Vendor Cyber Recovery and Ransomware Resilience Questionnaire

An editable 20-page field guide for the question a vendor’s marketing never answers: if they were encrypted during your peak season, what would actually come back, and how fast. 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, VCR-01 to VCR-48, grouped into ten control domains
• Vendor and Service Context, Governance and Accountability, and Attack Surface and Prevention
• Backup Scope and Architecture, Backup Protection and Administration, and Recovery Strategy and Clean Restoration
• Detection Response and Communications, Exercises and Evidence, Dependencies Contracts and Customer Support, and Improvement 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.