Company: RNAC
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001453687-25-000060
Chunk: 146

Company: Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1C
Chunk 146
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Item 1C.  Cybersecurity

One of the key responsibilities of our Board of Directors is informed oversight of our risk management process, including risks from cybersecurity threats. Our Board of Directors is responsible for monitoring and assessing strategic risk exposure, and our executive officers are responsible for the day-to-day management of the material risks we face. Our Board of Directors administers its cybersecurity risk oversight function directly and through the Audit Committee, which conducts regular risk assessments related to all matters affecting the enterprise, including cybersecurity, and receives periodic reports on the Company’s cybersecurity risks and activities. Our Chief Financial Officer and our Senior Director, Head of IT are the Company employees responsible for developing and implementing a cybersecurity risk management program intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and information. We partner with external cybersecurity vendors to enact a layered defense approach with controls deployed that seek to meet the requirements of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Our Chief Financial Officer has served as a biotechnology executive for 20 years, whose responsibilities have included direct oversight of his companies’ cybersecurity risks. Our Senior Director, Head of IT has served as an Information Technology professional for over ten years and has held senior IT positions across several companies including a large pharmaceutical company.We 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. Our Senior Director, Head of IT oversees the cybersecurity program through risk management, employee security training, and oversight and escalation of threat monitoring and incident response. 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. In the event of a major security incident, we have established an escalation path for stakeholder notification and remediation efforts, and major incidents are immediately escalated to the Head of IT, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operations Officer. In 2024, we proactively conducted a thorough and robust cybersecurity assessment, performed by an external cybersecurity partner, to evaluate our risks and identify key areas to improve our cybersecurity posture. We have implemented processes when evaluating third-party service providers, for example by reviewing available audit reports including the System and 

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Organization Controls (SOC 2) reports and requesting disclosure of any previous cybersecurity events. We also perform quality audits of certain regulated vendors, which includes an assessment of the vendor’s information technology system and associated controls.Additionally, we conduct