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.
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 […]
