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Business Continuity Planning
Consultancy
In our digital world, an unexpected outage, even a short one, can have serious operational and financial consequences. Westminster Business Continuity provides professional IT Disaster Recovery Consulting for organisations in Cheshire and across the UK, helping you plan, test, and maintain a recovery capability that keeps your business running when the unexpected occurs.
Our consultants work closely with your technical team to build realistic, ISO 22301-aligned recovery strategies that safeguard critical systems, protect data, and ensure compliance with both internal governance and external regulations. For more than a decade, we have supported businesses throughout the UK in developing robust Disaster Recovery Plans that integrate seamlessly with wider business continuity frameworks.
Our approach is practical and evidence-based. Each Disaster Recovery Plan is designed to match your infrastructure, risk profile, and required recovery time objectives.
General Data Protection Regulation
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Business Continuity Planning
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The IT Disaster Recovery Health Check
Every engagement begins with the IT Disaster Recovery Health Check. This is an assessment service which follows a risk-based approach for evaluating the effectiveness of your existing IT Disaster Recovery Plan and governance in terms of policies and procedures in place. This evaluation provides the foundation for all subsequent Disaster Recovery Planning work.
This initial stage reviews your overall IT Disaster Recovery programme and considers its relevance, comprehensiveness, and practicality by assessing the following critical areas:
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IT Disaster Recover policy
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IT Application/Services Analysis approach
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IT Disaster Recovery Strategies
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IT Disaster Recovery Testing
The structured Health Check, led by an experienced Disaster Recovery Analyst, delivers a clear picture of where improvements are needed, providing:
• A detailed assessment of your current Disaster Recovery Plan effectiveness.
• A clear outline of the proposed scope for your project.
• Detailed and customised information necessary to develop a strong business case for implementation.
Comprehensive Disaster Recovery Services
Our IT Disaster Recovery Program is built on experience and incorporates a full lifecycle of services to strengthen your recovery capability. Our team of Disaster Recovery Consultants works from our base in Cheshire to ensure the solution is both technically sound and operationally achievable for clients across the UK.
Following the Health Check, our service includes:
• IT Disaster Recovery policy review and implementation: We will review your current policy and ensure it meets ISO-22301 standards.
• IT Application/Services Analysis: We will provide an analysis document, meet with your IT teams, and implement the analysis to map dependencies.
• IT Disaster Recovery Planning: We will provide an IT Disaster Recovery template and help your technical teams complete the new template to develop a robust Disaster Recovery Plan.
• IT Disaster Recovery Testing: We will document a detailed plausible simulation test and also document and lead real Disaster Recovery Testing with your IT teams. All test documentation, from initiation to lessons learned, will be meticulously documented.
By partnering with Westminster Business Continuity, your organisation gains the expertise of a dedicated Disaster Recovery Consultant to reduce downtime risk and preserve business integrity. For organisations across Cheshire and the UK, this partnership builds confidence that recovery processes will work precisely when needed.
Contact Westminster Business Continuity today to arrange an IT Disaster Recovery Health Check and learn how our specialist consultancy can strengthen you resilience, whether you are based in Cheshire or elsewhere across the UK.
Providing Business Continuity & Specialist Data Privacy Support for over 10 years
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Gap Assessment
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The Gap Assessment is a detailed set of questions based on the regulation, and will highlight gaps between your current data protection practices and the requirements under GDPR
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The questionnaire attempts to collect information about the current Data Protection practices of each business unit across your company, in order to assess the regulatory and reputational risks of non-compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR')
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The output will highlight gaps between your current data protection practices and the requirements under GDPR
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2018 Data Protection Act Questionnaire
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This questionnaire specifically looks at the GDPR and can be used to quickly find out how compliant your company is to the regulation.
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Third Party Information Security GDPR Questionnaire
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When you have reliance on at least one 3rd party for personal data processing, then this document can be shared with them, for them to complete and provide evidence of their compliance. As part of the GDPR, if you are controlling personal data, and sub-contract to a 3rd party for data processing, then you must be aware of their data protection capabilities.
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Data Privacy Impact Assessment for Business Functions
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This questionnaire is for internal projects or functions, in order to demonstrate GDPR compliance. The document is written in alignment to the GDPR articles and can be used, following the Gap Assessment, to cross-reference specific requirements and detail for remediation planning
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Scenario Exercise Data Breach
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Exercises should be run on a regular basis, and target specific key risks which have been identified as required for mitigation. This document will help you design, manage and report on data breach exercises
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Information Asset Register
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An analysis of where your personally identifiable data resides within your organisation
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Data Protection Policy
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This is an outline policy which can be adapted for any organisation
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Subject Access Request Policy
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This policy contains the detail which can be followed during a subject access request
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Data Flow Mapping Approach
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This shows how you should carry our data mapping
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Data Mapping Tool
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The data map will determine what personal data your organisation holds, where personal data resides within the organisations day-to-day business and where DPIAs may need to be performed
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Identity Proofing and Verification of an Individual
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In circumstances where Subject Access Requests or Data Subject Rights information is to be released, the identity of the data subject should be established, in accordance with recital 64 and article 12.6. This document explains how to identify an individual, assisting you with safeguarding the data and your reputation
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The IT Disaster Recovery Health Check
Every engagement begins with the IT Disaster Recovery Health Check. This is an assessment service which follows a risk-based approach for evaluating the effectiveness of your existing IT Disaster Recovery Plan and governance in terms of policies and procedures in place. This evaluation provides the foundation for all subsequent Disaster Recovery Planning work.
This initial stage reviews your overall IT Disaster Recovery programme and considers its relevance, comprehensiveness, and practicality by assessing the following critical areas:
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IT Disaster Recover policy
-
IT Application/Services Analysis approach
-
IT Disaster Recovery Strategies
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IT Disaster Recovery Testing
The structured Health Check, led by an experienced Disaster Recovery Analyst, delivers a clear picture of where improvements are needed, providing:
• A detailed assessment of your current Disaster Recovery Plan effectiveness.
• A clear outline of the proposed scope for your project.
• Detailed and customised information necessary to develop a strong business case for implementation.
Our IT Disaster Recovery Program is built on experience and incorporates a full lifecycle of services to strengthen your recovery capability. Our team of Disaster Recovery Consultants works from our base in Cheshire to ensure the solution is both technically sound and operationally achievable for clients across the UK.
Following the Health Check, our service includes:
• IT Disaster Recovery policy review and implementation: We will review your current policy and ensure it meets ISO-22301 standards.
• IT Application/Services Analysis: We will provide an analysis document, meet with your IT teams, and implement the analysis to map dependencies.
• IT Disaster Recovery Planning: We will provide an IT Disaster Recovery template and help your technical teams complete the new template to develop a robust Disaster Recovery Plan.
• IT Disaster Recovery Testing: We will document a detailed plausible simulation test and also document and lead real Disaster Recovery Testing with your IT teams. All test documentation, from initiation to lessons learned, will be meticulously documented.
By partnering with Westminster Business Continuity, your organisation gains the expertise of a dedicated Disaster Recovery Consultant to reduce downtime risk and preserve business integrity. For organisations across Cheshire and the UK, this partnership builds confidence that recovery processes will work precisely when needed.