IT support in Barnet for businesses

Barnet is a borough of high streets rather than industrial estates. It runs from Chipping Barnet on the Hertfordshire border down the A1000 through Whetstone, North Finchley and East Finchley, and down the Edgware Road side through Edgware, Colindale, Hendon and Golders Green, with Mill Hill and the A1 in between. Along those roads the work is professional and personal services: accountants, solicitors, financial advisers and mortgage brokers, estate and lettings agents, dental, medical and physiotherapy practices, private clinics, recruitment firms, charities and property managers. Most are 5 to 60 people, in offices above shops on Whetstone High Road and around Tally Ho corner, or in converted period houses and older office buildings along Ballards Lane in Finchley Central, many of them cabled for a different decade.

There are bigger concentrations too. North London Business Park, off Oakleigh Road South in New Southgate, is a campus of office buildings set apart from the high streets. At the southern end of the borough, Brent Cross Town is turning land around the shopping centre and the new Brent Cross West Thameslink station into a district of offices, homes and parks, built in phases. Colindale has been rebuilt around the former Hendon aerodrome, where the RAF Museum still sits, and Hendon has Middlesex University's campus on The Burroughs. Trade counters and light industrial units along the Edgware Road add a different kind of customer. Firms moving into new space here need connectivity ordered early, cabling and Wi-Fi designed before the ceilings close, and a firewall and phones working on day one; the details are on our page for new office IT setup.

Barnet's practices are hybrid almost by default. Staff commute on the High Barnet and Edgware branches of the Northern line, or on Thameslink from Mill Hill Broadway and Hendon, and work from home for part of the week. That puts the weight on identity and devices: Microsoft 365 with MFA and conditional access, managed laptops with EDR, email security against the payment-diversion fraud that targets conveyancing, lettings and accounts teams, SharePoint and Teams set up so files live in one place, and backups that include Microsoft 365. Clients, insurers and lenders send security questionnaires more often each year, and we prepare firms for Cyber Essentials and document the controls so the answers are true. In the older buildings the problems are physical: Wi-Fi that fades two rooms from the router, a comms cupboard under the stairs, and broadband that depends on the cabinet. We survey and fix those with UniFi or Cisco Meraki and proper cabling.

We should be straight about the geography. Dig IT has no office in Barnet. The business started in Enfield, the neighbouring borough, in July 2001, traded from Hertford Road until the move to Datum House in Hoddesdon in 2017, and kept the 020 8482 4020 Enfield landline. From Hoddesdon, Chipping Barnet and Whetstone are about 30 to 40 minutes via the A10 and the M25 to junction 23 or 24, and Finchley, Hendon, Mill Hill and Edgware around 40 to 55 minutes depending on the M25 and the North Circular. Support is remote-first through Splashtop and our monitoring agents, so most tickets close on the first call. When a fault needs hands on site we schedule a visit, or come the same day where we can, and installations are booked as project days. For the borough next door see IT support in Enfield, and for the wider area see IT support in North London.