The big worry in outsourcing and offshoring has always been data theft. There are armed guards situated outside the doors of many outsourcing companies and heavy security even on the inside.
But the bigger threat may have less to do breaking into the building and stealing intellectual property than the plume of smoke emerging from a volcano in Iceland or a terrorist attack in India. Natural disasters, geopolitical unrest and infrastructure breakdowns can wreak havoc on outsourcing or offshoring operations. And even worse, they almost always surprise the companies doing business there.
