Vendor Cyber Due-Diligence Checklist
A checklist to sign off before giving a software vendor, accountant or agency access to your systems or data — identity, data handling, access, backups, breach terms.
Vendor Cyber Due-Diligence Checklist
A signed checklist before a software vendor, accountant or agency gets access to your systems or data — identity, data handling, access, backups, breach terms. Fill in the details and download the clean copy — free.
Questions people ask
Why check vendors?
Under the DPDP Act you remain responsible for personal data your processors handle; a signed checklist and a contract clause are your evidence of reasonable safeguards.
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More on the Cyber Desk
- 📝 Complaint generatorA ready-to-file complaint for the Cyber Crime Cell and the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal — dated facts, the transactions, the provisions of the IT Act and the BNS, and the reliefs sought. Free, clean copy, editable Word.
- 🏦 Bank dispute letterThe letter to your bank for an unauthorised transaction — the RBI limited-liability rule, the three-day window, the transactions, and the request for a block and a reversal.
- 👮 Police complaintA formal complaint to the Station House Officer for online fraud, extortion, impersonation or hacking — facts in order, the provisions, the evidence list and the request for an FIR.
- 🛡️ IT security policyA one-signature policy every employee signs — passwords and 2FA, devices and USBs, e-mail and phishing, payments and vendor changes, social media, personal data under the DPDP Act, incident reporting.
- 📣 Breach notificationThe notices you must send after a personal-data breach — to affected customers and to the Data Protection Board / CERT-In — what happened, what data, what you did, what they should do.
- 📒 Incident logA dated, numbered log of the incident — what was noticed, when, by whom, what was done, evidence preserved — the record banks, police and insurers ask for first.
The Cyber Desk provides educational tools, checklists and self-help drafts — not legal advice. For serious or high-value fraud, also consult the police and a qualified lawyer.