The security questionnaire your biggest client just sent you
Larger customers push their security requirements down to their vendors. What they are actually asking for, and how to answer without claiming controls you do not have.
A client's procurement or security team sends a spreadsheet, and somewhere in it is a request for your information security policy and your incident response plan.
What the engine actually produced for one real business of this kind — including the gaps, which it states with a remediation clause rather than leaving out.
What tends to be true of firms like yours.
They are checking that someone is managing this
A vendor review is not really testing whether you are a security company. It is testing whether there is a named owner, written practice, and a plan for when something goes wrong. Firms fail these by having nothing written down, far more often than by having weak controls.
The “who manages X?” rows have a specific answer
Most questionnaires ask, for each service you rely on, who secures what. The Vendor Responsibility Matrix answers those rows directly — built from the tools you actually told us you use, rather than a generic list.
Answer honestly; it holds up better
Overstating a control to pass a review creates a contractual representation you may not be able to stand behind. A gap stated with a remediation commitment and an owner reads as competence to a reviewer, and does not become a liability later.
Reusable, not one-off
The same document set answers the next client's questionnaire and your own insurance renewal. Re-answer what changed a year later and regenerate, rather than rebuilding from scratch each time.
Coverwright produces security documentation, not legal or insurance advice, and does not guarantee that any client, auditor or carrier will accept it.
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