Company: UIS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000746838-25-000008
Chunk: 48

Company: UNISYS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 48
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 our customers. In addition, we rely on our suppliers’ tools and services to adequately detect, report and respond to cybersecurity incidents, cybersecurity attacks and other security incidents and breaches, which could affect our ability to report or address these incidents effectively or in a timely manner. An increase in consumption of public cloud services also elevates the risk to our environment, as securing cloud workload regularly involves new skills, tools and processes. The introduction of AI and quantum computing is also raising the risk level as it opens new possibilities for threat actors to launch complex attacks combining social engineering and new and classic hacking techniques, including quantum computing enabled “steal now decrypt later” schemes. Similarly, the threat of malicious cybersecurity activity from nation states and other sophisticated actors continues to increase, particularly with geopolitical turmoil and global conflicts like those in the Ukraine and Middle East.

Any disruption, termination or substandard provision of services, including by us or third-party cloud providers, has affected, and in the future could materially and adversely affect, our business by disrupting normal IT operations, customer service, accounting and technology functions, affecting our ability to comply with our financing arrangements and otherwise impacting our ability to manage our business. Disruption, termination or substandard provision of services could be the result of localized conditions (such as power outages, telecommunications failures, fire or explosion), failure of our systems to function as designed, or as the result of events or circumstances of broader geographic impact (such as storms, earthquakes, floods, epidemics, strikes, acts of war, civil unrest or terrorist acts). We have incurred such disruptions, which have resulted and could result in further substantial repair or replacement costs and/or data loss or other impediments that affect our ability to run our business. To date these disruptions have not had a material impact on our operations; however, there is no assurance that such impacts will not be material in the future, and such disruptions have in the past and may in the future have the impacts discussed below.

Cybersecurity incidents, security incidents and breaches and other disruptions in our IT systems have exposed, and in the future could expose, us to liability, litigation and regulatory or other government action, which could result in the loss of existing or potential clients, damage to our brand and reputation, damage to our competitive position and financial loss. In addition, the cost and operational consequences of responding to cybersecurity incidents and security breaches and implementing remediation measures is and could continue to be significant. These financial consequences include the costs associated with obtaining and maintaining cybersecurity insurance.

While we work to continuously evaluate our security