<div dir="ltr">I'm small-time, so probably a bit naive about this...but the first thing that came to mind was...why? I'd expect that to perhaps be a requirement by a client (the library, in this case) rather than a vendor. But not necessarily the other way around.<div><br></div><div>But upon reflection, maybe they consider network security to be highly essential...something it very well <u>should</u> be. Perhaps the vendor regularly works with large (perhaps government) organizations and perhaps they also frequently do pen testing, where NDAs are probably standard practice. So they may consider an NDA as standard procedure to be a positive selling point.</div><div><br></div><div>I can see multiple angles to that. Be interesting to know what their reasoning is and how it evolved...</div><div><br></div><div>2 cents,</div><div>Chad<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>______________________________<br><b>Chad Neeper</b><br><font size="1">Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><br><b>Level 9 Networks</b><br><font size="1">740-548-8070 (voice)<br>866-214-6607 (fax)</font><br><br><font size="1"><i>Full IT/Computer consulting services -- Specialized in public libraries</i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 2:25 PM Larry Ritchie via OPLINTECH <<a href="mailto:oplintech@lists.oplin.org">oplintech@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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So I'm screening a vendor for my network refresh project and the vendor is willing to do an onsite network assessment but they insist we fill out a mutual NDA form and was just wondering if any of you have encountered anything like this before and how you handled
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