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Sample Customers

KerioControl

Triton Technical, McDonald's

Popular Solutions

KerioControl

10 reviews

GFI LanGuard

1 reviews

KerioConnect

5 reviews

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

12 reviews

McAfee Complete Data Protection

8 reviews

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

8 reviews

Top Industries

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Government

Educational Organization

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

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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Anonymous User
Senior Systems Tech/Admin at a computer software company
We use the solution as our mail server and host it for other domains for our clients.
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AlonHodir
CEO at Shalom Hartman Institute
The primary use case for us is for patch management.
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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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DavidJones7
Head of Content at Pharmaflow
At our organization, we use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator to automate security alerts and mitigate threats. Our company...
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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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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

Mark Spiteri
IT Manager at JB Metropolitan Distributors
I've never contacted technical support because I just call the people that I contract to fix things and if they're...
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David Schneiderlin
Co-Owner at Infowa
I have contacted the support team by email. The team's answers are good. They answer quickly.
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Constantnos Achilleos
Product manger at Asbis Mediteranean
I have never needed to contact customer support as the product is easy to use, allowing problems to be solved quickly...
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Saham Hendinejad
Chief Executive Officer at Quby
I've never contacted technical support in the past.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Alex Kimondo
ICT Manager at MEDS
Technical support is an area where I've always had problems because, especially in East Africa, there's a bit of a...
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Anonymous User
President at a tech services company
When GFI first took over, there were issues. There were issues contacting them. Even recently, there have been some...
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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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Cristian Concha
Chief of Technical Department at Ingenieria e Informática Asociada Ltda.
In general, I have not used it, except in version 9.2.5. The response was very good.
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TUNC BOZOGLU
Owner at LOTUSCONCEPT
Technical support is good. They respond right away.
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Anonymous User
Lead Hand - Print Department at a marketing services firm
The technical support is amazing. You receive a fast response after you create a ticket and the agent are very...
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AliAmini
IT Consultant at ArioRasaneh
I have not contacted technical support. When I have an issue I search the internet and solve the problem. When I...
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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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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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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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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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Anonymous User
IT Director at a comms service provider
The technical support is good.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jaroslav Jašek
IT manager at ABITec s.r.o.
My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding.
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Anonymous User
Head of Networks at a recruiting/HR firm
I would rate GFI's technical support a six out of 10. It's difficult to log a support ticket with them. You have to...
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Andy Dibble
IT Manager at Flare Technologies
Technical support is pretty good. They're quick to respond. You get an answer straight away, although it might not be...
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Kamal Abdelrahman
Country Manager at Magarah
In general the technical is average. Not great but not bad.
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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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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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Wahidur Rahman
Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited
I would rate the technical support of this solution a seven, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and...
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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.
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Meleria Mangaring
Solutions Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc
McAfee offers very good technical support and we have been very happy with its capabilities. We find support to be...
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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...
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Mohammed Badowi
IT system manager at NBO
McAfee Complete Data Protection has a good technical support team.
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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 »
Abel Abenemi
IT Lead\Network Security Analyst at Oiltest Services Limited
Technical support is perfect. If you send a request for help but resolve the issue yourself after a few hours, they...
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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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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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RajuBhatt
retired
I've never had to reach out to the support.
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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
Management Executive at a security firm
The support in South Africa could be much better.
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Anonymous User
Application Programmer (Infrastructure and OA support) at a government
We have raised support cases to McAfee and they responded in a professional and helpful manner and completed with...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
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] »
Anonymous User
Chief Information Security Officer at a venture capital & private equity firm
Their technical support is average.
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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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Anonymous User
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company
When we've had issues in the past, and, although they ended up solving our problem, we found the response time was...
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Jean-Luc Des Groseilliers
Owner at JLDG
I never had to use their support. For the last five years or so, I've not had any issues.
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Anonymous User
IT Security Specialist at a tech services company
Technical support is not too bad. They are quite mature and have experience with the product. We have not experienced...
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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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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 »
Saqer Aqra
Senior Cyber Security Consultant at Ingram Micro Inc.
We've contacted technical support in the past and in general, they are quite good.
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Anonymous User
Network Analyst at a financial services firm
Customer Service: Customer service is good. You will generally have access to a team of account managers, should...
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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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Daniel Colombani
Lead: Incident Response, Investigation & Vulnerability Management at a government
The technical support is great. When we put in a ticket, they respond in a few hours. If we put in that the server is...
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Gustavo Vila Verde
Sales Engineer at a tech vendor
Levels two and three of tech support is very good.
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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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