A New Device-Agnostic Approach to Securing Remote Work
Modern organizations require a fundamentally new approach to securing remote work – one designed for how work actually happens. One that protects the work, regardless of the device. One that includes AI as part of modern workflows, not a threat to lock out.
Modern workforces demand flexibility. IT still owns security and compliance
Work is no longer tied to one location, device, or type of worker.
In today’s AI era, businesses depend on workforce agility — the ability to build, scale, and reshape teams fast. Three forces are driving that change:
Geographic expansion. Companies are building teams across wider footprints to access talent, manage costs, and stay competitive.
AI acceleration. AI is forcing organizations to rethink nearly every role and process. Adoption pressure is top-down — and moving faster than governance can keep up.
Workforce composition. Organizations are no longer built only on full-time employees. Contractors, offshore teams, contingent workers, BPOs, and outsourced partners are now core to how work happens.
Existing Approaches for Securing Remote Work Are Breaking
Corporate laptop programs
are being scaled back or abandoned.
Buying, shipping, tracking, and supporting company hardware is expensive, slow, and operationally fragile – especially across distributed and global teams.
VDI environments
are shrinking or being avoided altogether.
They impose high infrastructure and licensing costs, introduce latency and performance issues, and create ongoing support complexity.
Taking control of personal devices
with corporate security software is a non-starter.
It creates user friction, raises privacy concerns, and fails in contractor-heavy and BYOD environments.
Enterprise browsers
are limited to browser-based applications and require users to change how they work – with no visibility into locally installed apps or the desktop AI tools employees are already using.
Network-centric solutions
focus on access, but lose visibility and control once company data reaches the endpoint.
Point-solution sprawl
Each tool covers one slice — a browser here, a network layer there, a device agent somewhere else — leaving gaps between them and a management burden that grows with every tool you add. More coverage, more complexity, and still no complete answer.
A New Device-Agnostic Approach to Securing Remote Work
Blue Border™ is the secure workspace for remote employees and contractors on any device – without VDI or fully managing the endpoint. Blue Border gives IT a simpler, device-agnostic way to secure remote work, govern AI usage, enable contractor and BYOD workforces, and replace VDI.
Installing Blue Border on a Mac or PC creates a company-controlled secure enclave directly on that device. All business activity inside the enclave – company data, applications, networking, and AI workflows – is protected and isolated from any other use on the same computer. Work applications run locally, with no performance tradeoffs, visually marked by a blue line wrapped around those application windows.
Outside Blue Border, privacy is preserved and IT has no visibility or control.
Venn Named a Sample Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle™ for Workspace Security, in the category of Unmanaged Device Access
Unmanaged device access facilitates access to a secure workspace where applications and data are consumed, but which are isolated from the endpoint,
“Lacking direct control of these devices, isolating the data being accessed from the local device becomes critical. This is a separate class of tech from traditional VDI or DaaS”
Gartner, Inc. “Hype Cycle for Workspace Security, 2026” by Franz Hinner, Eric Grenier, Stuart Downes, and Chris Silva.
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Use Case Highlights
BYOD Workforces
Ensure remote workers are secure, engaged, and productive. Venn securely enables BYOD workforces on any personal computer, removing the burden of buying, securing, managing and shipping laptops.
Virtual Desktop Alternative
Say goodbye to DaaS and clunky VDI infrastructure. Venn offers an intuitive, cost-effective solution for BYOD that also takes care of your security concerns. Applications run locally, not from a remote server, providing an ideal user experience.
Corporate Device Freedom
Get out of the computer hardware business. Eliminate the time-consuming task of buying, shipping, managing and securing laptops for every remote employee and contractor. IT teams can now focus on more strategic initiatives.
Third-Party Contractors and Offshore Workers
Securely manage third-party contractors, freelancers and offshore workers. Whether they use a PC or Mac, a personal or unmanaged device, Venn ensures company data is protected without the cost and complexity of VDI or sacrificing user productivity.
Company Data Protection
Protect company data without owning and controlling every user’s PC or Mac. Blue Border™ prevents accidental or malicious data exfiltration, compromise or loss on any unmanaged computer.
MDM for Laptops
Experience a new level of control with Blue Border™, which is similar to an MDM solution but for laptops. Work lives in a company-controlled Secure Enclave installed on the user’s computer, where business activity is isolated and protected from any personal use on the same computer. Compatible with PC, Mac, iOS, Android.
AI Governance and Security
Govern shadow AI and control which tools can access company data — across the browser and desktop — without managing the device or blocking productivity
Mergers and Acquisitions
Venn accelerates M&A integration by providing simple and streamlined onboarding for acquired employees. By reducing bottlenecks that can hinder rapid scale (infrastructure and hardware) and enforcing unified security policies through Blue Border™, Venn helps ensure business continuity, compliance, and faster time-to-value during the transition.
Secure Any User, Any Location, Any Device, Any AI Workflow
Get contractors, offshore teams, and remote employees working securely in minutes — on any PC or Mac, without the lag and latency of VDI or fully managing the endpoint.
See how Blue Border™ secures company data, apps, and AI workflows while cutting remote-work costs by up to 40%.
