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Exhibit
10.16
SECURE COMPUTING
CORPORATION
EMPLOYMENT, CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION,
AND ARBITRATION
AGREEMENT
As a condition of my
employment with SECURE COMPUTING CORPORATION, its subsidiaries,
affiliates, successors or assigns (together the
“Company”), and in consideration of my employment with
the Company and my receipt of the compensation now and hereafter
paid to me by Company, I agree to the following:
1. At-Will Employment . I
UNDERSTAND AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MY EMPLOYMENT WITH THE COMPANY IS
FOR AN UNSPECIFIED DURATION AND CONSTITUTES “AT-WILL”
EMPLOYMENT. I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE
CONTRARY IS UNAUTHORIZED AND NOT VALID UNLESS OBTAINED IN WRITING
AND SIGNED BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE COMPANY. I
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP MAY BE TERMINATED AT
ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT GOOD CAUSE OR FOR ANY OR NO CAUSE, AT THE
OPTION EITHER OF THE COMPANY OR MYSELF, WITH OR WITHOUT
NOTICE.
2. Confidential
Information .
(a) Company
Information . I agree at all times during the term of my
employment and thereafter, to hold in strictest confidence, and not
to use or disclose, except for the benefit of the Company, to any
person, firm or corporation without written authorization of the
Chief Executive Officer of the Company, any Confidential
Information of the Company. I understand that “Confidential
Information” means any Company proprietary information,
technical data, trade secrets or know-how, including, but not
limited to, research, product plans, products, services, customer
lists and customers (including, but not limited to, customers of
the Company on whom I called or with whom I became acquainted
during the term of my employment), markets, software, developments,
inventions, processes, formulas, technology, designs, drawings,
engineering data, hardware configuration information, marketing,
financial or other business information disclosed to me by the
Company either directly or indirectly in writing, orally or by
drawings or observation of parts or equipment. I further understand
that Confidential Information does not include any of the foregoing
items which has become publicly known and made generally available
through no wrongful act of mine or of others who were under
confidentiality obligations as to the item or items involved or
improvements or new versions thereof.
(b) Former Employer
Information . I agree that I will not, during my employment
with the Company, improperly use or disclose any proprietary
information or trade secrets of any former or concurrent employer
or other person or entity and that I will not bring onto the
premises of the Company any unpublished document or
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