Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-015269
Chunk: 210

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1C
Chunk 210
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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments. 

None.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity.

Risk Management and StrategyWe have established policies and processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material risk from cybersecurity threats, and have integrated these processes into our overall risk management systems and processes.  We routinely assess material risks from cybersecurity threats, including any potential unauthorized occurrence on or conducted through our information systems that may result in adverse effects on the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of our information systems or any information residing therein. We adhere to industry-leading frameworks to safeguard our systems and data. The primary framework we follow is the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF). The HITRUST CSF provides a comprehensive, scalable, and technology-neutral approach to regulatory compliance and risk management. It encompasses information security risk management controls, including risk assessment, mitigation, and evaluation. Our processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material cybersecurity risks align with HITRUST CSF guidelines. We conduct monthly risk assessments to identify cybersecurity threats, as well as assessments in the event of a material change in our business practices that may affect information systems that are vulnerable to such cybersecurity threats.  These risk assessments include identification of reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks, the likelihood and potential damage that could result from such risks, and the sufficiency of existing policies, procedures, systems, and safeguards in place to manage such risks. Following these risk assessments, we evaluate whether and how to re-design, implement, and maintain reasonable safeguards to minimize identified risks; reasonably address any identified gaps in existing safeguards; and regularly monitor the effectiveness of our safeguards.  We devote significant resources and designate high-level personnel, including our Chief Financial Officer, who reports to our Chief Executive Officer, to manage the risk assessment and mitigation processes.  As part of our overall risk management system, we monitor and test our safeguards and train our employees on these safeguards, in collaboration with our human resources and information technology departments.  Personnel at all levels and departments are made aware of our cybersecurity policies through trainings.  We engage assessors, consultants, and auditors in connection with our risk assessment processes. These service providers assist us in designing and implementing our cybersecurity policies and procedures, as well as to monitor and test our safeguards. We require each third-party service provider to certify that it has the ability to implement and maintain appropriate security measures, consistent with all applicable laws, to implement and maintain reasonable security measures in connection with their work with us, and to promptly report any suspected breach of its security measures that may affect our