Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc. 10-K Cybersecurity GRC - 2024-03-07

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Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc. reported their cybersecurity risk management and governance process in a yearly 10-K filed on 2024-03-07 07:08:29 EST.

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10-K filed on 2024-03-07

Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc. filed a 10-K at 2024-03-07 07:08:29 EST
Accession Number: 0001453687-24-000036

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Item 1C. Cybersecurity.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity One of the key responsibilities of our Board of Directors is informed oversight of our risk management process, including risks from cybersecurity threats. Our Board of Directors is responsible for monitoring and assessing strategic risk exposure, and our executive officers are responsible for the day-to-day management of the material risks we face. Our Board of Directors administers its cybersecurity risk oversight function directly and through the Audit Committee, which conducts regular risk assessments related to all matters affecting the enterprise, including cybersecurity, and receives periodic reports on the Company’s cybersecurity risks and activities. Our Chief Financial Officer and our Senior Director, Head of IT and Informatics are the Company employees primarily responsible for assessing and managing material risks from cybersecurity threats with assistance from third-party service providers. Our Chief Financial Officer has served as a biotechnology executive for 15 years, whose responsibilities have included direct oversight of his companies’ cybersecurity risks. Our Senior Director, Head of IT and Informatics has served as an information technology professional for over ten years and has held senior IT positions at multiple biotechnology companies, where his primary responsibilities included maintaining direct oversight over his companies’ cybersecurity risks. We have established policies and processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material risk from cybersecurity threats, and have integrated these processes into our overall risk management systems and processes. We routinely assess material risks from cybersecurity threats, including any potential unauthorized occurrence on or conducted through our information systems that may result in adverse effects on the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of our information systems or any information residing therein. We conduct periodic risk assessments to identify cybersecurity threats, as well as assessments in the event of a material change in our business practices that may affect information systems that are vulnerable to such cybersecurity threats. These risk assessments include identification of reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks, the likelihood and potential damage that could result from such risks, and the sufficiency of existing policies, procedures, systems, and safeguards in place to manage such risks. Following these risk assessments, we re-design, implement, and maintain reasonable safeguards to minimize identified risks; address any identified gaps in existing safeguards; and regularly monitor the effectiveness of our safeguards. Primary responsibility for assessing, monitoring and managing our cybersecurity risks is delegated to our Senior Director, Head of IT and Informatics, who reports on IT operations, risk mitigation and assessment efforts, and other general cybersecurity matters to our Chief Financial Officer, to manage the risk assessment and mitigation process. The cybersecurity risk management program includes tools and activities to prevent, detect, and analyze current and emerging cybersecurity threats, and plans and strategies to address threats and incidents. As part of our overall risk management system, we monitor and test our safeguards and train our employees on these safeguards, in collaboration with our internal IT function and management. We engage consultants or other third parties in connection with our risk assessment processes. These service providers assist us in designing and implementing our cybersecurity policies and procedures, and monitoring and testing our safeguards. We require each third-party service provider to certify that it has the ability to implement and maintain appropriate security measures, consistent with all applicable laws, to implement and maintain reasonable security measures in connection with their work with us, and to promptly report any suspected breach of its security measures that may affect our Company. Our Chief Financial Officer and Senior Director, Head of IT and Informatics provide periodic briefings to the Audit Committee regarding our Company’s cybersecurity risks and activities, including any recent cybersecurity incidents and related responses, cybersecurity systems testing, activities of third parties, and related matters. The Audit Committee provides regular updates to the full Board of Directors on such reports. We have not encountered cybersecurity challenges that have materially impaired our operations or financial standing. For additional information regarding risks from cybersecurity threats, please refer to Item 1A, “Risk Factors,” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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