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Sample Customers

KerioControl

Triton Technical, McDonald's

Popular Solutions

KerioControl

2 reviews

GFI LanGuard

1 reviews

KerioConnect

1 reviews

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

2 reviews

McAfee Complete Data Protection

3 reviews

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

2 reviews

Top Industries

Outsourcing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

18%

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

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Most Helpful Reviews

Constantnos Achilleos
Product manger at Asbis Mediteranean
The solution is used for site-to-site VPN connections and it is valued for its cost efficiency and easy connectivity....
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Marcelino Mongcal
Senior Systems Tech/Admin at Samco Software Inc.
Small medium-sized businesses are our primary focus, particularly in warehouse distribution and retail sectors. We...
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Thanu Kishore
Technical Executive at Satcom Infotech
My experience with GFI LanGuard involves patch management where, whenever we visit customers, they request patches...
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Marek Jaworski
Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider
As a company dealing in satellite technology, we use it for small to big satellite links, and for some remote islands...
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Michael Livingston
IT Director at Thomas George Associates Ltd
We use it for sending outgoing faxes.
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Wahidur Rahman
Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited
Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority...
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VivekGupta7
DGM at a financial services firm
McAfee Web Protection is for our entire system, regardless of the brand. It is implemented in all systems through an...
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Chetankumar Savalagimath
Delivery Manager at a tech services company
Presently, I am using the Threat Intel solution for reputation checks in our daily SOC operations and threat hunting....
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Anonymous User
Information Security Analyst at a real estate/law firm
My major use case for McAfee Complete Data Protection is for DLP. McAfee Complete Data Protection helps to prevent...
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Kalidas Mangle
Sr. System Engineer at Zensar Technologies
We are working with McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention and Trellix products in our environment, but not...
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Customer Service

Anuradha Buluwala
Head of Technical at Connex Information Technologies Pvt Ltd
The support has been responsive in my experience.
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Gilbert Mwiinga
Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College
We've been talking to them about the content filtering issue. The ticket was escalated, but we had to wait for two...
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RobertWright
Computer Technician at a tech services company
The technical support used to be great. However, it's gone way downhill. I used to speak directly to the person...
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Marcelino Mongcal
Senior Systems Tech/Admin at Samco Software Inc.
I rarely encounter problems, but when I do, I post a support ticket on the website and they reply very quickly.
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Justin Braegelman
IT Support at Rural Computer Consultants, Inc
The GFI technical support can be very time-consuming to get down to the root of the problem, but they are very...
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Anonymous User
IT Infrastucture - Cloud Admin at Primary S.A.
Here in Argentina they are terrible, as they will not answer emails and will not reurn the phone calls. Otherwise...
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Ralf Werner
IT Professional / Team Leader at Aos Stahl GmbH und Co Kg
I haven't had to use GFI's technical support for FaxMaker.
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Owenmpk
IT Support Professional at Valley IT Support, Inc
The technical support was very good originally but fell short when GFI took over. It is now getting better.
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AliKia
Research And Development Manager at MFP
I don't use technical support because KerioControl is very easy to use.
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Daniel Mahar
Associate Director at a university
GFI's technical support for this solution could be better. It's hard to find information about Exinda, directly. It...
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Cristian Concha
Chief of Technical Department at a tech services company
The technical support is good.
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Chris Bristow
Account Manager (Technical) at Redfortress Ltd
I've never used their technical support.
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Mohammad_Zarbalizadeh
Telecommunications Engineer at FARNAIT
I do not use the technical support from Kerio Control. When I have an issue I find the solution by searching the...
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Anonymous User
Lead Hand - Print Department at a marketing services firm
Customer support is reliable. It provides fast and excellent support.
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MarkKupferberg
Vice President at a manufacturing company
I don't deal with technical support directly. However, I would say my IT person puts it somewhere in the middle. My...
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Jay Greiner
Head of IT at Glorious Way Church
I've only had to use technical support once and it was on a VPN. They updated the VPN protocol and I had a question...
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Anonymous User
IT at a insurance company
We have contacted technical support only once, and I rate them a seven out of ten. However, they were unable to solve...
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Axel Wittich
Manager of IT and Operations at B E S T Fluidsysteme GmbH
We used the technical support once last week, and it was good. We got what we wanted.
Read full review of GFI FaxMaker »
Robert Allino
Owner at L3GNL LLC
I haven't used GFI, but back when Kerio had it, they were very good. They were very responsive. A lot of times you...
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Greg Regester
ICT Consultant at D-R Consulting Pty Ltd
I found the technical support pretty good. They are very responsive and come back with an answer on things pretty...
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Eugene Hacker
Director of Network Services at a university
I talked to them before about the issue of data not being available. They talked me through going in and just...
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Michael Livingston
IT Director at Thomas George Associates Ltd
I don't recall ever having to use their technical support.
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Anonymous User
Senior Sales Technician at a tech services company
I have never used their technical support.
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Marcelino Mongcal
Senior Systems Tech/Admin at Samco Software Inc.
The technical support is good as a reseller. We have direct connection with the technical support, we can send them...
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Bryant Dawson
Network Engineer at a marketing services firm
Customer Service: I never called them. Technical Support: I never called them.
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Anonymous User
Owner at a consultancy
The GFI technical support is average. The speed of response sometimes is not very fast. Sometimes they take a while...
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LB5
Information Technology Specialista at REMING CONSULT a.s.
Resellers provide the first level of support. After that, support is handled by distributors. The next level of...
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AlonHodir
CEO at Shalom Hartman Institute
I had only about two occasions when I needed to contact GFI customer support and they were very helpful and quick.
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Frank Raasveld
Owner at Fr@nkonnections
In every software, sometimes there are problems. One of the strong things about Kerio was the support knowledge and...
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Cristian Concha
Chief of Technical Department at a tech services company
In general, I have not used it, except in version 9.2.5. The response was very good.
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Victor Akidiva
CEO at Semper Systemis Ltd
There are instances where McAfee interferes with business applications. So, in those cases, we require an...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Muco Aga
Cloud Security Solutions Consultant at CloudCan
We did not directly reach out to McAfee, the corporation, in terms of support. We can get help from their partners....
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Irshad Kazi
Lead Technical Consultant at ITC Infotech
I would rate tech support a five out of ten. When our company is in the process of resolving patching issues, and on...
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Binu Haneef
System Administrator at Sky News Arabia
The technical support from McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator was very good with technically efficient professionals...
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Vivek Sathaye
Director at Benelec
The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention could improve.
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BharatUjenia
Sr. Group Manager - Enterprise IT at WNS Global Services
The technical support is a mixed bag. They don't always like to believe that there is a problem with the solution....
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Vincent Watti
Owner at Network Technics & Systems Ltd
The support is good. We've interacted with them directly a few times.
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Jagdish Lomte
Founder & CEO at StreaMplify
The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is good. However, if they provided 24 hours a day...
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Arkadiy Malamud
Antivirus Support Team Lead at a insurance company
Customer Service: GoodTechnical Support: Good. However there is no definite SLA when a complicate issue is escalated...
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Anonymous User
Technical Engineer at a tech services company
I had some technical issues, which were not known by the vendor itself.
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RajuBhatt
retired
I've never had to reach out to the support.
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Anatolii Konstantynov
Project Engineer at ISSP
When contacting support, we would have to wait days before getting a response, and other times they were not able to...
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security Engineer at a security firm
We've never escalated any issues to technical support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they would be.
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Sambhaji Bhosale
Cyber security consultant at a tech vendor
The technical support has been excellent with no reported issues.
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Anonymous User
Business Analyst at a consultancy
Another person is responsible for dealing with technical support, so I do not have experience with them.
Read full review of McAfee Web Protection [EOL] »
Obaseun Awoyinfa
Security Consultant at CS Africa
To be honest, I have actually never really needed to call support overall. The product has been working all these...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Anonymous User
Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company
The technical support is pretty poor.
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Gustavo Vila Verde
Sales Engineer at a tech vendor
Levels two and three of tech support is very good.
Read full review of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] »
Abel Abenemi
IT Lead\Network Security Analyst at Oiltest Services Limited
McAfee has very good support. We can submit a report online to open a case and they will contact you immediately to...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Anonymous User
System Engineer at Inbox Business Technologies
Their support is really good. I would rate it a nine out of ten. I have never any issues with their support. They...
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DucDoan
Security Manager at a tech services company
For the most part, technical support has been great. When we've had technical problems, they've helped us. I've found...
Read full review of McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] »
Anonymous User
Service Management Consultant at Tata Consultancy
I've never had an issue with McAfee. I've never had to reach out to technical support.
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Pankaj Nagpal
Chief Information Security Officer at Romsons
Technical support has not been helpful for us. We tried to reach out during the implementation process and were given...
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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Team Lead at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
The technical support is good. It's easy for us to reach support whenever we experience any issues. They put us right...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Eduardo Jassir
Cyber Security Coordinator at Gecelca SA E.S.P.
We receive technical support from the partner, and they are very good. We've never had to contact McAfee. We just...
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Anonymous User
Information System Security Coordinator at a comms service provider
I'm happy with the technical support.
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Yash Rana
Manager IT at OTE
The technical support of McAfee is good and that is why we use McAfee products. The support and protection is very...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Altaf Siddiqui
Network Engineer at IBoss Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd
The solution's customer support team's response time is good. We raise the ticket on a support portal and communicate...
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Amman Khan Mohammed
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company
I have opened a few cases with technical support and their support is good. It depends on what type of contract you...
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Anonymous User
Managing Director at a consultancy
Technical support is handled via our partner. They helped us implement and manage the solution. We go through them...
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