Warby Parker Inc. - (WRBY)
10-K Filing Date: February 28, 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 National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework 1.1 (NIST CSF). This does not imply that we meet any particular technical standards, specifications, or requirements, only that we use the NIST CSF as a guide to help us identify, assess, and manage cybersecurity risks relevant to our business.
Our cybersecurity risk management program is integrated into our overall enterprise risk management program, and shares common methodologies, reporting channels and governance processes that apply across the enterprise risk management program to other legal, compliance, strategic, operational, and financial risk areas.
Our cybersecurity risk management program includes:
•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 protocols and controls, and (3) our response to cybersecurity incidents;
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•The use of external service providers, where appropriate, to assess, test or otherwise assist with aspects of our security protocols and controls;
•Cybersecurity awareness training of our employees, incident response personnel, and senior management;
•A cybersecurity incident response plan that includes procedures for assessing and responding to cybersecurity incidents; and
•A third-party risk management process for service providers, suppliers, and vendors who have access to our critical systems and information.
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. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry—We rely heavily on our information technology systems, as well as those of our third-party vendors, business partners, and service providers, for our business to effectively operate and to safeguard confidential information; any significant failure, inadequacy, interruption, or cybersecurity incident could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operations.”
Cybersecurity Governance
Our Board considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to our Audit Committee oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks. Our Audit Committee oversees management’s implementation of our cybersecurity risk management program.
Our Audit Committee receives reports from management on our cybersecurity risks on at least a quarterly basis, and more frequently as needed. In addition, management updates the Audit Committee, as necessary, regarding any material cybersecurity incidents, as well as any incidents with lesser impact potential.
Our Audit Committee reports to the full Board regarding its activities, including those related to cybersecurity. The full Board also receives an annual briefing from management on our cyber risk management program. Board members receive presentations on cybersecurity topics from the Chief Technology Officer and the Senior Director of Information Security.
Our management team, including our Chief Technology Officer (“CTO”) and Senior Director of Information Security, are responsible for assessing and managing our material risks from cybersecurity threats, and our Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel are responsible for associated materiality assessments. Our CTO and cybersecurity team have primary responsibility for our overall cybersecurity risk management program and supervise both our internal cybersecurity personnel and our retained external cybersecurity consultants. Their experience includes decades spent managing the security programs of publicly traded corporations, formal cybersecurity education programs from accredited academic institutions, and numerous security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CySA+ and AWS Architect & Security Specializations.
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. The Company annually purchases a cybersecurity risk insurance policy that would help defray the costs associated with a covered cybersecurity incident if it occurred.