Scott Lavery is the SVP of Marketing at Venn where he is responsible for developing and amplifying Venn’s brand voice and accelerating growth. Scott is an experienced marketing leader in the technology/SaaS space with over 15 years of experience in brand development, demand generation, and product marketing.
HIPAA’s Biggest Security Overhaul in a Decade: What It Means for Unmanaged Devices
April 16, 2026
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HIPAA’s Biggest Security Overhaul in a Decade: What It Means for Unmanaged Devices
A compliance rule that hasn’t seen a major overhaul since 2013 is about to become dramatically more demanding. The HIPAA Security Rule – the regulation that sets the bar for protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) – is in the middle of its most significant proposed update in over a decade. And the gap most […]
How to Secure AI Apps for Remote Workforces (Without Blocking Productivity)
April 10, 2026
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How to Secure AI Apps for Remote Workforces (Without Blocking Productivity)
Your remote workforce is already using AI apps. The question isn’t whether to allow it — it’s whether you have any control over which apps can access company data, and which ones can’t. That distinction matters more than most organizations realize. According to research tracking shadow AI adoption, nearly half of all employees now access […]
Forrester Just Retired Endpoint Security. Here’s What That Means for BYOD
April 1, 2026
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Forrester Just Retired Endpoint Security. Here’s What That Means for BYOD
In February 2026, Forrester announced it was retiring The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security – a market evaluation it had published under various names for over a decade. The reason: EPP (endpoint protection platform) and EDR (endpoint detection and response) have converged to the point where evaluating them separately no longer serves enterprise buyers. Vendors that […]
How to Manage Contractor Devices Securely Without Full MDM Control
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How to Manage Contractor Devices Securely Without Full MDM Control
Contractors won’t accept full MDM control of their personal devices — and honestly, they shouldn’t have to. But that doesn’t mean you’re out of options. It means MDM is the wrong tool for the job. The goal of contractor device management is not to control the device itself. It is to protect the work that […]
5 Unmanaged Device Security Solutions: From MDM to Secure Local Workspaces
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5 Unmanaged Device Security Solutions: From MDM to Secure Local Workspaces
Ninety percent of organizations allow access to corporate data from personal devices. The logic is straightforward: hiring globally, supporting contractors, enabling BYOD, and reducing hardware costs all require some tolerance for devices the company does not own. The problem is that device ownership and security governance have traditionally been treated as the same thing — […]
What Is Network DLP? How It Works and Why Context Matters When Securing Network Access
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What Is Network DLP? How It Works and Why Context Matters When Securing Network Access
Every byte of sensitive data that leaves a device travels across a network. And the network layer – the moment data is in motion – is where most organizations try to enforce their data loss prevention controls. It’s also where most traditional approaches make a costly mistake: they treat all traffic the same. Full-tunnel VPNs, […]
What Is Cloud DLP? How It Works and Why It Matters in 2026
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What Is Cloud DLP? How It Works and Why It Matters in 2026
The perimeter is gone. Sensitive data no longer lives safely behind a firewall – it moves across SaaS platforms, cloud storage buckets, contractor laptops, and home networks, often faster than security teams can track it. The tools built to protect that data were designed for a different era, and many organizations are discovering the gap […]
What Is Blue Border™? How Venn’s Secure Enclave Works
March 20, 2026
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What Is Blue Border™? How Venn’s Secure Enclave Works
The Answer to the Contractor BYOD Security Problem Most IT leaders didn’t set out to build a third-party access security problem. It happened gradually. A few remote employees started working from personal laptops. Then contractors joined from across the country — or the world. Then the request came in to get everyone productive quickly, without […]
What the Stryker Attack Reveals About BYOD Security
March 18, 2026
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What the Stryker Attack Reveals About BYOD Security
The cyberattack disclosed by Stryker on March 11, 2026 is a reminder that some of the most significant endpoint risks do not begin with malware executing on the device itself. Sometimes, the greater risk sits in the control layer above it. Stryker said it experienced a global network disruption in its Microsoft environment as a […]
The Best Endpoint Protection Strategies for BYOD Environments
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The Best Endpoint Protection Strategies for BYOD Environments
BYOD is now a standard part of modern work. Employees, contractors, consultants, and offshore teams all need fast access to work apps and data from personal laptops and phones. That flexibility speeds onboarding and lowers hardware costs, but it also creates new endpoint risk when company data lives alongside personal activity. The best endpoint protection […]
VDI Desktop as a Service: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Alternatives
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VDI Desktop as a Service: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Alternatives
VDI desktop as a service is a cloud-based model in which a third-party provider hosts your full desktop environment in a data center. Instead of buying physical servers or upgrading employee computers, your organization pays a recurring fee to stream files, applications, and the operating system to almost any laptop or tablet over the internet. […]
Considering Desktop as a Service for Remote Teams? Benefits, Drawbacks, Providers, and Alternatives
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Considering Desktop as a Service for Remote Teams? Benefits, Drawbacks, Providers, and Alternatives
Desktop as a service (DaaS) is a cloud computing model in which a third-party provider delivers virtual desktop environments to users over the internet. It removes the need for physical on-site computers, allowing employees to securely access their personalized desktop, applications, and files from almost any device. With desktop as a service, users can securely […]
Addressing Contractor Security: A $200K Laptop Spend or Blue Border™
March 4, 2026
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Addressing Contractor Security: A $200K Laptop Spend or Blue Border™
Contractor Security Doesn’t Have to Strain the Bottom Line Contractors and offshore teams are how modern companies scale. You hire fast, staff globally, and keep momentum without expanding headcount and overhead. But there’s a tradeoff most teams quietly accept: contractors often work on personal laptops that the business doesn’t own or manage. For a while, […]
What Is the ABC Test? A Guide for Hiring Contractors
December 9, 2025
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What Is the ABC Test? A Guide for Hiring Contractors
Hiring independent contractors offers organizations flexibility, speed, and access to specialized talent. But in many states—especially California—properly classifying workers is not just a best practice, it’s a legal requirement. At the center of this conversation is the ABC Test: the standard increasingly used to determine whether a worker is truly an independent contractor or must […]
Why California’s ABC Test Makes Issuing Laptops to Contractors a Growing Liability — And How Blue Border™ Solves It
November 24, 2025
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Why California’s ABC Test Makes Issuing Laptops to Contractors a Growing Liability — And How Blue Border™ Solves It
Across California – and increasingly in other states with strict worker-classification rules – organizations are facing a new challenge: how do you secure work for contractors without exposing yourself to misclassification risk? Under California’s ABC Test, issuing company-managed laptops to independent contractors can undermine their classification and trigger steep compliance and financial consequences. Yet many […]
A New Wave of Citrix and Cisco Zero-Day Attacks Highlights the Risk of Centralized Remote Access
November 13, 2025
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A New Wave of Citrix and Cisco Zero-Day Attacks Highlights the Risk of Centralized Remote Access
Why Local-First Security Solutions Like Venn’s Blue Border Are Emerging as Popular Alternatives to VDI A surge of newly discovered vulnerabilities targeting Citrix NetScaler, Cisco ISE, and related gateway infrastructure is shining a bright light on a long-standing problem in remote access security: the most critical systems in traditional VDI and VPN architectures are also […]
Building the Business Case for BYOD
September 25, 2025
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Building the Business Case for BYOD
BYOD as the Foundation for Remote and Extended Workforces When organizations talk about “remote work,” the conversation often focuses on full-time employees working from home. But in practice, today’s workforce is far more complex. Alongside employees, companies rely heavily on an extended workforce – contractors, consultants, and offshore teams to drive projects, deliver services, and […]
Building a Successful BYOD POC: An Intro Guide for IT Leaders
September 17, 2025
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Building a Successful BYOD POC: An Intro Guide for IT Leaders
Eliminating Complexity in the Era of Remote Work The rapid expansion of remote and distributed workforces is forcing IT teams to rethink how they scale operations. Traditional approaches – provisioning, shipping, and managing company-owned laptops or standing up costly, complex VDI deployments – are creating bottlenecks that slow down productivity and drain budgets. To keep […]
Citrix Exploits Are More Than Just Flaws – They’re Symptoms of Fragile Infrastructure
August 27, 2025
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Citrix Exploits Are More Than Just Flaws – They’re Symptoms of Fragile Infrastructure
Infrastructure in Crisis When Citrix discloses a zero-day attack – or worse, is already being exploited before the patch is released – today’s cybersecurity teams face more than a reactive scramble. The newly revealed CVE‑2025‑7775 is actively being exploited. But this isn’t just about yet another software flaw – it’s a stark indicator that our […]
What is a Secure Enclave? Why It’s the Future of BYOD Security
July 1, 2025
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What is a Secure Enclave? Why It’s the Future of BYOD Security
The way we work has changed. Personal devices are now a staple of the modern workforce – especially for contractors, remote employees, and offshore teams. But as organizations embrace Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the need to protect sensitive data and applications on unmanaged endpoints has never been more critical. In addition, as organizations […]
Top Azure Virtual Desktop Alternative for BYOD Security
June 25, 2025
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Top Azure Virtual Desktop Alternative for BYOD Security
Securing remote and BYOD workforces with AVD virtual desktop or other VDI platforms often means high costs, complex infrastructure, and user frustration from lag and latency. Venn offers a simpler, smarter alternative. Powered by Secure Enclave technology, Venn isolates and protects work data locally on any BYOD or unmanaged device – no virtual desktop or […]
Beyond the Browser: The Hidden AI Risk No One Is Talking About
June 24, 2025
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Beyond the Browser: The Hidden AI Risk No One Is Talking About
AI Doesn’t Just Live in the Browser From Microsoft Copilot that’s embedded across the entire Microsoft Office Suite to generative AI tools built into locally installed design, coding, and analytics apps – AI is no longer just a cloud service you access via a web browser. AI is built into the operating systems and natively […]
Gartner Security & Risk 2025 Recap: Three Key Takeaways That Hit Home
June 18, 2025
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Gartner Security & Risk 2025 Recap: Three Key Takeaways That Hit Home
Last week, Venn exhibited at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit for the first time – and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The conversations were not only validating – they were fueled by a sense of urgency. Across dozens of interactions, three key themes kept surfacing from IT and security leaders […]
Endpoint DLP Best Practices (And Why Venn Is the Better Alternative)
June 4, 2025
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Endpoint DLP Best Practices (And Why Venn Is the Better Alternative)
Endpoint DLP Is Due for a Re-imagining As more organizations embrace remote work and hire contractors and consultants, traditional endpoint DLP (Data Loss Prevention) strategies are showing their age. Legacy approaches like full-device management, VDI, and agent-heavy endpoint solutions were designed primarily for company-owned laptops; not ideal for today’s work landscape where personal PCs and […]
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