IT support in Cottingham
Cottingham is around five miles north west of our Castle Street office, which puts it well inside the area we can reach quickly when something needs an engineer in the room.
Cottingham is one of the largest villages in England and has the business mix to match: professional practices, healthcare, independent retail and a lot of very small firms doing something specialised.
What nearly all of them have in common is that nobody there wants to think about IT, and most of them hold information that would cause real problems if it went missing.
That is a good fit for managed support. You get an IT department without employing one, and the boring things that prevent most incidents actually get done.
In and around Cottingham
Who we support
- Professional practices around King Street and Hallgate
- Healthcare and veterinary practices with patient data to protect
- Independent retail and hospitality in the village centre
- Small firms working with the university and the hospital
Local detail
What comes up in Cottingham
Practices with sensitive data
Cottingham has a concentration of healthcare, dental, veterinary and professional practices. All of them hold data that matters, and most of them have no IT person. Access control, backup and encryption are the three things we check first, because they are the three that turn a lost laptop into a reportable breach.
Working from converted premises
A lot of practices in the village operate from converted houses. Network cabling in that kind of building is usually a compromise somebody made years ago. It is worth looking at before you add more devices to it.
Close, but not city centre
Cottingham businesses often get quoted by providers based in Leeds or further, who price the travel in and then avoid coming. We are twenty minutes away and would rather come and look.
Start somewhere
Pick the one that fits
- Free
Microsoft 365 health check
A read-only check of your security, licences and backups, with a plain-English report and a walk-through call.
Find out more - Fixed price
Cyber Essentials
We check your setup against the five controls, fix what fails and get you through certification.
Find out more - Free baseline test
Staff phishing test
See how your team does against a realistic phishing email, then keep them sharp with short monthly training.
Find out more - Free review
Switching IT support
We handle the whole handover, including the awkward conversation with your current provider.
Find out more
IT support in Cottingham: common questions
We are a small practice with no IT person. Is that a problem?
No, it is most of our clients. We become the IT department, which includes making the decisions you should not have to make yourself.
We hold patient or client records. Can you help us keep them safe?
Yes. Access control, device encryption, tested backups and staff training cover most of the practical risk. Cyber Essentials is a sensible framework for pulling it together.
Do you support Apple as well as Windows?
Yes. Macs and iPads are managed alongside Windows machines.
Talk to us about IT support in Cottingham
Tell us what is going on and we will tell you what we would do about it. If we are not the right fit we will say so.
- Phone
- 01482 586 550
- Office
- 65 Castle Street
Hull
East Yorkshire
HU1 1SD - Opening hours
- Monday to Friday, 8.45am to 5.30pm
Send us a message
We will come back to you the same working day wherever we can.
Or call 01482 586 550 or email info@selectgroup.co.uk.
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