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Fortra's Tripwire Enterprise vs. KerioControl

November 2026

KerioControl vs. Fortra's Tripwire Enterprise

Updated: November 2026

Buyer's Guide

Fortra's Tripwire Enterprise vs. KerioControl

November 2026

Fortra's Tripwire Enterprise vs. KerioControl

Updated: November 2026

Sample Customers

Fortra's Tripwire Enterprise

1. Aetna 2. Adobe 3. ADP 4. Airbus 5. Amazon 6. American Express 7. Aon 8. ATT 9. Bank of America 10. Barclays 11. Baxter International 12. Bechtel 13. Boeing 14. Cisco Systems 15. CocaCola 16. Comcast 17. Dell 18. ETRADE 19. ExxonMobil 20. Ford Motor Company 21. General Electric 22. General Motors 23. Google 24. JPMorgan Chase 25. Kraft Foods 26. Lockheed Martin 27. McDonald's 28. Merck 29. Microsoft 30. Morgan Stanley 31. Nike 32. Oracle

KerioControl

Triton Technical, McDonald's

KerioConnect

Southern Tier Brewing Company, Innotta, Baustoff + Metall, Hamifleurs, Chanson TV, Ryman Stationery

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Top Industries

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12%

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13%

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11%

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Most Helpful Reviews

Anuj Bhagwat
Dev Ops Engineer at a computer software company
Our use case is sharing the file with multiple users. It's a centralized file share system.
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Mohamed Abdel-Hassanein
Co-Founder and Business Development at TeCrypt
The most important use case for my clients in Fortra's Digital Guardian is that it consolidates two products into a...
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Syed Mubeen
Cyber Security Researcher at a tech services company
The main use case for Digital Guardian is for endpoint DLP, as it is the product for endpoint-level DLP and is one of...
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Anonymous User
Information Technology Manager
I use Fortra's Automate to automate our workflows and reports mainly. For example, we normally task it to generate...
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company
I use it a lot for independent research. I have a copy with me on my Kali box. There’s a good reason that it’s...
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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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Customer Service

BahatiAsher Faith
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
Their support is excellent. You can raise a support ticket, and within four hours, you'll have a response. Because...
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Don Deyette
Systems Configuration Engineer/Move-it Administrator at a insurance company
HelpSystems has excellent service. I can call them up if I have a question and they'll either send me an example of...
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Omkar Singh
Cyber Security Analyst at digitaltrack solution pvt.ltd
The customer support of GoAnywhere MFT is exceptional.
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Stephen Whigham
Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx
Technical support has been pretty good. We've had some support directly through their chat service. I've had a couple...
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Brando Diego
System Engineer/Consultant at Notable Frontier Sdn Bhd
Sometimes, when I'm troubleshooting, I collaborate with the technical support.
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BrandoDiego
System Engineer/Consultant at Notable Frontier Sdn Bhd
Technical support from Fortra can vary; sometimes I encounter great engineers with high experience who can resolve...
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Akshay Pawale
System Administrator Cybersecurity at a computer software company
I have not had any partnership with customer service, and I received only a name, not a company name.
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Dhananjay Kumar
IT Developer at Espire
I rate the technical support for GoAnywhere MFT at 8.5 out of 10. The lower score is because I don't have access at...
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Niyajuddin Tiwale
Technique at Digitaltrack
My overall experience with customer support has been positive for GoAnywhere MFT. The support team representatives...
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Anuj Bhagwat
Dev Ops Engineer at a computer software company
I would rate the technical support for Fortra's Automate an eight or eight point five.
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Nilesh Jadhav
Cloud Engineer at ACC Ltd
In the initial stage, we contacted technical support for the initial setup and user onboarding processes. They have...
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Alejandro Parro Jr.
Presales Engineer - IT Automation at Bridgeway Communication System, Inc.
The technical support is good.
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Varun Mehra
collaboration support engineer at a retailer
In our experience with GoAnywhere MFT, customer support has been positive overall. The support team is knowledgeable,...
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AbhishekRajput
Senior Associate at a media company
We’ve used technical support in the past. They can take time to fix the problem, however. If it is an L1 and L2...
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Ibukun Shweta
DevOps Engineer at Teksphere Global Services Limited
In terms of customer support, I find them responsive and helpful. I would rate the customer support an 8 out of 10...
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Haider Khan
Senior Manager at Octotech Technology
The customer support for GoAnywhere MFT is good.
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Anonymous User
IT Manager at a transportation company
I've contacted customer support several times to restore licensing after rebuilding our server and recovering the...
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Aditya
Cyber Security Analyst at a tech vendor
Customer support for GoAnywhere MFT is excellent and relevant.
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company
We have contacted technical support in many cases and they are very good. The last time that we contacted them was...
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Alexey Supryaga
System Administrator at a retailer
Over three years of using the solution, we contacted technical support three or four times maximum. The most recent...
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Anonymous User
Consultant at a comms service provider
The support is really good, but the ticket system is not that good. When you open the ticket, that's the only time...
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Anonymous User
FI Technical Lead at a university
If I had to rate the support, I would rate it as an eight on a scale from one to ten. I haven't dealt with them...
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Larry Putman
Systems Analyst at a healthcare company
We've worked with HelpSystems support, and it has always been excellent. I rate their support 10 out of 10. They...
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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Engineer at a tech vendor
Their technical support is nice. I am satisfied with them.
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Anonymous User
Senior Manager at a consultancy
So far, I am really happy with the technical support. The delay is between one and two days. In all of our requests...
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Anonymous User
Consultant at a manufacturing company
I've contacted them. They were very helpful. I'd rate them a ten out of ten.
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Anonymous User
Manager Managed File Transfer at a tech services company
When it comes to technical support, I would give it a rating of three. The technical support is slow to respond and...
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Anonymous User
Managing Director at a tech vendor
I have not been in contact with technical support.
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security Analyst at a tech vendor
Customer support for GoAnywhere MFT is generally good but a bit mixed depending on urgency. From our experience, the...
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Anonymous User
Chief Administrative Officer at rpa total centroamerica
Technical support is a bit of an issue. We have our technical support team from Argentina. We can't even speak the...
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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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Ted Mbugua
Security Manager at a tech services company
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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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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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 a tech services company
The support from GFI LanGuard has been good.
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Dedi-Husni
Cybersecurity Lead at PT. Alpha Citra Siber Indonesia
The technical support from KerioControl is very helpful. I would rate technical support a nine out of ten.
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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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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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Kombo Nyashanu
MD at Comsque
The support is fine. The response time can improve.
Read full review of KerioControl »
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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Read full review of KerioControl »
TUNC BOZOGLU
Owner at LOTUSCONCEPT
Technical support is good. They respond right away.
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Marek Jaworski
Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider
Our experience with their tech support started off well. Then, a couple of their employees went wayward, but they got...
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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...
Read full review of KerioControl »
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...
Read full review of KerioControl »
Arie De Kruijf
EMP Specialist at Global EPM BV
GFI's technical support is way too slow in terms of response times. Their knowledge is okay. They should know their...
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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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Anonymous User
System Administrator Team Lead | Developer at a tech services company
It's been a while since we contacted support, but back when we did it was pretty hard to get a hold of someone. We...
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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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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.
Read full review of KerioControl »
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...
Read full review of GFI FaxMaker »
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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Dominic Halajian
General Manager at a tech services company
We've never had to use their technical support.
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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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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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