Vendor Incident Response Readiness Questionnaire

An editable 17-page field guide for the analyst who has to work out, before anything goes wrong, whether a vendor can run an incident that reaches your organization. Every item explains why it matters, the result a good answer should produce, the evidence to request, and the next analyst move.

What’s inside

• A readiness page confirming the vendor entity, product, environment, region and service in scope, business criticality and data sensitivity, the internal owners who can validate each claim, and how restricted evidence will be handled
• Thirty numbered items, IRR-01 to IRR-30, grouped into 8 control domains
• Scope, Governance, and Authority; Preparation, Roles, and Resources; Detection, Triage, and Escalation; and Containment, Eradication, and Coordination
• Evidence, Investigation, and Threat Analysis; Customer Notification and External Communication; Recovery, Validation, and Improvement; and Exercises, Assurance, and Readiness Evidence
• Response, evidence reference, action owner and due date against every item, so the completed form is the assessment record rather than a questionnaire you transcribe later
• A rapid final checklist that restates all 30 questions on one page for the closing challenge

The assessment rule is written into the form: evidence should be current, complete for the service in scope, usable by your organization, tested where capability matters, and linked to a decision. A certificate, policy, screenshot or vendor statement is not enough on its own when it does not prove the specific requirement.