It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good.

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McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user221859

Network Engineer Info & Security at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Mar 31, 2015

The hardware is not stable and we have faced many stability issues.

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it_user222795

Senior Developer, shareholder at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

Apr 14, 2015

HA configuration is a bit difficult for the first time.

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it_user223881

Network Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 12, 2015

Migrating from v7 to v8 of McAfee Firewall Enterprise, in many cases, involves you having to completely re-write all of your previous McAfee Firewall Enterprise v7 policies due to the difference in the way the interfaces are named in the product going from v7 to v8.

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Gustavo Vila Verde

Sales Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 6, 2015

Administration of the firewall is a little confusing for end users.

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reviewer999975

Computer Technician at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 14, 2019

Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on.

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