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Security questionnaire response template
Organize questions, owners, evidence, gaps, and final review in one editable workbook. No email address required.
What is inside
Record the question, proposed answer, status, source, owner, and review note.
Route identity, architecture, response, privacy, continuity, and product questions.
Track source readiness, accountable owners, last approval, and missing material.
Check evidence, scope, freshness, precision, exceptions, consistency, and disclosure.
How evidence status works
A current approved source directly supports the material claim.
Some wording is supported, but scope, timing, frequency, completion, or another claim still needs evidence.
No approved source supports a responsible answer. The workbook leaves the answer blank and assigns the gap.
Important: the populated answers are fictional
The sample rows describe NimbusCore, a fictional demo company. They demonstrate the difference between a source-backed answer, a partial answer, and a gap. They are not recommended responses for your organization and must not be copied into a customer submission as fact.
Replace every example with wording supported by your own approved policies, system evidence, contracts, and accountable owners.
A responsible workflow
- Import without restructuring.Preserve the customer's row order, identifiers, dependencies, and required format.
- Assign each category.One accountable person owns the factual truth; another may review customer wording.
- Attach evidence before polishing prose.Good writing cannot rescue a claim the organization cannot support.
- Resolve gaps visibly.Leave unsupported answers unclaimed and name the next collection step.
- Approve and preserve provenance.Save the final wording with source, owner, scope, and approval date.