Vendor Vulnerability and Patch Management Questionnaire

An editable 18-page field guide for the analyst separating a vendor that scans from a vendor that actually remediates. 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-two numbered items, VPM-01 to VPM-32, grouped into 8 control domains
• Program Scope and Accountability; Asset Inventory and Coverage; Discovery and Threat Intelligence; and Prioritization and Remediation Targets
• Patch Acquisition, Testing, and Deployment; Exceptions and Compensating Controls; Product, Cloud, and Supplier Vulnerabilities; and Verification, Metrics, and Customer Reporting
• 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 32 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.