Cloud Infrastructure Provider Security Questionnaire

An editable 19-page field guide for the analyst mapping what a cloud provider actually operates and what the customer still has to configure itself. 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
• Forty-eight numbered items, CIP-01 to CIP-48, grouped into twelve control domains
• Service Scope and Shared Responsibility, Governance and Assurance, Identity and Privileged Access, and Tenant Isolation and Virtualization
• Network and Edge Security, Data Protection and Key Management, Configuration and Change Security, and Vulnerability and Workload Security
• Logging and Detection, Resilience, Backup and Recovery, Incident Response and Forensics, and Physical, Legal, Contract and Exit
• 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

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.