Company: FRHC
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: ARS
Source: 0000924805-25-000027
Chunk: 97

Company: Freedom Holding Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: ARS
Chunk 97
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 management processes to address changing threats and conditions. We leverage people, processes, and technology as part of our efforts to manage and maintain cybersecurity. We employ a variety of preventative and detective tools designed to monitor, block, and provide alerts regarding suspicious activity, as well as to report on suspected threats. We have established processes and systems designed to mitigate technology risk, including our corporate IT control system, to work towards a consistent minimal level of cybersecurity across all our subsidiaries. We engage in periodic or regular monitoring and assessments of our technology key infrastructure and processes using internal staff and third-party specialists utilizing methods such as penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, code, configuration reviews. risk and security assessments. We assess and manage risks, including IT and cybersecurity risks, associated with external service providers and our supply chain, utilizing methods such as security assessments, SLAs, information security and data protection contractual clauses. Our audit procedures include testing of IT and cybersecurity controls to ensure reliability. The type, maturity, and formalization of controls in our subsidiaries is informed by the level of anticipated threats and their impacts associated with each organization. We maintain an IT and cybersecurity incident management process that provides a framework for responding to actual or potential cybersecurity incidents, engagement of third parties, including external incident response professionals, and timely reporting of incidents with a material or reasonably likely material impact to our Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer, who inform other senior management members and our board of directors as appropriate. The cybersecurity incident management process facilitates coordination across multiple areas of our organization. Table of Contents 58

Governance Our cybersecurity risk governance model consists of three lines of defense. Our Chief Technology Officer, supported by the experts in our Technology Leadership Centre and IT and cybersecurity teams at our subsidiaries represent the first line. Our Chief Risk Officer, supported by corporate and subsidiary risk teams, and Risk Committee of the board of directors represent the second line. The third line consists of our Controlling Department, subsidiary internal audit functions and Audit Committee of the board of directors. Our Chief Technology Officer has over 15 years of information technology experience, including over a decade in leadership positions. He is supported by IT, information security and data protection professionals from our Technology Leadership Centre with extensive experience, including from regulatory agencies. At the subsidiary level our management team has varying degrees of technology, operational and cybersecurity experience, including experience in mitigating and responding to cybersecurity incidents and managing associated risks. Our Chief Technology Officer leads cybersecurity risk management improvement initiatives as part of our technology strategy, coordinated and monitored by experts from our Technology Leadership Centre. In contrast, the program