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Re: HECVAT alternative for On-Prem Vendors


From: "Pitt, Sharon" <spitt () UDEL EDU>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 17:19:20 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this resource Randy!

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of randy
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 11:13 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] HECVAT alternative for On-Prem Vendors

This is our "on-prem" vendor questionnaire that we've used in the past couple of years. It's at 
https://itpals.vt.edu/content/dam/itpals_vt_edu/newitasitedocs/it-procurement/it_security_questionnaire2.pdf. We took 
Notre Dame and IU's original questionnaires and modified them.

We will be using HECVAT for more  evals in the future..

Randy Marchany
VA Tech IT Security Office and Lab


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 7:24 AM Belsito, Louis D <belsito () rowan edu<mailto:belsito () rowan edu>> wrote:
I’ve been struggling with this issue as well.  I’ve been using Gartner’s Security and Privacy Vendor Application 
Evaluation (VSPT Questionnaire) it’s a spreadsheet for basic security and privacy assessment of vendor applications.  
It’s not as clean and pretty as the HECVAT.  It’s about 60 questions.


____________________________________

Lou Belsito, MBA, MISM, CISSP, CISA
Manager, Information Security Risk
Information Security Office
Division of Information Resources & Technology

Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028
T: 856-256-5725
Rowan.edu

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV 
EDUCAUSE EDU>> On Behalf Of Tyler Newell
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:26 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject: [SECURITY] HECVAT alternative for On-Prem Vendors

Community,

We started using the HECVAT for cloud vendor assessments a little more than a year ago and have been very happy with it 
especially when a vendor has already filled one out so we aren’t waiting to receive it back.

That said, we’ve had contract expirations for some of our on-premise vendors and wanted to run them through a similar 
process to properly assess their product(s). I wasn’t able to find a standardized assessment questionnaire like the 
HECVAT when it comes to on-premise, so I thought I would reach out to see if anyone had a document already created that 
they are willing to share.

I appreciate your time for reading this.

Thank you,

//SIGNED//
Tyler Newell, Information Security Analyst
Bowling Green State University | Information Technology Services
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