For regulated practices
Legal, dental, medical and accountancy firms hold data that has to be protected and accounted for. We build around that obligation.
- UK GDPR support £13/user/mo
- Access control & audit trails
- SIEM & log retention
IT support in Ilford
Professional practices, clinics and independent firms across IG1–IG6, supported by a team a few miles down the road rather than a call centre.
Ilford runs on professional services, and on data
Ilford has one of the densest concentrations of small professional firms in East London. Solicitors, accountants, dental and medical practices, estate agents, recruiters and independent clinics cluster around the High Road, The Exchange, Cranbrook Road and out towards Gants Hill and Barkingside.
Those businesses have a particular IT profile. They are small, often under twenty people, but they hold significant volumes of client and patient data, which puts them squarely inside UK GDPR obligations and, increasingly, inside their clients' and insurers' due-diligence questions. A solicitor's practice cannot shrug at a ransomware incident the way a retailer might; the data is the business.
So the emphasis here is different from an industrial estate. Backup that has actually been restored from, email security that stops invoice fraud and client impersonation, access control that survives someone leaving, and evidence you can hand to a client who asks how their information is protected.
Email fraud protection
Invoice redirection and client impersonation are the attacks that actually hit professional firms in this area.
- Anti-phishing & impersonation
- Attachment sandboxing
- Staff awareness training
Backup you can prove
Tested restores and a written recovery plan. That is the difference between having backups and being able to rely on them.
- Managed backup from £77/user
- Scheduled test restores
- Annual DR rehearsal
Microsoft 365 done properly
Multi-factor authentication, sensible sharing defaults and a clean joiner/leaver process, not just mailboxes in the cloud.
- Migration £77 per mailbox
- MFA & conditional access
- Licence cost review
How we cover Ilford
We work from Dagenham, roughly four miles south-east of Ilford town centre, so on-site visits across IG1 to IG6 are routine rather than an expedition. Ilford station has been on the Elizabeth line since 2022, and Gants Hill, Newbury Park and Barkingside sit on the Central line, so we can reach most of the borough by rail when the job does not call for a van.
Redbridge has a genuinely diverse business community, and our team speaks English and Romanian. For an owner-managed firm where English is a second language, being able to have a technical conversation without translating it twice is not a small thing.
What we do for Ilford businesses
Talk to us about Ilford
Alpha IT Solutions Ltd
Tallow Close, Dagenham, London, RM9 6EF
Phone: 020 3411 1886
Email: info@alphaitsolutions.uk
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm
Tell us what you are running and we will come back within one business day with a free, no-obligation IT health check. Our full rate card is on the pricing page. We publish it so you can rule us in or out before you pick up the phone.
Frequently asked questions
Do you cover the whole of Redbridge?+
Yes. IG1 through IG6, including Ilford town centre, Gants Hill, Barkingside, Seven Kings, Goodmayes and Newbury Park. We are based in Dagenham, roughly four miles away.
We are a solicitors' practice. Can you handle our compliance obligations?+
We handle the technical side: access control, encryption, backup, logging and the evidence trail. UK GDPR support is £13 per user per month. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice on your obligations, but we make sure the systems can support them.
What is the most common attack you see on firms like ours?+
Invoice redirection and email impersonation. An attacker gets into or spoofs an email thread and changes bank details on a payment. It is why email security and staff training are in our Professional tier rather than an optional extra.
Can you support a practice with only ten staff?+
Yes. There is no minimum spend, so ten users on the Essential or Professional tier is a normal size for us.
Do you speak languages other than English?+
Yes. Our team covers English and Romanian, which is genuinely useful across Redbridge's business community.
Can you help us answer a client's IT security questionnaire?+
Yes, and it comes up often for firms in Ilford. Cyber Essentials certification (£99 per month managed) usually answers most of the questionnaire in one line.
Other areas we cover
IT support in Ilford, done properly
Free, no-obligation IT health check. We'll tell you what's actually wrong and what it costs to fix.