Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 22

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 22
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 financial statements with the SEC.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |     |                       |     |                 |     | 4Review and discuss the Company’s financial statements with management, the internal auditors and the independent registered public accounting firm, including critical audit matters, critical accounting policies and practices, material alternative financial treatments within GAAP, proposed adjustments, control recommendations, review of internal controls for nonfinancial sustainability-related data and disclosures, significant management judgments and accounting estimates, new accounting policies, changes in accounting principles, any disagreements with management and other material written communications between the internal auditors and/or the independent registered public accounting firm and management. |     |                    |     |                   |
| The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee is independent as defined by the NYSE corporate governance rules within its listing standards and rules of the SEC promulgated pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Board has also determined that each member of the Audit Committee is financially literate under NYSE corporate governance rules and that William G. Smith, Jr. qualifies as an audit committee financial expert as defined by the SEC. |     |                       |     |                 |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     |                    |     |                   |

### Business Security and Resiliency Committee
| Members                                                                                                                                                                                          |     | Janaki Akella |     | Shantella E. Cooper  |     |                                                                                                                 |     | Attendance100%    
 Meetings in 20245 |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                  |     | Dale E. Klein |     | Kristine L. Svinicki |     |                                                                                                                 |     |                   |
| The Business Security and Resiliency Committee’s duties and responsibilities include the following:                                                                                              |     |               |     |                      |     |                                                                                                                 |     |                   |
| 4Oversee management’s efforts to establish and continuously improve enterprise-wide security policies, programs, standards and controls, including those related to cyber and physical security. |     |               |     |                      |     | 4Oversee management’s efforts to monitor significant security events and operational and compliance activities. 
 4Oversee management’s use of artificial intelligence and associated benefits and risk management.               |     |                   |
| The Board has determined that each member of the Business Security and Resiliency Committee is independent.                                                                                      |     |               |     |                      |     |                                                                                                                 |     |                   |

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