How a 100,000-Member Legal Network Secured Its Hybrid Workforce Without IT Overhead

A prominent national legal organization with nearly 100,000 members was searching for a modern, secure way to support its rapidly expanding workforce. Under the leadership of a new CEO, the organization set out to scale responsibly – maintaining a lean, cost-efficient IT strategy that could support full-time employees, contractors, and interns without adding operational overhead.

Originally an office of about a dozen people, the organization had ballooned into a 60-person hybrid workforce, supported by dozens of contractors and interns who contributed for months at a time. 

Despite this growth, the technology foundation hadn’t kept pace. The organization relied on a patchwork of company-issued laptops and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) access, without a reliable way to ensure consistent privacy, security, or control across a workforce that changed month to month. Procuring, shipping, and reclaiming devices for short-term contributors introduced unnecessary cost and complexity.

The organization was initially considering virtual desktops (VDI) but decided against implementation after early testing showed performance issues, latency, and lag. With growth accelerating and legacy tools falling short, the team needed a more modern approach: one that could secure data across all employees, contractors, and interns efficiently.

The challenge: Enable a high-trust BYOD hybrid workforce while protecting sensitive data for a 100,000-member legal network.

The Challenge: Securing Hybrid Work Across Both Enterprise and BYOD Devices

As a national legal membership organization responsible for handling sensitive research and confidential member work, the firm needed a secure way to support an increasingly diverse workforce. With full-time staff, contractors, and a large seasonal intern population all accessing Google Workspace from a mix of company-issued and personal devices, the organization needed one solution that could apply consistent security controls. 

The ideal platform needed to uphold SOC 2 requirements, prevent sensitive data from being copied or stored on personal devices, and support both online and offline work – without complicating daily workflows. It also needed to connect interns, contractors, and full-time employees within one unified environment.

Critical challenges the organization needed to address:

• Secure remote access on both personal and company-managed devices
• Protect Google Workspace data
• Ensure data was fully removed at offboarding
• Support hybrid and remote work without friction
• Maintain separation between personal and work activity
• Enable offline work with secure synchronization
• Enforce consistent security policies across all device types

Without a unified solution that could meet these requirements, the organization risked remaining dependent on an inconsistent mix of personal and corporate devices – without confidence that sensitive member information was fully secured.

Venn’s Blue Border™: One Platform to Protect Data on Every Device Across the Workforce

While evaluating modern ways to support a growing hybrid workforce, the organization’s CTO identified Venn as a promising solution. Once introduced to Venn’s Blue Border™, it quickly became clear that the platform offered exactly what the team had been missing.

With Venn, work lives in a company-controlled Secure Enclave installed on the user’s PC or Mac, where all data is encrypted and access is managed. Work applications run locally within the Enclave – visually indicated by Venn’s Blue Border™ – protecting and isolating business activity while ensuring end-user privacy. 

Whether it was Google Suite, Excel, or Word, the team could work seamlessly on any device with consistent security controls in place. IT could easily prevent copy/paste and screenshots to ensure that confidential information remained protected. As the CTO remarked: “Why weren’t we using this already!” 

Onboarding was simple: IT provided the Venn agent, users installed it on their laptops and authenticated through an MFA-protected login. Before access was granted, Venn verified required security controls on the local device. Once inside Blue Border, contributors operated in the isolated workspace, keeping work and personal activity separate, and company data secure.

Key Benefits with Venn

• Rapid BYOD deployment
  • Install Venn in minutes on personal, contractor, and intern devices – no VDI, no latency, and no shipping required.
• No virtualization or local data storage
  • Blue Border secures Google Workspace and other applications directly, ensuring sensitive work is never stored on personal devices.
• Built-in identity and device verification
  • MFA and device checks protect access for full-time employees, contractors, and interns before they can use the platform.
• Reliable performance anywhere
  • Low-latency access allows hybrid and remote staff to work efficiently across the U.S., whether online or offline.
• Granular, workflow-specific security policies
  • Apply precise controls for downloads, storage, and data movement to protect member work without disrupting productivity.
• Clear separation of work and personal activity
  • Blue Border isolates all work activity, keeping company data secure while allowing personal use on the same device.
• Control over copy, paste, and screen sharing
  • Prevent sensitive data from being copied, pasted, or shared outside of Blue Border.

The Result: A Unified, Secure Workspace with Blue Border

After a focused evaluation with the CTO and CEO, the organization adopted Venn and experienced immediate impact. Questions around application compatibility and data security were fully resolved, enabling employees, contractors, and interns to work seamlessly and securely within a consistent, protected environment.

What began as a simple exploration quickly turned into validation. The leadership team noted that Venn “sounds amazing,” and found that Blue Border removed the operational burden of managing short-term contributors – freeing IT to support the core mission of serving their 100,000-member legal community. 

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