Company: THRM
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-023344
Chunk: 104

Company: Gentherm Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 104
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ITEM 1C.	CYBERSECURITYOur corporate information technology, communication networks, enterprise applications, accounting and financial reporting platforms, and related systems are necessary for the operation of our business. We use these systems, among others, to manage our product development and manufacturing, to communicate internally and externally, to operate our accounting and record-keeping functions, and for many other key aspects of our business. Our business operations rely on the secure collection, storage, transmission, and other processing of proprietary, confidential, and sensitive data.Risk Management and StrategyWe recognize the importance of assessing, identifying, and managing material risks associated with cybersecurity threats, as such term is defined in Item 106(a) of Regulation S-K. These risks include, among other things: operational risks, intellectual property theft, fraud, extortion, harm to employees or customers, violation of data privacy or security laws, litigation, and legal, financial and reputational risk.We have implemented and maintain various information security processes designed to identify, assess and manage material risks from cybersecurity threats to our critical systems and our proprietary, strategic or competitive data. Depending on the environment, we implement and maintain various technical, physical, and organizational measures, processes, standards, and/or policies designed to manage and mitigate material risks from cybersecurity threats to our information systems and data, including risk 

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assessments, incident detection and response, vulnerability management, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, internal controls within our accounting and financial reporting functions, encryption of data, network security controls, access controls, physical security, asset management, systems monitoring, vendor risk management program and employee training. We conduct regular reviews and tests of our information security program and also leverage audits by our internal audit team, tabletop exercises, penetration and vulnerability testing, and other exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of our information security program and improve our security measures and planning. We have an incident response process that relies on a multidisciplinary team for assessing and managing cybersecurity incidents, including an escalation framework based on the materiality of incidents. The multidisciplinary team includes members of our IT security function, executive management of our legal, finance, human resources, corporate communications and internal audit/risk functions and third party service providers of technical, legal and insurance services, as well as coordination with law enforcement as appropriate. Our IT security function also addresses cybersecurity threats through regular vulnerability reviews, risk registry reviews and global team meetings.Our information security processes are integrated into our overall enterprise risk management (“ERM”) process and system. Our ERM process relies on designated