interpreting-vendor-questionnaire-skeptically

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps reviewers assess vendor security questionnaires, attestations, and trust-center claims skeptically so they can spot unsupported statements, contradictions, stale evidence, and scope mismatches before making a risk decision.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Evidence-tied review: Walks each claim against the attached evidence and calls out gaps, missing artifacts, and hedge words.
• Third-party risk analysis: Compares SIG, CAIQ, SOC 2, ISO, and custom responses to surface contradictions and outdated attestations.
• AI vendor scrutiny: Checks no-train commitments, data residency, sub-processors, retention, and model-versioning language for AI and LLM vendors.
• Use case: A procurement or security team can use this Skill when a vendor returns a questionnaire response and the team needs a findings report instead of a rubber stamp.

Quick Start

Review the vendor's questionnaire response and attached evidence skeptically, identify every unsupported claim, contradiction, and stale attestation, and return a findings-only report with follow-up questions.