Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001007587-25-000003
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Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 the WISP policy defines how sensitive and private data is protected. Under our procedures, we perform an annual risk assessment to identify and prioritize key cybersecurity risks, and we update this assessment when we receive information about material new cybersecurity risks. Once we identify material cybersecurity risks, we seek to identify and implement prevention measures. Current prevention measures include, among other things, to the extent we determine to be appropriate for our information systems in light of our financial, personnel and other resources, restricted physical access, restricted systems access, multi-factor authentication, software solutions such as intrusion detection systems, anti-virus, anti-malware, email filtering and quarantining programs, routine system maintenance and updates, backup and recovery systems, routine employee cybersecurity training and testing, and quarterly internal audits. The measures we take may be inadequate to protect us from cybersecurity risks. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors – Risks related to our dependence on third parties and third-party technology – Cybersecurity breaches could disrupt our operations, expose us to liability, damage our reputation, and require us to incur significant costs or otherwise adversely affect our financial results.”We obtain cybersecurity threat intelligence information from law enforcement reports and our cybersecurity operations providers and communicate this information to relevant stakeholders within the organization. We employ third-party cybersecurity operations providers to monitor cybersecurity events and provide rapid responses to any critical events. In addition, we employ contractual provisions to require our third-party information service providers to implement and maintain appropriate security measures over the information we entrust to them. Because of the relatively small size of our information technology workforce, we have limited internal cybersecurity expertise and monitoring capabilities; accordingly, we seek to augment our internal capabilities by engaging larger, well-known third-party service providers with significantly greater cybersecurity capabilities than we possess. Because we rely on their greater expertise, our ability to identify and remediate weaknesses or vulnerabilities in the services they provide is limited. We have not engaged third parties to assess our cybersecurity defenses or to audit our cybersecurity program, nor have we conducted direct or indirect technical evaluations of the information systems that our third-party service providers use.

Our Information Security Officer (“ISO”) is responsible for implementing, supervising and maintaining the WISP, including the implementation of prevention measures. The ISO reports directly to the VP Network Systems/Services Engineering, who is also our Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”). The CISO establishes the company-wide system security plan and defines the parameters of users’ access privileges. The CISO has over 30 years in the network, security systems engineering fields and has been with KVH for