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Why Winchester

The local picture, written by people who actually live here.

Winchester is small for a cathedral city, around 45,000 people, but the working population is mostly professional: legal firms (it is the historic county town of Hampshire with all the local government overhead that brings), financial services firms, the University of Winchester, NHS and clinical-research employers, and a lot of independent professional services firms in the SO22 and SO23 postcodes.

Most Winchester clients have a specific compliance angle. FCA SYSC for the regulated finance firms. SRA expectations for the solicitors. ISO 27001 readiness for the ones chasing tender work. We map IT controls to whichever framework applies, rather than running a one-size-fits-all baseline. The Microsoft 365, SentinelOne and Entra ID setup is the same kit; we just configure it to fit your regulator.

Our Salisbury-based engineer covers Winchester on the ground, around 40 minutes via the A30 or the slightly longer M3 route. Same-day on-site response for SO21, SO22 and SO23 is the standard service. For larger projects (network rebuilds, multi-office migrations, on-premise upgrade days) the wider Coventry-based team travels down to support. Quarterly business reviews on Transform-tier are face-to-face on-site as standard.

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What we deliver

The full stack, one bill.

Managed IT, cyber security, modern workplace, networking and connectivity. One team, one invoice, one quarterly review where it all gets joined up.

Managed IT

UK helpdesk, 24/7 monitoring, patching, device management and Microsoft 365 administration.

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  • Every ticket triaged within 30 minutes
  • Patching and device management handled
  • Microsoft 365 administered properly
£40 per seat, per month

Cyber security

24/7 managed detection and response, with endpoint, email and identity protection.

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  • SentinelOne and Huntress, watched by analysts
  • Endpoint, email and identity covered
  • Cyber Essentials certified ourselves
24/7 human eyes on alerts

Microsoft 365 and cloud

Tenant build-out, migration, hardening and ongoing administration.

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  • Migrations run out of hours
  • Permissions and metadata preserved
  • Microsoft 365, Azure or Google Workspace
Rehearsed before the real cutover

Networking and connectivity

Business internet, SD-WAN, secure remote access and Wi-Fi designed from the floor plan up.

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  • Meraki and TP-Link Omada deployments
  • Business internet with real SLAs
  • Wi-Fi that holds up at the busiest hour
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Areas covered

Where we work across Winchester.

Postcodes

  • SO21
  • SO22
  • SO23

Districts and landmarks

  • Winchester city centre
  • Cathedral Close
  • University of Winchester
  • Royal Hampshire County Hospital
  • Winnall industrial estate
  • Hampshire County Council offices

Response window

Winchester sits inside our Salisbury-based engineer's same-day on-site radius via the A30. Routine on-site work is scheduled in advance, P1 emergencies are reached inside a couple of hours during the working day. Transform-tier clients have quarterly on-site business reviews built into the contract. The wider Coventry team also travels down for larger projects.

FAQ

Common questions from Winchester businesses.

We are a regulated finance firm in Winchester. Can you handle FCA SYSC?

Yes. Several of our existing clients are FCA-regulated. We configure controls to meet SYSC expectations (access control, data protection, operational resilience, third-party risk visibility, incident response). We are not a compliance officer or external auditor, but we provide the technical evidence and documentation your compliance team needs.

What about legal-sector security for SRA expectations?

Legal firms have specific data-handling obligations (Solicitors Regulation Authority Code of Conduct, plus lender panels asking for more cyber controls every year). Standard build includes MFA on all accounts, EDR not just AV, encrypted off-site backups, and a written incident response plan. We run the readiness work for Cyber Essentials Plus where lender panels are pushing for it.

Are you actually on-site capable in Winchester?

Yes. Our Salisbury-based engineer covers Winchester on the ground (around 40 minutes via the A30) for routine and emergency on-site work. The wider Coventry team comes down for larger projects. So you get a familiar face for the day-to-day plus a bigger team for the bigger jobs.

Do you support university-sector procurement?

Yes. We have experience with JISC and CPC framework procurement and direct-award processes used by universities and FE colleges.

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