Venn launches Blue Border for AI Governance & Security. September 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT i This article is third-party content and does not represent the views of this site. Tamar Securities, LLC make no guarantees regarding its accuracy or completeness. Blue Border is the first secure workspace to give IT control over AI usage, keep AI work in company accounts, and enable native AI productivity on any laptop, managed, BYOD or third-party-owned. Venn, the secure remote work company, today announced Blue Border(TM) for AI Governance & Security. The release extends Blue Border to let organizations with remote and distributed workforces govern and securely use AI on any laptop, whether or not the company owns or manages it. Installing Blue Border on a Mac or PC creates a company-controlled secure enclave on that laptop, isolating business activity from everything else on the same machine. Until now, Blue Border's AI controls centered on data loss prevention for browser-based AI. Available today, the release extends that control to AI running natively on the desktop. Anthropic's Claude desktop apps, Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude Code, now run natively inside Blue Border - to maintain governance and ensure data policies are strictly enforced. Tenant restrictions allow sign-ins to approved AI services only from company-provided accounts. IP-based access controls narrow those sign-ins further, to your dedicated Blue Border IP addresses - so data can't be exfiltrated from an unmanaged device. Unapproved AI tools stay blocked from company data entirely. Together, they give organizations a secure way to adopt AI across all their workflows, in the browser and on the desktop, on every device their people use, and without a virtual desktop. They extend Blue Border's founding promise, use any app on any device without compromising security, into the AI era. Saying No to AI Comes at a Cost Organizations in regulated industries face a compounding dilemma: they cannot afford to fall behind on AI productivity, but they cannot tolerate the data exposure that comes with open adoption. Research compiled by the Cloud Security Alliance found that 71 percent of all connections to generative AI tools are made through personal, non-corporate accounts[1]. Blocking AI outright slows a company's own people down, and results in inevitable workarounds and shadow AI practices. When organizations provision sanctioned AI tools instead, unauthorized use drops by 89 percent[2]. "AI is the most important shift our customers have navigated since the cloud," said David Matalon, CEO and Founder of Venn. "Blue Border was built for exactly this moment: a world where sensitive work happens on any device, and where what needs to be protected is the data itself, not the machine. Blue Border for AI Governance & Security extends that protection to every AI tool, native app or browser, and gives IT and security teams control back." Run Claude Natively: 100% App Performance On Any Laptop Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude Code, Anthropic's AI desktop applications, now run natively inside Blue Border. As more AI workloads move onto the device itself as native apps and OS-embedded assistants, controlling the browser or the cloud alone is no longer enough. Because Blue Border governs AI in the browser and desktop, it covers those workflows wherever they run. For regulated organizations enabling BYOD and contractor programs, this changes the ceiling on AI productivity. Remote employees and contractors can use the most capable AI tools in their full native form, on a personal machine, under the same controls that apply to browser-based AI. There is no hardware to ship and no virtual desktop in between. Support for additional applications, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, is on the roadmap for later this year. Stop Shadow AI: Prevent Company Data From Reaching Unapproved AI Tools Employees and contractors are already using AI for work, often through their own personal ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini account, and on laptops their company doesn't manage. Blue Border prevents any unapproved AI application from running inside the secure enclave and touching company data. Enforcement happens at the application layer, covering AI wherever it runs: a browser tab, a native desktop app, or an assistant embedded in the operating system. Rather than maintaining a blocklist of named products, IT blocks AI as a category and allows only the specific tools it has approved. On any laptop, whether managed, BYOD or third-party owned, DLP controls are enforced across copy/paste, upload, download, screenshot, print, and AI, closing off the most common exposure path. Seventy-seven percent of employees paste data into AI prompts, and 82 percent of those pastes happen through unmanaged personal accounts, outside the reach of conventional DLP[3]. Personal AI stays personal: employees keep their own accounts for their own time, and work-related activities are policy-protected. Company AI Under Company Control: The Right Account, From Trusted Locations Approving an AI tool is not the same as controlling how it's used. An employee can open the sanctioned tool, sign in with a personal account, and paste in company data. Or, they can sign into the company's AI account from a personal browser at home, where none of the company's controls apply. Blue Border closes both paths. Tenant restrictions ensure company data is only accessible when users are signed in to company-provided accounts. A personal sign-in inside Blue Border is restricted. Conditional access handles the second because all Blue Border traffic comes from IP addresses dedicated to that customer. Organizations can point their existing access policies at those addresses, exactly as they already do for Microsoft 365 and Salesforce. Any sign-in to a company-provided AI service originating from an untrusted location is rejected. The result is that an AI policy becomes enforceable. Data stays in the corporate tenant, AI access ends with off-boarding rather than living on in a personal login, and company AI tools only work inside Blue Border. Venn is hosting a virtual demonstration of Blue Border for AI Governance & Security on Wednesday, September 23 at 1:00 p.m. ET. To register, visit venn.com. About Venn Venn is the leader in workspace security for remote and contractor workforces. Built on Venn's patented technology, Blue Border(TM) protects company data, applications, and AI workflows on any computer, without VDI and without fully managing the endpoint. More than 700 security and compliance-driven organizations trust Venn for their distributed workforces, including Fidelity, Guardian, Whatnot, and the IMF. To learn more, visit venn.com. [1] LayerX Security, Enterprise GenAI Security Report 2025, as cited in Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative, "Shadow AI Apps: The Enterprise Attack Surface That Outpaces Monitoring," Version 1.0, May 30, 2026. [2] Unseen Security, The State of Shadow AI 2026, as cited in Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative, "Shadow AI Apps: The Enterprise Attack Surface That Outpaces Monitoring," Version 1.0, May 30, 2026. [3] LayerX Security, 2025 Browser Security Report, as cited in Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative, "Shadow AI Apps: The Enterprise Attack Surface That Outpaces Monitoring," Version 1.0, May 30, 2026. Available today, Blue Border(TM) for AI Governance and Security extends control to AI running natively on the desktop - on any laptop, managed, BYOD or third-party-owned. 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Venn ranks No. 98 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 among America's fastest-growing private companies. This latest recognition reflects surging demand for securing remote work - as distributed teams, AI, and blended human-and-agent workforces redefine how and where work gets done, and who does it. NEW YORK, August 12, 2026 - Venn, the leader in workspace security for remote and contractor workforces, today announced it has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, the annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Venn debuts on the list at No. 98 overall - placing it in the top 2% of all honorees - and ranks No. 9 in Software and No. 12 for companies based in the New York - Jersey City metro area. The recognition caps a period of rapid growth since the launch of Blue Border(TM) in 2022. Venn most recently reported 114% new business ARR growth and 30% growth in new-logo acquisitions going into 2026. But for Founder and CEO David Matalon, the milestone is less about how fast Venn has grown than about why: "I started Venn with a simple belief: the future of work would be device-agnostic. What I didn't anticipate was how fast AI would make that inevitable - and how much bigger the challenge would become." The workforce is being redefined. For many of Venn's customers with remote workforces, it's no longer just about where employees work or what laptop they use. StoneX, a Fortune 100 financial services firm operating under some of the strictest data-protection and regulatory requirements in the industry, is a case in point. Rather than ship and manage corporate laptops or route its global teams through virtual desktops, StoneX uses Venn to secure company data directly on the devices its employees and contractors already use - keeping sensitive information compliant and under IT's control, without the cost, latency, and management overhead those legacy approaches bring. A defining problem for modern IT. Today's organizations demand near-unlimited flexibility - onboard anyone, anywhere, support any device, and enable any application or AI tool. Three forces are compounding that tension. Geographic expansion, as companies build teams across ever-wider footprints. AI acceleration, as organizations rethink who does the work, where it happens, and whether it's human or machine. And a changing workforce composition, in which contractors, offshore teams, contingent workers, and BPO partners are now core to how work happens. The result is a significant challenge for IT organizations: they can't limit the workforce, can't control every endpoint, and can't dictate where or how work happens - yet they own the risk. A new, device-agnostic approach. Venn attributes its rapid growth to a simple premise: modern organizations require a fundamentally new, device-agnostic approach to securing remote work - one designed for how work actually happens, that protects the work regardless of the device, and that treats AI as part of the modern workflow rather than a threat to lock out. Rather than shipping and managing corporate laptops or routing users through virtual desktops, Venn protects the work itself - company data and applications - right on the computer a person already uses. Whether that's a company-issued laptop, a contractor's or remote employee's personal device, or hardware managed by a third party. All without managing the entire device and potentially invading a user's personal privacy. It's an approach purpose-built for a workforce that no longer fits inside a single location, device type, or employment model. Securing AI is the next chapter. That framing has placed Venn at the center of one of the most pressing questions facing IT and security leaders: how to safely enable AI across a distributed, blended workforce. "Most of Venn's customers are racing to put AI to work - and nearly every one of them hits the same wall, according to Matalon. "How do you let people use these tools without exposing company data? That's exactly the tension we exist to resolve, and it's where we're investing. Securely enabling AI for the modern workforce is our focus - and being recognized on the Inc. 5000 tells us the market is moving in the same direction." About the Inc. 5000. For more than 40 years, the Inc. 5000 has served as a leading benchmark of entrepreneurial success in the United States, spotlighting companies such as Pandora, Zappos, and 7-Eleven before they became household names. Companies on the 2026 list are ranked by percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. Complete results, including company profiles, are available at inc.com/inc5000. Scott Lavery. SVP Marketing Scott Lavery is the SVP of Marketing at Venn where he is responsible for developing and amplifying Venn's brand voice and accelerating growth. Scott is an experienced marketing leader in the technology/SaaS space with over 15 years of experience in brand development, demand generation, and product marketing.