Disclosure · Form 10-K · fiscal 2025
Reddit 10-K cybersecurity disclosure (Item 1C), fiscal 2025
Filed February 6, 2026· period ended December 31, 2025· RDDT· CIK 1713445· Updated · filing on sec.gov ↗· company page
Reddit's Form 10-K for fiscal 2025, filed February 6, 2026, names the Chief Information Security Officer as its top security role, with oversight by the Audit Committee. It names Fredrick Lee as of that date.
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What Reddit's Item 1C says
Reddit's Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 places oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks with the Audit Committee, to which the Board of Directors has delegated it. Mr. Lee currently oversees Reddit's Security, Privacy, Assurance, Corporate Engineering team, which is responsible for assessing and managing material risks from cybersecurity threats.
Board and management oversight
The committee oversees management's implementation of the cybersecurity risk management program. The committee receives regular reports from management on cybersecurity risks. Management updates the committee, as necessary, regarding any material cybersecurity incidents, as well as any incidents with lesser impact potential. The committee reports to the full Board of Directors regarding its activities, including those related to cybersecurity. The full Board of Directors also receives briefings from management on the cyber risk management program.
Who leads security
The company's CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles. The SPACE team has primary responsibility for the overall cybersecurity risk management program and supervises both internal cybersecurity personnel and retained external cybersecurity consultants. Board members receive presentations on cybersecurity topics from the CISO, internal security staff, or external experts as part of the Board of Directors' continuing education.
How the company manages cyber risk
Reddit maintains a cybersecurity risk management program with policies and controls designed to protect its platform and data from cyber threats. The cybersecurity risk management program is integrated into the overall enterprise risk management program. The program includes a cybersecurity incident response plan. The incident response plan follows recognized frameworks such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework and outlines procedures for investigating and resolving incidents.
Third parties and incidents
The company uses external service providers, such as third-party penetration testing firms, bug bounty programs, or auditors, to assess, test, or otherwise assist with aspects of its security controls. The company has a third-party risk management process for service providers, suppliers, and vendors that incorporates evaluations like SOC 2 reports, annual reviews, and security questionnaires. The company has not identified risks from known cybersecurity incidents, including prior incidents, that have materially affected it.
Read from the Form 10-K filed February 6, 2026, on . Every sentence rests on a passage of the section reproduced below.
The filing's fields, each with its sentence
Who leads security (the top role, as the filing names it)
Chief Information Security Officer
Reports to
not identified
Board oversight
Audit Committee
“Our Board of Directors considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to the Audit Committee (the "Committee") oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks.”
CISO or other person named
Fredrick Lee (as of the filing date)
“Our CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles.”
Frameworks and standards named
NIST Cybersecurity Framework, SOC 2
Where the filing names them
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework: “• a cybersecurity incident response plan that follows recognized frameworks (e.g., National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework), outlines procedures for investigating and resolving incidents, and is supported by automated tools for threat triage and resolution; and”
- SOC 2: “• a third-party risk management process for service providers, suppliers, and vendors incorporating evaluations like SOC 2 reports, annual reviews, and security questionnaires to ensure risks are understood and addressed.”
Outside assessors, consultants or testers
Described
“• the use of external service providers , such as third-party penetration testing firms, bug bounty programs, or auditors, to assess, test, or otherwise assist with aspects of our security controls;”
Experience of the security leadership, as stated
Stated
“Our CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles.”
Material incident
The filing states none
“We have not identified risks from known cybersecurity incidents, including as a result of any prior cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected us, including our business, results of operations, and financial condition.”
The section
682 words, Form 10-K filed February 6, 2026 for the period ended December 31, 2025
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How peers in the same industry describe the seat
The SEC assigns Reddit standard industrial classification 7374, Services-computer processing & data preparation (SEC SIC list). 8 other filers in our library have the same code.
| Filer | Top security role | Reports to | Board oversight |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReposiTrak, Inc.FY 2026, filed September 28, 2026 | not identified | not identified | Audit Committee |
| Avai Bio, Inc.FY 2026, filed July 14, 2026 | not identified | not identified | full board |
| 8x8, Inc.FY 2026, filed May 22, 2026 | Chief Information Security Officer | Chief Legal Officer | Technology & Cybersecurity Committee |
| DXC TechnologyFY 2026, filed May 8, 2026 | Global Chief Information Security Officer | President of Global Infrastructure Services | Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee |
| Gloo Holdings, Inc.FY 2026, filed April 15, 2026 | Director of Security & Information Technology | not identified | Audit Committee |
| Veritone, Inc.FY 2025, filed April 15, 2026 | Chief Information Security Officer | not identified | full board |
| Ooma IncFY 2026, filed April 3, 2026 | Chief Information Security Officer | not identified | full board |
| Powerdyne International, Inc.FY 2025, filed April 3, 2026 | Chief Executive Officer | not identified | full board |
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Item 1C, verbatim from the filing
The text below is the Cybersecurity item of Reddit's Form 10-K as filed with the SEC on February 6, 2026, reproduced word for word from the filing on sec.gov. Page numbers and navigation lines have been removed; nothing has been added. It describes governance as of that date.
Item 1C. Cybersecurity
Risk Management and Strategy
The nature of Reddit's business makes the company susceptible to cybersecurity attacks. To address this, we maintain a cybersecurity risk management program with policies and controls designed to protect our platform and data from cyber threats. Our cybersecurity risk management program is intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and information. Our cybersecurity risk management program includes a cybersecurity incident response plan. We design and assess our cybersecurity risk management program based on applicable laws and regulations and remain informed by industry standards and industry-recognized practices.
Our cybersecurity risk management program is integrated into our overall enterprise risk management program, and shares common methodologies, reporting channels, and governance processes that apply across the enterprise risk management program.
Our cybersecurity risk management program includes:
• risk assessments designed to help identify material cybersecurity risks to our critical systems, information, products, services, and our broader enterprise IT environment;
• a dedicated security team principally responsible for managing (1) our cybersecurity risk assessment processes, (2) our security controls, and (3) our response to cybersecurity incidents;
• the use of external service providers , such as third-party penetration testing firms, bug bounty programs, or auditors, to assess, test, or otherwise assist with aspects of our security controls;
• cybersecurity awareness training of our employees, incident response personnel, and senior management, including onboarding sessions and annual refresher training to address evolving threats;
• a cybersecurity incident response plan that follows recognized frameworks (e.g., National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework), outlines procedures for investigating and resolving incidents, and is supported by automated tools for threat triage and resolution; and
• a third-party risk management process for service providers, suppliers, and vendors incorporating evaluations like SOC 2 reports, annual reviews, and security questionnaires to ensure risks are understood and addressed.
We have not identified risks from known cybersecurity incidents, including as a result of any prior cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected us, including our business, results of operations, and financial condition. We face risks from cybersecurity threats that, if realized, are reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our business, operations, results of operations, or financial condition. For additional information about these risks, see Part I, Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Cybersecurity Governance
Our Board of Directors considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to the Audit Committee (the "Committee") oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks. The Committee oversees management's implementation of our cybersecurity risk management program.
The Committee receives regular reports from management on our cybersecurity risks. In addition, management updates the Committee, as necessary, regarding any material cybersecurity incidents, as well as any incidents with lesser impact potential.
The Committee reports to the full Board of Directors regarding its activities, including those related to cybersecurity. The full Board of Directors also receives briefings from management on our cyber risk management program. Board members receive presentations on cybersecurity topics from our Chief Information Security Officer ("CISO") , internal security staff, or external experts as part of the Board of Directors' continuing education on topics that impact public companies.
Our CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles. Mr. Lee currently oversees Reddit's Security, Privacy, Assurance, Corporate Engineering ("SPACE") team, which is responsible for assessing and managing our material risks from cybersecurity threats. Our SPACE team has primary responsibility for our overall cybersecurity risk management program and supervises both our internal cybersecurity personnel and our retained external cybersecurity consultants. Our SPACE team has a strong foundation of expertise, developed over years of experience in cybersecurity and engineering across diverse industries, including technology.
Our SPACE team supervises efforts to prevent, detect, mitigate, remediate, and appropriately report cybersecurity risks and incidents through various means, which may include briefings from internal security personnel; threat intelligence and other information obtained from governmental, public, or private sources, including external consultants engaged by us; and alerts and reports produced by security tools deployed in the IT environment.
Earlier filings on record
Fiscal 2024 Form 10-K, filed February 13, 2025 sec.gov ↗
Top security role, as the filing names it
Chief Information Security Officer
Reports to, as the filing names it
not identified
Board oversight
Audit Committee
“Our board of directors considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to the Audit Committee (the "Committee") oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks.”
Person named in the filing
Fredrick Lee
“Our CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles.”
Experience, as stated
Stated
“Our CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles.”
Material incident
The filing states none
“We have not identified risks from known cybersecurity incidents, including as a result of any prior cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected us, including our business, results of operations, and financial condition.”
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Item 1C. Cybersecurity
Risk Management and Strategy
The nature of Reddit's business makes the company susceptible to cybersecurity attacks. To address this, we maintain a cybersecurity risk management program with policies and controls designed to protect our platform and data from cyber threats. Our cybersecurity risk management program is intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and information. Our cybersecurity risk management program includes a cybersecurity incident response plan. We design and assess our cybersecurity risk management program based on applicable laws and regulations and remain informed by industry standards and industry-recognized practices.
Our cybersecurity risk management program is integrated into our overall enterprise risk management program, and shares common methodologies, reporting channels, and governance processes that apply across the enterprise risk management program.
Our cybersecurity risk management program includes:
• risk assessments designed to help identify material cybersecurity risks to our critical systems, information, products, services, and our broader enterprise IT environment;
• a dedicated security team principally responsible for managing (1) our cybersecurity risk assessment processes, (2) our security controls, and (3) our response to cybersecurity incidents;
• the use of external service providers , such as third-party penetration testing firms, bug bounty programs, or auditors, to assess, test, or otherwise assist with aspects of our security controls;
• cybersecurity awareness training of our employees, incident response personnel, and senior management, including onboarding sessions and annual refresher training to address evolving threats;
• a cybersecurity incident response plan that follows recognized frameworks (e.g., National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework), outlines procedures for investigating and resolving incidents, and is supported by automated tools for threat triage and resolution; and
• a third-party risk management process for service providers, suppliers, and vendors incorporating evaluations like SOC 2 reports, annual reviews, and security questionnaires to ensure risks are understood and addressed.
We have not identified risks from known cybersecurity incidents, including as a result of any prior cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected us, including our business, results of operations, and financial condition. We face risks from cybersecurity threats that, if realized, are reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our business, operations, results of operations, or financial condition. For additional information about these risks, see Part I, Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Cybersecurity Governance
Our board of directors considers cybersecurity risk as part of its risk oversight function and has delegated to the Audit Committee (the "Committee") oversight of cybersecurity and other information technology risks. The Committee oversees management's implementation of our cybersecurity risk management program.
The Committee receives regular reports from management on our cybersecurity risks. In addition, management updates the Committee, as necessary, regarding any material cybersecurity incidents, as well as any incidents with lesser impact potential.
The Committee reports to the full board of directors regarding its activities, including those related to cybersecurity. The full board of directors also receives briefings from management on our cyber risk management program. Board members receive presentations on cybersecurity topics from our Chief Information Security Officer ("CISO") , internal security staff, or external experts as part of the board of directors' continuing education on topics that impact public companies.
Our CISO, Fredrick Lee, has over twenty years of experience in information security, engineering, and other technology-related roles. Mr. Lee currently oversees Reddit's Security, Privacy, And Compliance Engineering ("SPACE") team, which is responsible for assessing and managing our material risks from cybersecurity threats. Our SPACE team has primary responsibility for our overall cybersecurity risk management program and supervises both our internal cybersecurity personnel and our retained external cybersecurity consultants. Our SPACE team has a strong foundation of expertise, developed over years of experience in cybersecurity and engineering across diverse industries, including technology.
Our SPACE team supervises efforts to prevent, detect, mitigate, remediate, and appropriately report cybersecurity risks and incidents through various means, which may include briefings from internal security personnel; threat intelligence and other information obtained from governmental, public, or private sources, including external consultants engaged by us; and alerts and reports produced by security tools deployed in the IT environment.
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