ZIFF DAVIS, INC. - (ZD)
10-K Filing Date: February 26, 2024
Item 1C. Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Risk Management and Strategy
We recognize the critical importance of developing, implementing, and maintaining robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard our information systems and protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our and our customer’s data and information assets. As such, 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 International Organization for Standardization (“ISO”) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) information security risk management frameworks. This does not imply that we meet any particular technical standards, specifications, or requirements, only that we use the above frameworks 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 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 controls;
•cybersecurity awareness training of our employees, incident response personnel, and senior management, including through the use of third-party providers for regular mandatory trainings;
•a cybersecurity incident response plan that includes procedures for responding to cybersecurity incidents; and
•a third-party risk management process for service providers, suppliers, and vendors.
Although we have designed our cybersecurity program and governance procedures above to mitigate cybersecurity risks, we face cybersecurity risks, threats and attacks that could materially affect our operations, business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition. For further details on the exposures related to these risks, see the section titled “Risk Factors” within this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Cybersecurity Governance
Our Board of Directors considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to the Audit Committee the oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks. The Audit Committee oversees management’s implementation of our cybersecurity risk management program.
The Audit Committee receives quarterly reports from management on our cybersecurity risks. In addition, management updates the Audit Committee, as necessary, regarding any material cybersecurity incidents, as well as certain incidents with lesser impact potential.
The Audit Committee reports to the full Board of Directors regarding its activities, including those related to cybersecurity. The full Board of Directors also receives briefings from management on our cyber risk management program. Board members receive presentations on cybersecurity topics from our Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”), internal security staff, or external experts as part of the Board of Directors’ continuing education on topics that impact public companies.
Our management team, including our Chief Technology Officer and CISO, is responsible for assessing and managing our material risks from cybersecurity threats. The team has a primary responsibility for our overall cybersecurity risk management program and supervises both our internal cybersecurity personnel and our retained external cybersecurity consultants. Our current Chief Technology Officer has over 25 years of experience in the field of technology, including cybersecurity. His in-depth knowledge and experience are instrumental in developing and executing our cybersecurity strategies. Our CISO has over 25 years of experience in various roles in cybersecurity and information technology.
Our management team supervises efforts to prevent, detect, mitigate, and remediate cybersecurity risks and incidents through various means, which may include receiving briefings from internal security personnel; analyzing threat intelligence and other information obtained from governmental, public or private sources, including external consultants engaged by us; and reviewing alerts and reports produced by security tools deployed in the IT environment.