Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000929008-25-000005
Chunk: 33

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 33
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 remediate errors made by such providers, or could be subject to litigation, claims or regulatory investigations and actions. In addition, our third-party service providers might unilaterally discontinue or limit our access to services, increase pricing, alter service terms, or seek to terminate their contractual relationship with us, negatively affecting our operations. The failure to maintain our relationships or renew our contracts with cloud service providers on commercially favorable terms could pose serious challenges to our business. Although we could seek alternative providers, we may incur significant costs in connection with the transition or experience operational disruptions. In light of these factors, the cumulative impact of such issues, whether service disruptions, regulatory challenges, litigation or remediation costs, reputational harm, or cost escalations, could pose substantial risks to our operational efficiency and our ability to meet our strategic objectives, thereby potentially leading to material adverse effects on our overall business performance and financial results.

We may experience a failure in or breach of our information security systems, or those of our third-party product suppliers or service providers, as a result of cyber-attacks or information security breaches.

Because we rely heavily on information technology both in serving our customers and in our enterprise infrastructure in order to achieve our objectives, we may be vulnerable to damage or intrusion from a variety of cyber-attacks, including computer viruses, ransomware, worms or other malicious software programs that seek to gain access to our systems and networks, or those of our third-party service providers. Additionally, third parties may fraudulently attempt to induce employees or customers into disclosing sensitive information such as user names, passwords and other information in order to gain access to our customers’ data or our data, including our intellectual property and other confidential business information, or our information technology systems. Information technology security threats to our systems, networks and data have dramatically increased in recent years due to the proliferation of new technologies and the increased sophistication and activities of perpetrators. We have seen, and will continue to see, industry-wide vulnerabilities, which could cause widespread disruptions to our or other parties’ systems. In addition, the risk of retaliatory cyber-attacks has increased as a result of geopolitical conflicts, including the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts. These threats and vulnerabilities pose a risk to 

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the security of our systems and networks and the confidentiality, availability and integrity of our proprietary and confidential information.

Although we actively manage information technology security risks within our control and continually seek to enhance our controls and processes designed to protect our systems, computers, networks and data, there can be no assurance that such actions will