Can you defend every “Yes”?
See which security questionnaire answers your existing compliance evidence can actually support — and where the evidence is partial, insufficient or missing.
Security questionnaires are easy to complete.
Defending the answers is harder.
AlturaQuantera helps you connect customer security questions to the assessment findings and evidence behind them — so you can distinguish a defensible Yes from a qualified answer or an honest Unknown.
Instead of generating the answer that sounds most plausible, you can see what your current evidence actually supports, where it falls short, and what you still need to prove.
Not every question should get the same kind of answer
A customer questionnaire may ask for a simple Yes or No. Your evidence may tell a more nuanced story.
Do you require MFA for privileged and important systems?
If the relevant control is assessed as Met and the underlying procedure explicitly requires MFA for the systems in scope, the answer can be Yes — and you can show why.
The answer is not just generated. It is traceable to the assessment and the evidence behind it.
Do you regularly review and recertify privileged access?
The process may be clearly defined while the evidence of execution is still incomplete.
A procedure saying that privileged access is reviewed quarterly does not, by itself, prove that the latest quarterly review actually happened.
That is the difference between being able to describe the process and being able to defend the claim.
Do you maintain an approved information security policy that is reviewed periodically?
Related procedures and security records may exist without proving that this specific policy exists, is approved, has an owner, and follows a defined review cycle.
In that case, the useful answer is not a polished Yes.
It is Unknown.
A policy is not evidence that the control operated
A procedure saying that privileged access is reviewed quarterly proves that the process is defined.
It does not prove that the latest review actually happened.
The same distinction appears throughout security and compliance work:
- a backup policy is not a restore test;
- an incident-response procedure is not a completed post-incident review;
- a supplier-security process is not a supplier review record;
- an access-control policy is not a privileged-access recertification.
Different evidence proves different claims.
From customer question to defensible answer
AlturaQuantera does more than search uploaded documents for similar words.
A customer question is connected to the compliance context behind it:
Customer question → relevant assessment finding → supporting evidence → limitations and gaps → draft answer → human review
That matters because several documents may mention the right topic without actually proving the claim being asked.
The useful result is not simply a plausible answer. It is an answer whose limits are visible.
Want to see the full example?
I walked through the same three questionnaire cases in more detail — including the underlying assessment results and why one answer was Yes, one needed qualification, and one had to remain Unknown.
Read the full security questionnaire evidence walkthrough →
Stop reconstructing your security story for every customer
Your evidence already exists across policies, procedures, assessments, reviews and operational records.
AlturaQuantera helps you reuse that evidence without quietly overstating what it proves.
This page is general information, not legal advice. Confirm requirements that apply to your organization with a qualified advisor.