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Contractor Onboarding Made Easy for a Hyper-Growth AI Platform
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January 14, 2026
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Contractor Onboarding Made Easy for a Hyper-Growth AI Platform
An AI platform specializing in connecting contractors to niche remote jobs needed a faster solution to onboard and enable users. With legacy operations that required shipping laptops to contractors worldwide, the organization couldn’t onboard users fast enough to match the pace of incoming work. Especially for users outside the U.S. – shipping a laptop could […]
How a Global Immigration Law Firm Uses Venn to Enable Compliant Remote Access – Across Personal Laptops
December 16, 2025
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How a Global Immigration Law Firm Uses Venn to Enable Compliant Remote Access – Across Personal Laptops
An immigration law practice with international contractors needed a secure way to manage legal workflows while keeping teams seamlessly connected. Handling sensitive immigration documents across the US, Europe, and South America required employees to communicate quickly and share sensitive information without friction. The firm knew VDI would introduce slow log-ins, lag, and latency that would […]
Gartner Recognizes Venn in BYO-PC Security Category
December 14, 2025
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Gartner Recognizes Venn in BYO-PC Security Category
The office has expanded far beyond four walls, and so has the device footprint. Today, many employees, contractors, and consultants rely on their own laptops to get work done. This shift to BYO-PC (Bring Your Own PC) has clear benefits for flexibility and cost, but also introduces a serious security gap. Personal PCs are harder […]
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 […]
Gartner Recognizes Venn in Endpoint Access Isolation Category on Latest Hype Cycle for Workspace Security Report
December 2, 2025
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Gartner Recognizes Venn in Endpoint Access Isolation Category on Latest Hype Cycle for Workspace Security Report
The workplace is no longer confined to the office – and endpoints are no longer just company-issued devices. Today, contractors, consultants, and remote employees often work on their own laptops – devices IT can’t directly manage or secure. How to protect these BYOD endpoints is now a top priority, especially in regulated industries like finance, […]
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 […]
The VPN Problem Organizations Can’t Ignore: 6.8x Higher Ransomware Risk
November 3, 2025
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The VPN Problem Organizations Can’t Ignore: 6.8x Higher Ransomware Risk
A new report from cyber insurer At-Bay reveals a clear trend: traditional VPNs are becoming one of the most common gateways for ransomware attacks. The 2025 InsurSec Report found that: Why Traditional VPNs Are Vulnerable VPNs were designed for a different era, one where employees worked primarily on corporate devices from office networks. Today’s workforce […]
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 […]