Viant Technology Inc. - (DSP)
10-K Filing Date: March 04, 2024
Item 1C. Cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity Risk Management and Strategy
We have developed and implemented a cybersecurity risk management program intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and information. Our cybersecurity risk management program includes a cybersecurity incident response plan.
We design and assess our program based on the CIS Critical Security Controls Version 8 ("CIS"). This does not imply that we meet any particular technical standards, specifications, or requirements, only that we use CIS as a guide to help us identify, assess, and manage cybersecurity risks relevant to our business.
Our cybersecurity risk management program has its own governance channel and processes for monitoring and reporting risks. The current enterprise risk management framework is tailored to address risks around governance, process, technology, financial reporting, and fraud which could impact our financial statements. An enterprise effort to expand and integrate risks across all channels is underway.
Our cybersecurity risk management program includes the following:
•risk assessments designed to help identify material cybersecurity risks to our critical systems, information, products, services, and our broader enterprise IT environment;
•a security team principally responsible for managing (1) our cybersecurity risk assessment processes, (2) our security controls, and (3) our response to cybersecurity incidents;
•the use of external service providers, where appropriate, to assess, test or otherwise assist with aspects of our security controls;
•cybersecurity awareness training of our employees, incident response personnel, and senior management;
•a cybersecurity incident response plan that includes procedures for responding to cybersecurity incidents; and
•a third-party risk management process for significant service providers, suppliers, and vendors.
We have not identified risks from known cybersecurity threats, including as a result of any prior cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our operations, business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition.
Cybersecurity Governance
Our Board of Directors (the "Board") considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function. While delegated to the Audit Committee, the Board directly oversees management’s implementation of our cybersecurity risk management program.
The Board receives regular reports from management on our cybersecurity risks. In addition, management updates the Board, as necessary, regarding any material cybersecurity incidents, as well as any incidents with lesser impact potential. Board members receive presentations on cybersecurity topics from our Chief Information Officer ("CIO").
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Our management team, including our CIO, is responsible for assessing and managing our material risks from cybersecurity threats. Our CIO has primary responsibility for our overall cybersecurity risk management program and supervises both our internal cybersecurity personnel and our retained external cybersecurity consultants. Our CIO's experience includes over twenty (20) years of design, implementation and management of cyber-security programs at various levels and organizations.
Our management team supervises efforts to prevent, detect, mitigate, and remediate cybersecurity risks and incidents through various means, which may include briefings from internal security personnel; threat intelligence and other information obtained from governmental, public or private sources, including external consultants engaged by us; and alerts and reports produced by security tools deployed in the IT environment.