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.
How the New FTC Rule Protects Health App Users and What It Means for Businesses and BYOD workforces
June 3, 2024
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How the New FTC Rule Protects Health App Users and What It Means for Businesses and BYOD workforces
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently updated its Health Breach Notification Rule to address the evolving landscape of digital health applications and connected devices. This update is particularly significant as it strengthens protections for users’ sensitive health data, ensuring that breaches are promptly reported and managed to mitigate potential harm. In this blog we’ll highlight […]
Running Local: The Surprising Security and Remote Connectivity Sweetspot
May 31, 2024
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Running Local: The Surprising Security and Remote Connectivity Sweetspot
The industry is brimming with remote connectivity solutions, but what if the solution was right here, under our noses the entire time? By running locally, organizations can ensure they get the productivity, security and compliance advantages, without the loss of productivity and latency issues that come with VDIs. In this blog post, we explain how. […]
The Detrimental Impact of Remote Work on IT Productivity (and What to Do to Turn Things Around)
May 23, 2024
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The Detrimental Impact of Remote Work on IT Productivity (and What to Do to Turn Things Around)
Modern businesses are increasingly adopting remote work solutions. This is driven by advancements in technology, changing employee expectations, and the long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote work enhances employee productivity, allows for business continuity, helps organizations broaden their talent pool and increases employee job satisfaction. However, remote work also comes at a cost for […]
Citrix vs Venn: Comparing Remote Work Security Solutions for BYOD
May 22, 2024
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Citrix vs Venn: Comparing Remote Work Security Solutions for BYOD
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies have become extremely popular in organizations, especially with the rise of remote and hybrid work. Ideally, the use of personal devices can significantly enhance the user experience and increase productivity. Users can work from anywhere, at any time. However, this new approach also means that many companies are trusting contractors, partners, employees, […]
Ensuring Compliance: Understanding the FTC’s Safeguards Rule and Its Challenges for Remote Work
May 20, 2024
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Ensuring Compliance: Understanding the FTC’s Safeguards Rule and Its Challenges for Remote Work
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent enhancement of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Safeguards Rule introduces a critical requirement: businesses must notify the FTC within 30 days of discovering a data breach affecting 500 or more consumers. This heightened focus on information security and timely breach reporting aims to protect consumers’ nonpublic personal information (NPI), particularly […]
Securing Contractor Access: Top 5 Considerations
May 9, 2024
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Securing Contractor Access: Top 5 Considerations
Contractors and third-party vendors are key in any enterprise business strategy. From cost savings to relieving employees from non-core tasks to providing access to expertise, out-sourced employees help organizations scale and increase profitability. But contractor access to company resources also necessitates ensuring the integrity and security of company data. In this article, we delve into […]
Embracing Change: Modernizing an Organization’s Secure Remote Work Strategy with BYOD
May 2, 2024
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Embracing Change: Modernizing an Organization’s Secure Remote Work Strategy with BYOD
Transitioning to remote work in today’s business world is a major challenge that involves balancing security, compliance, and usability. Maintaining this balance is crucial for success. We recently spoke with an executive from a top provider of business processing services. Their company helps organizations improve operations and efficiency. Many institutions, government agencies, and various other […]
Ready to Choose a VDI Provider? Ask These 9 Questions First
April 29, 2024
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Ready to Choose a VDI Provider? Ask These 9 Questions First
The business world is riding a wave of change as remote work reshapes our approach to the daily grind. Gone are the days of juggling separate work and personal computers – now, it’s all about one device that does it all. These devices need to keep up with our employee’s fast-paced lifestyle when it comes […]
Remote Work on BYOD Laptops After an Insider Threat
April 23, 2024
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Remote Work on BYOD Laptops After an Insider Threat
Organizations constantly struggle to balance strong security measures with the need for smooth operations for their remote workforce. We recently spoke with a communications company that was grappling with such issues when a security incident shook their operations. They needed more robust security protocols to secure sensitive data and systems on BYOD laptops. Their current […]
Unlocking BYOD Potential: A Real Estate Company’s Holistic Tech Approach
April 19, 2024
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Unlocking BYOD Potential: A Real Estate Company’s Holistic Tech Approach
In today’s dynamic business landscape, where remote work has become the new norm and employees increasingly use personal devices for work-related tasks, ensuring the security of endpoints has never been more critical. This challenge is particularly pronounced for organizations embracing a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, where employees use their personal laptops, tablets, and smartphones […]
Navigating Employee Data Privacy: APRA and the Evolution of Workplace Privacy
April 17, 2024
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Navigating Employee Data Privacy: APRA and the Evolution of Workplace Privacy
Americans might soon be granted a basic right to digital privacy. The American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), introduced by two senior US lawmakers as a bipartisan deal, aims at establishing a comprehensive national digital privacy law akin to the EU’s GDPR. This legislation, if enacted, would regulate how companies collect, utilize and share Americans’ online […]
The Cost of Lost Hardware: How BPOs Can Save Millions on Shipping Devices
April 12, 2024
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The Cost of Lost Hardware: How BPOs Can Save Millions on Shipping Devices
You know the drill. You hire a new remote employee that will provide overseas customer services for your client, you ship them their device, onboard them, invest in training – only to find out within a few months that they’ve moved on to another BPO. Now you need to find a new employee, and there’s […]
Strategies for Streamlining Remote Agent Onboarding to Minimize Expenses and IT Challenges
April 10, 2024
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Strategies for Streamlining Remote Agent Onboarding to Minimize Expenses and IT Challenges
Remote work rose to the forefront during the pandemic, but it has not faded away. A recent Customer Contact Week (CCW) Digital Market Study reveals that nearly 90% of contact center leaders believe agents will largely be working remotely by 2030. This “Second Remote Work Transformation”, following the first transformation that occurred during the pandemic, […]
6 Ways to Protect your Data when Working with Third-party Contractors and Consultants
April 8, 2024
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6 Ways to Protect your Data when Working with Third-party Contractors and Consultants
Many modern organizations are enjoying the productivity and flexibility benefits of employing a non-traditional workforce. Be it remote third party contractors, offshore workers, freelancers, gig economy workers, or other 1099s, these employees provide access to global talent, localization expertise, flexible working hours, cost-effectiveness, speed-to-market and non-core workload reduction. However, alongside these numerous advantages, there are […]
Secure BYO-PC Transformation for a Healthcare Services Organization
March 28, 2024
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Secure BYO-PC Transformation for a Healthcare Services Organization
In the ever-evolving landscape of remote work, where flexibility and efficiency reign supreme, organizations grapple with the challenge of balancing accessibility and flexibility with security. We recently spoke with a healthcare services organization with a large distributed organization. They have a large number of remote and traveling employees as well as many contractors. The company […]
The Future of Remote Work is Local: Addressing the 5 VDI Shortcomings
March 19, 2024
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The Future of Remote Work is Local: Addressing the 5 VDI Shortcomings
Work is changing. Employees are working remotely, from multiple locations and devices. They are accessing SaaS applications and conducting video calls. They are also expecting a frictionless technological experience. Yet, VDI has not. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) still operates with the same complex and high-latency methods that have characterized them for the past two decades. […]
Why VDI Won’t Cut It for Healthcare Organizations (and Which Solution Can)
March 14, 2024
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Why VDI Won’t Cut It for Healthcare Organizations (and Which Solution Can)
To ensure uninterrupted patient care, medical professionals need reliable and secure access to patient data and healthcare systems. However, the geographical distribution of health centers and personnel, operational variability between locations and entities, the need to support BYOD, remote work, acquisitions and the requirement to rapidly onboard employees to a wide range of apps, poses […]
The True Cost of Shipping Laptops to Remote & Offshore Employees
March 12, 2024
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The True Cost of Shipping Laptops to Remote & Offshore Employees
Today, remote and hybrid work has become ubiquitous. With this shift, IT teams are being challenged more now than ever with shipping out more laptops to remote employees, contractors and offshore workers. The practice of preparing laptops to send out to new employees and retrieve them after they leave the company is time consuming, tedious […]
Making the Transition from VDI to a Secure BYOD Solution
March 7, 2024
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Making the Transition from VDI to a Secure BYOD Solution
Remote work’s growing popularity has created an increased demand for secure remote connectivity solutions. However, traditional approaches to implementing secure remote work — such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) — are costly, inefficient, and ill-suited to the needs of the modern enterprise. Companies looking to modernize their remote work infrastructure should investigate secure BYOD (Bring […]
Extending MDM to Laptops: How to Enable Secure BYO-PC for Remote Work
February 21, 2024
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Extending MDM to Laptops: How to Enable Secure BYO-PC for Remote Work
With an increasingly mobile workforce, employees have come to expect flexibility. They want flexibility with where they work and what devices they want to use, not to mention having remote and hybrid working locations options. In fact, according to this Forbes article, having flexibility in when and where you work is the #1 requested employee […]
BYOD Pros and Cons: Balancing Flexibility and Security
February 21, 2024
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BYOD Pros and Cons: Balancing Flexibility and Security
The rise of remote and hybrid work has made Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies more attractive than ever. Allowing remote employees and contractors to use their personal computers for work eliminates the cost and complexity of managing corporate laptops – and has a positive impact on user productivity. That said, BYOD adoption comes with […]
Venn Receives Recognition for Pioneering Secure BYOPC for Remote Work with Multiple Industry Awards
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Venn Receives Recognition for Pioneering Secure BYOPC for Remote Work with Multiple Industry Awards
New York, June 22, 2023 — Venn, innovators of the first purpose-built patented technology for Secure BYOPC, is proud to announce that it has been honored by three industry organizations for its groundbreaking achievements in providing a secure workspace for remote work. Venn secures remote work on any unmanaged or BYOD computer with a radically simplified […]
Ensuring Data Security When Employees Work Remotely
December 14, 2023
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Ensuring Data Security When Employees Work Remotely
Remote work skyrocketed out of necessity during the pandemic. Pew Research Center reports that the percentage of remote workers stands at 35%, less than the high of 55% in October 2020, but dramatically above pre-pandemic levels of 7%. Much of this may be due to the fact that organizations that offer remote or hybrid work […]
Venn Software named as a Sample Vendor for BYOPC Security in two Gartner® Hype Cycles™
August 21, 2023
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Venn Software named as a Sample Vendor for BYOPC Security in two Gartner® Hype Cycles™
Venn Software named as a Sample Vendor for BYOPC Security in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Endpoint Security, 2023, and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for I&O Digital Workplace Transformations, 2023 The recently published Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Endpoint Security, 2023, and the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for I&O Digital Workplace Transformation, 2023 examine innovations for […]
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