Company: ALAR
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-025287
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Company: Alarum Technologies Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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no control. For example, a licensor may have difficulties keeping up with technological changes or may stop supporting the software or
other intellectual property that it licenses to us. There can be no assurance that the licenses we use will be available on acceptable
terms, if at all. In addition, a third party may assert that we or our customers are in breach of the terms of a license, which could,
among other things, give such third party the right to terminate a license or seek damages from us, or both. Our inability to obtain
or maintain certain licenses or other rights or to obtain or maintain such licenses or rights on favorable terms, or the need to engage
in litigation regarding these matters, could result in delays in releases of new products, and could otherwise disrupt our business,
until equivalent technology can be identified, licensed, or developed.

Our
use of open-source software could negatively affect our ability to sell our software and subject us to possible litigation.

We
use open-source software and expect to continue to use open-source software in the future. Some open-source software licenses require
users who distribute or make available as a service open-source software as part of their own software product to publicly disclose all
or part of the source code of the users’ software product or to make available any derivative works of the open-source code on
unfavorable terms or at no cost. We may face ownership claims of third parties over, or seeking to enforce the license terms applicable
to, such open-source software, including by demanding the release of the open-source software, derivative works or our proprietary source
code that was developed using such software. These claims could also result in litigation, require us to purchase a costly license or
require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our software, any of which would have a negative effect
on our business and results of operations. In addition, if the license terms for the open-source code change, we may be forced to re-engineer our
software or incur additional costs.

Under
applicable employment laws, we may not be able to enforce covenants not to compete and therefore may be unable to prevent our competitors
from benefiting from the expertise of some of our former employees.

We
generally enter into non-disclosure and non-competition agreements with our employees. These agreements prohibit our employees from competing
directly with us or working for our competitors or customers for a limited period after they cease working for us. We may be unable to
enforce these agreements under the