Third Party Cyber Risk Management Program Checklist

An editable 17-page field guide for the analyst who has to show that a TPRM programme is real rather than documented. It is built for the common starting point: critical vendors with inconsistent owners and assessments nobody has refreshed in two years. 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
• 28 numbered items, TPRM-01 to TPRM-28, grouped into 6 control domains and split into 23 Core checks for any vendor in scope and 5 Enhanced checks for the harder cases
• Mandate Governance and Operating Model; Inventory Intake and Risk Tiering; and Due Diligence Selection and Approval
• Contracts Onboarding and Shared Responsibility; Monitoring Incidents and Fourth Parties; and Remediation Exit Assurance and Improvement
• 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 28 items 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.