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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 […]
Onboarding Contractors: VDI Was Drastically Delaying Productivity. That’s When Venn Stepped in.
December 9, 2025
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Onboarding Contractors: VDI Was Drastically Delaying Productivity. That’s When Venn Stepped in.
A leading smart-home HVAC manufacturer with thousands of contractors in the field needed a way to enable their users to be as productive as possible – as quickly as possible. They also needed a way to ensure their contractor workforce wasn’t exposing the business to unnecessary risk. A virtual desktop was selected many years ago, […]
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 […]
Worried about Company Data Ending Up in ChatGPT Atlas? Here’s How Venn Can Help
October 23, 2025
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Worried about Company Data Ending Up in ChatGPT Atlas? Here’s How Venn Can Help
Venn, a leading provider of secure BYOD enablement, today announced support for ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s newly launched AI-powered browser. As employees adopt Atlas and other AI browsers to streamline their work, Venn helps companies protect sensitive company data on any AI browser, on any unmanaged device. For employees, these AI browsers are a game-changer: a […]
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 […]
