Answer a vendor security questionnaire from your Policyseed answers
A free first draft of the answers to a standard vendor security questionnaire: the 35 questions in our questionnaire template, which cover what most customer questionnaires ask. Each answer is written from the answers you gave the Policyseed generator and the policies generated from them, names your actual tools, and marks clearly where only you can fill in the fact. Edit any answer below, then download it as Excel, CSV or Markdown.
[needs your input: …] placeholder.How the draft is written
- From your intake. Facts you entered, such as “Multi-factor authentication is enforced through Okta” or who owns security and where to report a concern.
- From your policies. What your adopted policy commits you to, phrased as “Our Access Control Policy requires …” with a link to the policy. These are only true if you have adopted the policy and follow it.
- Needs your input. Facts no intake holds: whether you have an assurance report, penetration test and restore test dates, recovery objectives, data regions, tenant isolation, your subprocessor list and incident history.
The draft never claims a certification, an audit result, a test date or an uptime figure. If a customer asks about one, answer from your own records.
Answer fewer questionnaires
A public security page answers many questions before they are asked, and a customer who has read it often sends a shorter questionnaire or none at all. The free trust page generator builds one from the same saved answers. When you need to send questionnaires to your own vendors, use the vendor security questionnaire template.
When the customer sends their own questionnaire
Their wording rarely matches this template. The Questionnaire Pack ($19 for three questionnaires of up to 150 questions) takes their spreadsheet as it is, matches each question to the statements in your policies, and drafts an answer that cites them, marking anything your policies do not cover for you to fill in. You download their workbook with the answers added.
If you want the evidence behind these answers organised for an audit, the Audit Kit adds tailored policies and the registers and checklists that go with them.
Frequently asked questions
- Where do the answers come from?
- From two places only: the facts you entered in the Policyseed generator (your hosting, identity provider, device management, logging and backup tools, owners and contacts), and what the policies generated from those answers require. An answer based on a policy says so and names it. Anything neither source covers, such as report status, test dates or recovery objectives, is left as a placeholder for you to fill in.
- Can I send the answers as they are?
- No. Treat them as a first draft. Every answer you send is a statement your customer may rely on and may write into the contract, so read each one, replace every placeholder, and delete or rewrite anything that is not true today. An answer that cites a policy is only accurate if you have adopted that policy and follow it.
- My customer sent their own questionnaire. Does this still help?
- Usually. Most security questionnaires ask the same core questions in different words: MFA, encryption, access reviews, vulnerability management, incident notification, backups, subprocessors, training and change control. Use the downloaded answers as a library and copy the relevant one into each question of their form or portal, adjusting the wording to fit.
- Why does the draft not state our SOC 2 status?
- Because nothing on this page can know that. SOC 2 is an examination report issued by a CPA firm, and having written policies is not the same as having a report. The first question asks you to state your report status yourself, and the page never claims a report, certification, test result or uptime figure for you.
- Is anything I type sent to a server?
- No. The answers are generated and edited in your browser, the downloads are built in your browser, and your saved generator answers are read from this browser's local storage. Edits are not saved, so download before you close the page.
Policyseed provides governance policy templates and AI tailoring. It is not legal advice and not a compliance guarantee. Management adopts the policies; the CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination.