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Stay up to date with the latest in I.T.Cybersecurity Best Practices: Protecting Your Business from Online Threats
Picture this: a small business owner or staff member unknowingly clicks on an innocent-looking email attachment. Except, they’ve now inadvertently granted hackers access to sensitive employee and customer data, resulting in a major breach that can lead to financial...
Enhancing Employee Productivity with Technology Tools and Solutions
Customer support teams have traditionally used phone and email communications to help people with their questions and concerns. While they can be effective tools, they’re also time-consuming, prone to miscommunication, and challenging to track. Implementing something...
What are Some Benefits of Outsourcing IT Services?
In today’s digital world, there are few companies—big or small—that don’t rely on information technology (IT). But managing IT tasks in-house can be time-consuming and distract businesses from their core operations. Outsourcing IT services is often a leap of faith, as...
What Vulnerabilities Exist with Wi-fi
As a computer support provider, it’s our responsibility to keep our customers and clients up-to-date on the latest ways cyber attackers are trying to access their private information. For instance, have you seen the recent FBI warning about public USB charging...
How to Choose the Right IT Service Provider for Your Napa Business
Big or small, every Napa business wants to streamline workflows, protect employee and customer data, and improve customer satisfaction. Gaining a competitive advantage is always a goal, too, as is reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Today, all of this is...
How a Strong Employee Password Policy Protects Your Business
Which of these would you call the strongest password? callme call4me call2Cm3 If you chose #3, you’re right. Using strong, unique passwords is critical to protecting your business’s valuable data. It can help prevent hackers and other cyber-attackers from stealing...
How Can VPN Protect Your Computer
One of the easiest ways to create a secure environment for residential or commercial computer systems is with a VPN. As part of our computer support services, CEG can help you achieve online privacy and provide you peace of mind in an often uncertain digital world....
When to Refresh Your Computer
Did you know the estimated cost of keeping a business PC in operation longer than four years can cost your company nearly $3000 annually? One of our roles in providing business IT support is to recommend when a company should replace its computers. Like most...
Wondering if you external hard drive has an expiration date?
External hard drives are an essential tool for anyone who owns a computer. They offer near-immediate backup and storage for your digital data in a portable format that lets you take your documents, pictures, videos, app preferences, and programs with you wherever you...
What is Mobile Device Management
Mobile device management is a must for any organization that uses mobile devices for business purposes. Today, that typically includes just about any company. Digital tech advances like mobile and cloud services make it easier for employees to perform tasks remotely,...
Why is Information Technology Important
Information technology or IT consulting services are crucial to improving your business’s performance, scalability, and competitiveness. Yet, while many organizations comprehend the enormous role IT plays in the world, fewer understand how IT services, including...
What Does CEG Look for When We’re Evaluating a Winery for IT Services?
Today wineries use technology tools for everything from accounting processes and distribution to managing inventory and production. And like many companies that rely on technology to run and grow their businesses, wineries often lack the internal resources to handle...
What is a Server? (Not the Restaurant Type)
Data storage, website hosting, emails, and software all require a reliable server to function properly. But just what is a server, and are you sure yours is optimally performing? CEG offers affordable and effective business computer support services, including server...
How Often Should Your Business Update Its Equipment?
In our role as an IT consultant, we’re often asked if there’s a set schedule for businesses to update their equipment. While most IT equipment can function perfectly fine for five to ten years, updating it sooner ensures it has the processing power you need to run...
Who Can Benefit From IT Services?
Regardless of your business’s size or specialty, outsourcing its computer support keeps your network running smoothly and offers a faster, more reliable, and more affordable solution compared to building an in-house IT team. CEG provides business IT support that is...
Do You Know What Mobile Device Management is?
Most modern businesses employ a variety of mobile devices to access critical data and perform job tasks remotely. This has given them greater agility, mobility, and flexibility, but it’s also brought greater cybersecurity risks and increased device management...
What Services Does CEG in Napa Offer?
Not all Napa IT companies are alike. Computer Engineering Group (CEG) offers individuals and businesses technological services and computer support that are second to none. Our customers enjoy strategic IT-related assistance that includes business IT support, IT...
Business Services CEG Offers
Working with a third-party IT services provider brings a wealth of benefits to your business. Business IT support experts offer advice on the safest technologies to use and help your business identify vulnerabilities in your current system that could lead to a...