Writing
The questionnaires, and how they get answered
What CAIQ and SIG actually ask for, who ends up owning them inside a company of fifteen people, and how to answer one without asserting a control you cannot evidence. Written for the person the questionnaire lands on.
How to Answer a Security Questionnaire (Without Losing a Week)
A practical process for answering CAIQ, SIG and bespoke vendor questionnaires accurately, and why the answers you keep matter more than the ones you write.
CAIQ v4 Explained: What It Is and How to Fill It In
A walkthrough of the Cloud Security Alliance's CAIQ v4: its 17 control domains, how the answer format works, and where teams most often get it wrong.
SIG vs SIG Lite: Which One You Should Be Answering
Shared Assessments' SIG comes in several sizes. Knowing which one applies to you can be the difference between a day's work and three weeks.
Security Questionnaire Automation: What the Tools Actually Do
Compliance platforms, trust centers and answer libraries solve different problems. A guide to which category fits which bottleneck.
Nobody Owns Security Questionnaires (And That's the Real Problem)
The reason questionnaires take weeks is rarely the questions. It is that the work sits between sales, engineering and compliance, and belongs to none of them.
The Questionnaire Is Not the Problem. The Second One Is.
Answering a security questionnaire once is annoying. Answering the same forty questions again in different words, four months later, is the thing that actually costs you.
Or stop answering them by hand.
Every answer drafted from your own documents, quoting the passage and naming the page it is on.