Powell Industries: the CISO reports to the Chief Financial Officer

Powell Industries, Inc. states a direct executive reporting line for its Chief Information Security Officer, rather than describing the role only by its reports to board committees, in the Item 1C Cybersecurity disclosure of its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, filed November 19, 2025.

The filing says the cybersecurity program is led by the Chief Information Security Officer, who reports to the Chief Financial Officer.

Separately, the filing describes the Chief Information Security Officer's own reporting upward to the board level: on an annual basis the Chief Information Security Officer reports to the Audit Committee on threat management, incident response and recovery planning, and periodically presents directly to the full Board of Directors.

This record states the reporting line exactly as the filing describes it, with no view on whether reporting to the CFO rather than the CEO, CIO or board affects the program. See the network's reporting-line record for how other companies describe theirs.