Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001815776-25-000019
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Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1C
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 destruction of our proprietary or confidential data, employee data, or personal data, which could result in additional costs, loss of revenue, significant liabilities, harm to our brand and material disruption of our operations, and potentially significant delays in our delivery to market,” and “Restrictive laws and regulations govern the collection, use, transfer, and other processing of personal information.”

Governance

One of the key functions 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 as a whole, as well as through the audit committee.

Our Chief Financial Officer is primarily responsible for the assessment and management of our material risks from cybersecurity threats, and the oversight of our cybersecurity policies and processes, including those described in “Risk 

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Management and Strategy” above. Our Chief Financial Officer and our IT consultant collectively have significant prior work experience in various roles involving managing information security and implementing effective information and cybersecurity programs. They are informed about and monitor the prevention, mitigation, detection and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. Our information technology general controls are firmly established based on recognized industry standards and cover areas such as risk management, data backup, and disaster recovery. We have implemented processes to monitor security threats and vulnerabilities and respond to all cybersecurity incidents that could have an impact on our business operations, including prompt escalation and communication of major security incidents to senior leadership and our board of directors.Our Chief Financial Officer provides annual briefings to the audit committee regarding the Company’s cybersecurity risks and activities, including any recent cybersecurity incidents and related responses, cybersecurity systems testing, activities of third parties, and the like. The audit committee provides regular updates to the board of directors on such reports.