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Priscilla Combari

Priscilla Combari represents clients on a wide variety of complex commercial transactions, specializing in technology-driven matters that enable clients to innovate and become industry leaders. She has significant experience negotiating outsourcing and other technology-driven agreements, including agreements for software development and implementation, data and software licenses (including for cloud or SaaS deliveries), professional services for both service providers and customers, commercial partnerships and collaborations, reseller and white-label arrangements, and distribution deals. She represents clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, life sciences, public utility, consumer goods, airline, hospitality, automobile and banking.

Priscilla also spent time working in-house at a technology company, where she sharpened her business acumen and deepened her understanding of strategic decision-making. Understanding the concerns and motivations of service providers enables Priscilla to approach negotiations with a balanced mindset, prioritizing achieving solutions that are not only legally robust, but also aligned with operational realities and commercially advantageous for all parties involved.

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Inflection Point for IoT

In a relatively short amount of time, the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications — from smart cars to the myriad of interconnected sensors in the General Service Administration building reminiscent of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey — has rapidly proliferated, providing significant opportunities and benefits. However, the increased ubiquity of IoT comes with heightened risks to security, privacy and physical safety and without a standardized set of cybersecurity requirements, many IoT devices and systems are vulnerable to attack. Earlier this month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (through the Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICS WG)) released a draft report to help both federal agencies and private companies plan and develop cybersecurity standards in their use and production of IoT components, products, systems and services. The draft report stresses the importance of coordination across the private and public sectors in developing standards to bolster the security and resilience of IoT, provides a snapshot of current international cybersecurity standards, and offers recommendations for gap-filling.Continue Reading Latest NIST Draft Report a Call to Action for Federal Agencies and Private Companies