[OPLINTECH] vendor requiring NDA?

[Chad Neeper]

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.

But upon reflection, maybe they consider network security to be highly
essential...something it very well *should* 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.

I can see multiple angles to that. Be interesting to know what their
reasoning is and how it evolved...

2 cents,
Chad
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 2:25 PM Larry Ritchie via OPLINTECH <
oplintech at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 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 it? Thanks Larry
>
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