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Based on 136 reviews.

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April 2025

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Sample Customers

KerioControl

Triton Technical, McDonald's

Popular Solutions

KerioControl

7 reviews

GFI LanGuard

1 reviews

KerioConnect

5 reviews

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

8 reviews

McAfee Complete Data Protection

7 reviews

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

5 reviews

Top Industries

Computer Software Company

20%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Quotes From Member Reviews

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Most Helpful Reviews

Andy Dibble
IT Manager at Flare Technologies
Our main customer base is superyachts, and they have the Kerio for traffic rules and bandwidth management of the...
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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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LB5
Information Technology Specialista at REMING CONSULT a.s.
We use the solution for emails, calendars, and other collaboration tools. It is a self-serve application.
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AlonHodir
CEO at Shalom Hartman Institute
The primary use case for us is for patch management.
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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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VivekGupta7
DGM at a financial services firm
In the bank, there is a lot of confidential data. It is stored in various desktops and servers and over email also....
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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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PankajKumar24
IT Manager at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
The use cases for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ( /products/mcafee-epolicy-orchestrator-reviews ) involve deploying...
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Abel Abenemi
IT Lead\Network Security Analyst at Oiltest Services Limited
Our company uses the solution to provide clients with network protection. We use EPO 5.10 and endpoint 10.7 for...
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Customer Service

Timur Assembayev
Network Specialist at Wattum
I have not had the need to use the support from KerioControl because I have found all the answers to my questions...
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Saham Hendinejad
Chief Executive Officer at Quby
I've never contacted technical support in the past.
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Ashish-Gautam
Senior Technical Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
GFI's technical support is good.
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Ted Mbugua
Security Manager at CRAG
Technical support is always easy. Anytime we have an issue or we need clarification, there is a number to call or...
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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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Ted Mbugua
Security Manager at CRAG
The support from GFI LanGuard has been good.
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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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Herbert Haug
Systems Administrator at a tech company
We have a partner who does other work for us. They are also a Microsoft partner. If we need any support, we receive...
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Chuck Schurman
System Administrator at a construction company
I haven't used technical support.
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Anonymous User
Senior Network Administrator at a tech vendor
We use the technical support. The support is good for GFI and its products.
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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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Anonymous User
Systems Engineer & Product Manager at a tech services company
Customer Service: Positive, compared to industry competition. Technical Support: Very good and improving.
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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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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Support -Security at a manufacturing company
Customer Service: Top notchTechnical Support: Top notch
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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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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
Lead Hand - Print Department at a marketing services firm
Customer support is reliable. It provides fast and excellent support.
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Masoud Saedvand
Cisco Network Engineer at golrang
We do not have experience with customer service and support as we can't access them in Iran, so we search for our...
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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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Denis L
Sales Solutions Engineer at a tech services company
I am a distributor so I often will act as the support.
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Alex Kimondo
ICT Manager at MEDS
At the moment, there is no proper local support for Kerio Control here in Kenya. It is hard to get service or...
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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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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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LB5
Information Technology Specialista at REMING CONSULT a.s.
Support is free and is part of the license. We get support through the partners. They are quick and responsive.
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Matt Gerken
VP Engineering & Admin at E Cubed Systems Sl
I have not used the technical support. My experience initially with Kerio was dealing directly with Kerio and then at...
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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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Chris Kershner
CEO at Professional Project Managers
One of my customers had some issues that weren't pleasant. Support was pretty good and then it changed quite a bit...
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Anonymous User
Head of Technical - Systems and Security at a tech consulting company
The support has been responsive in my experience.
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Anonymous User
Director at a tech services company
We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance.
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MarcoVivaldelli
IT Director CEO at MARVIV SRLS
Their technical support is very good. We haven't had any problems with them.
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Lokesh Puthalapattu
Senior Marketing Specialist II at Harman International
When we raise a ticket with the support they respond based on the severity of the matter. I rate the support from...
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Harish G
IT Analyst at SISA Information Security
We do get support from our reseller. We don't get support directly from McAfee.
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Shreyansh Sharma
Instrument and Control Engineer at Reliance Industries Ltd
We have found the technical support to be very helpful. They are responsive and available when we need them to help...
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VivekGupta7
DGM at a financial services firm
Inspira provides both technical support and maintenance. They have a specialist, a special engineer, who handles it...
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Vincent Watti
Owner at Network Technics & Systems Ltd
McAfee's technical support is a bit of a letdown. Also, there's no good support within our region. The people who are...
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DavidJones7
Head of Content at Pharmaflow
Whenever an issue is raised by our company, the support team responds well and on time. The support team of McAfee...
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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 »
Anonymous User
Chief Information Security Officer at a venture capital & private equity firm
Their technical support is average.
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security at a tech services company
Technical support was good for what we needed. We just needed some support on the original install and set up, and we...
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AjitKumar
Technical Security Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
I am satisfied with the customer service/technical
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Anonymous User
Senior Developer, shareholder at a hospitality company
Customer Service: I've never approached customer service with regards to this particular product. Technical Support:...
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Sabina C
Sr. IT Business Analyst at Citigroup
I didn't need to contact technical support for McAfee Total Protection.
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
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...
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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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Anonymous User
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company
Customer Service: 5/10. Technical Support: 4/10.
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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
Sr. Product Management Specialist at a comms service provider
The technical support is good, but it could be better.
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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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Anonymous User
IT Manager at a financial services firm
Technical support is good. They are timely in responding.
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AmerAlkhawaldeh
Account manager
I got in touch with the support team for McAfee Complete Data Protection about certain cases such as enhancement...
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Anonymous User
Computer Technician at a leisure / travel company
We do not call McAfee directly because they couldn't provide us with the help we needed onsite because we needed...
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Mohit Dhingra
Senior Vice President IT at AS IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
The technical support's response time and turnaround time as the solution provider are excellent. They go the extra...
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JonathanChawatama
IT Security Consultant at ZOL Zimbabwe
McAfee technical support is ok, but we do not contact them very often. Every year, they impose certifications on us,...
Read full review of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator »
Ilan Amir
Global IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company
I'm working with a security company called Intensity. After doing my own PoC, and also checking an IBM solution, I...
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Ermal Galo
Information Security Officer at a financial services firm
We haven't required technical support in the last few years. Everything that has to be done, we have done it by...
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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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Anonymous User
Security Professional
Customer Service: We were a McAfee EMEA Premier Managed Service Provider at the time, so we had no problems getting...
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Anonymous User
Manager of BI at a tech services company
The technical support is good, but it's always "I'll call you back", especially when there are no threats. We usually...
Read full review of McAfee Web Protection [EOL] »
JonathanChawatama
IT Security Consultant at ZOL Zimbabwe
I'd rate technical support seven out of ten. Every year we have to go through product certifications, so we hardly...
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Anonymous User
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm
We had a local technical support company and did not deal with McAfee at the regional level. I can say that our local...
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