Vendor Oversight Checklist for Title and Escrow

The same two-page checklist I use with clients, adapted from Chapter 9 of The Safeguards Rule Implementation Handbook: Title & Escrow Edition.

Every title operation runs on other people's software, other people's servers, and other people's employees. The FTC Safeguards Rule lets you hand them the work but never the responsibility. This checklist walks you through the three duties in 16 CFR 314.4(f): selecting vendors that can protect customer information, binding them by contract, and reassessing them on a schedule. It includes the seven-question vendor security questionnaire and the vendor inventory template, ready to fill in. Enter your name and email and I'll send it over.