Guides

Concrete answers, question by question.

Standard questionnaires, GDPR, security, method: practical guides written by the Prova team to prepare your vendor dossiers without starting from scratch.

Security

Do you need ISO 27001 certification to answer a security questionnaire?

No, ISO 27001 certification is almost never required to answer an enterprise security questionnaire. What it actually changes, what it does not exempt you from proving, and how to answer solidly without it, one piece of evidence at a time.

July 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Questionnaires

SIG Lite questionnaire: where to start when you receive one

SIG Lite (Standardized Information Gathering), published by Shared Assessments, is a third-party risk assessment questionnaire widely used in finance. A concrete method for filling it out: the document base, answering domain by domain, handling gaps, and common mistakes.

July 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Questionnaires

CAIQ questionnaire: how to fill it out without starting from scratch

The CAIQ (Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire) is the Cloud Security Alliance's standard questionnaire. A concrete method for filling it out: the document base, answering domain by domain, handling gaps, and common mistakes.

July 2, 2026 · 7 min read

GDPR

GDPR processor questionnaire: answering Article 28 without guesswork

Preparing a GDPR processor questionnaire for an enterprise customer: what the customer's data protection officer checks, the Article 28 clauses, the sub-processor register, and transfers outside the EU.

June 18, 2026 · 7 min read

Method

How to answer a vendor security questionnaire: the four-move method

A concrete method for answering an enterprise vendor security questionnaire: how to qualify the request, find the supporting evidence, flag the gaps, and get internal validation before sending.

June 3, 2026 · 6 min read

Security

Vendor security questionnaire: how to prepare a dossier that passes

Preparing an enterprise vendor security questionnaire: what the customer checks, the supporting evidence expected, the common mistakes, and the Prova method for structuring every answer.

May 12, 2026 · 6 min read