Below is a contributed op-ed piece from SmartFlow Compliance Solutions CEO Ted Miracco, and company AE Akshay Dhule.
I last spoke with Miracco in November 2015 when the company launched, offering tools and strategies to software companies who have lost product to theft and piracy. At the time, Synopsys was dealing with a publicly-acknowledged system breach, so that conversation with SmartFlow was particularly pertinent.
This current piece, however, is about export compliance, a topic also of intense interest to the EDA industry.
Cadence’s Larry Disenhof is the industry’s subject expert in this area. Having heard him speak numerous times, although the piece below ends with a plug for SmartFlow, Disenhoff would undoubtedly agree with an articulate reminder that export compliance is neither optional nor for the faint of heart.
The message is clear: If you’re running a software company, ignore these issues at your own peril.
