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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 Remote Contractors with BYOD Laptops
May 16, 2024
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Securing Remote Contractors with BYOD Laptops
The make-up of the modern workforce is evolving, driven by the rise in remote work and shifting employee preferences. In fact, the number of independent workers in the US has almost doubled since 2020, according to a study by McKinsey. But with companies hiring more remote contractors, they are facing many new challenges, too. In […]
Empowering Remote Teams: A Financial Industry Leader’s BYOD Journey
May 15, 2024
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Empowering Remote Teams: A Financial Industry Leader’s BYOD Journey
With the increasing prevalence of remote and hybrid work environments, companies need tech solutions that enable their employees to work securely from afar. But the current options are lacking. We recently spoke with a Fortune 500 financial services company that specializes in banking and insurance programs and solutions. The majority of the organization’s sales agents […]
Securing Remote Work: Essential IT Checklist for Device Setup and Shipping
May 15, 2024
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Securing Remote Work: Essential IT Checklist for Device Setup and Shipping
The adoption of remote work has been steadily ramping up as employees discover the benefits of working from home (WFH), with some of them now seeing this as a must-have criterion when choosing where to work. Just a few of the perks include not having to commute, a quiet space more attuned to tasks that […]
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 […]
Comparing Venn vs. Virtual Desktops – Securing Unmanaged Devices for Remote Work
April 25, 2024
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Comparing Venn vs. Virtual Desktops – Securing Unmanaged Devices for Remote Work
Companies with remote employees have been mainly securing BYOD and unmanaged devices with VDI. But the cost of virtual desktops, the IT overhead required and the lacking user experience – call for a better alternative. In this blog post, we compare virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to Venn, a BYOD solution that runs on the endpoint […]
