against denial of service, disaster recovery,
encrypted communications and more.
Rating systems—In the same way we’d feel more secure taking a ride from a 5-star driver, or purchasing
a positively reviewed product when shopping online, you should be partnering with a crowdsourcing
platform provider that uses rating systems to rank their members. A partner that can provide detailed
developer insight, such as reliability, speed, accuracy, consistency, overall participation/earning/success
rate and more (in relation to their peers), paints a distinct picture of the already-vetted talent quality you’ll
get when leveraging that crowd community.
Developers, data scientists, designers, and testers in the gig economy appreciate having these facts
speak for themselves, as the security and confidence of a documentable track record helps to establish
credibility.
Crowdsourcing preserves privacy, limits risk, fosters collaboration
Securing software development without sacrificing the rapid pace true innovation demands is critical to
successful crowdsourcing with the gig economy. Security should be an element intrinsic to the platform
you select—from the first interaction to the virtual workforce registering and competing on projects, to
ultimately delivering finished solutions.
Secure crowdsourcing strategies and platforms empower organizations to benefit from the best technical
talent anywhere in the world. The gig economy workforce has in-demand skills needed for cutting edge
work that they are looking to lend companies savvy enough to use it.