About the Vendor & Third-Party Security Policy Generator

What this tool does

It assembles a vendor and third-party security policy tailored to your environment. You set risk tiers, evidence requirements, contractual clauses, and monitoring cadence. The tool generates a clean policy you can review, approve, and publish.

How to use it

• Enter your company name, policy owner, scope, and effective date.
• Choose a risk tiering approach and list data classifications the vendor will handle.
• Define due-diligence evidence such as questionnaires, SOC 2 or ISO certificates, and pen test summaries.
• Set contractual clauses including DPA, breach notification window, sub-processor approvals, and audit rights.
• Describe onboarding checks, access controls, monitoring cadence, SLAs, and issue management.
• Generate the policy, download it, route for approvals, and publish in your policy library.

What it covers

• Risk tiering model and business use case.
• Required security evidence, external assurance, and testing.
• Core contract terms: DPA, breach notification, audit rights, data location and transfers, encryption, retention, insurance.
• Onboarding readiness, access management, continuous monitoring, and SLAs.
• Governance, acknowledgment, review cycle, exceptions, and termination steps.

Helpful references

Compare your selections with industry frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27036 (Supplier relationships), CIS Controls, and NIST SP 800-161 (Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management).