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title: Third parties and vendors questions on cyber insurance applications
url: "https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties"
section: Third parties and vendors
questions: 6
updated: 2026-08-24
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# Third parties and vendors: what cyber insurance applications ask

Vendor review, service-provider access, contractual indemnity and insurance requirements, and where your sensitive records actually sit.

## 6 questions in this section

- [Does the Applicant review and audit information security/privacy controls of IT, cloud, and non-IT service providers?](https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties/applicant-review-audit-information-security-privacy-controls-cloud-non) (attested, not tenant-verifiable)
- [Is service provider access to network/data restricted on least-privilege basis, reviewed periodically?](https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties/service-provider-access-network-data-restricted-least-privilege-basis) (verifiable from your tenant)
- [Do written agreements with third parties contain defense/indemnification + insurance requirements?](https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties/written-agreements-third-parties-contain-defense-indemnification-insurance-requirements) (attested, not tenant-verifiable)
- [Does the Applicant fully outsource payment card processing?](https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties/applicant-fully-outsource-payment-card-processing) (attested, not tenant-verifiable)
- [Has any service provider with access to Applicant's network sustained outage longer than 4 hours?](https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties/service-provider-access-applicant-s-network-sustained-outage-longer) (attested, not tenant-verifiable)
- [Does the Applicant use a cloud provider, and which provider stores the largest quantity of sensitive records?](https://insuranceposture.com/questions/third-parties/applicant-cloud-provider-provider-stores-largest-quantity-sensitive-records) (partly verifiable from your tenant)

Full index: https://insuranceposture.com/questions

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