2025 Guide to Completing a Vendor Risk Management Questionnaire

This report provides a 2025-focused vendor risk management (VRM) questionnaire and guidance, outlining four steps—identify cybersecurity risks, technical controls, process controls, and people controls—plus sample questions/tables for assessing PII handling, network and endpoint security, incident response, and workforce training; it also recommends integrating continuous monitoring and security ratings platforms to streamline assessments of third- and fourth-party vendor risk.