[OPLINTECH] vendor requiring NDA?

[Larry Ritchie]

So the reason we were given is that its SOP for them bc they do a lot of corporate clients and since they're accessing sensitive info that this gives protection to both parties. They are willing to sign a one sided NDA but we don't have any NDA templates to be able to generate one and the language in the mutual NDA is concerning in some places. Def a new one for me, I haven't had this come up w/ anyone else. Thanks Larry

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Larry Ritchie
IT Manager, Tuscarawas County Public Library System

Office: 330.364.4474 ext 235

Cell: 330-983-6941

lritchie at tusclibrary.org

www.tusclibrary.org

121 Fair Avenue NW, New Philadelphia, OH 44663

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Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] vendor requiring NDA?

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<mailto: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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Larry Ritchie
IT Manager, Tuscarawas County Public Library System

Office: 330.364.4474 ext 235

Cell: 330-983-6941

lritchie at tusclibrary.org<http://tusclibrary.org>

www.tusclibrary.org<http://www.tusclibrary.org>

121 Fair Avenue NW, New Philadelphia, OH 44663

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