Security questionnaire evidence checklist
A reusable evidence-readiness checklist for policies, architecture, controls, ownership, unknowns and customer-safe handoff.
How to use it
Copy, assign owners, then attach real evidence.
A checklist is useful only if each item has an owner and a verifiable state. Do not mark an item complete because a tool returned a green badge.
- [ ] Questionnaire owner and deadline confirmed - [ ] Policies, architecture and control evidence sources indexed - [ ] Every material answer linked to evidence or marked unknown - [ ] Internal-only details removed from customer-facing text - [ ] Human approver recorded - [ ] Final XLSX/response checked for accidental sensitive content
Checklist
What complete should mean.
Questionnaire owner and deadline confirmed
Policies, architecture and control evidence sources indexed
Every material answer linked to evidence or marked unknown
Internal-only details removed from customer-facing text
Human approver recorded
Final XLSX/response checked for accidental sensitive content
The template is an operating aid, not certification.
Use the checklist to structure evidence, ownership and review. It does not replace the authoritative system, regulator, specialist audit, legal advice or professional judgement that may apply to the underlying job.