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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

6 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

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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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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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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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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

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
I opened a case with technical support and the person who was assisting me was very helpful. I was able to resolve my...
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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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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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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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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Support -Security at a manufacturing company
Customer Service: Top notchTechnical Support: Top notch
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chuck Schurman
System Administrator at a construction company
I haven't used technical support.
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Liam Bartlett
IT & Installations Manager at Odyssey Gaming
I haven't contacted their technical support. If there are any issues then I get a network engineer guy first and see...
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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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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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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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Chris Bristow
Account Manager (Technical) at Redfortress Ltd
I've never used their technical support.
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JozefKacala
Sales engineer for EMEA region at OneClick
I have not used the support from GFI LanGuard.
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TUNC BOZOGLU
Owner at LOTUSCONCEPT
Technical support is good. They respond right away.
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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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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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Dominic Halajian
General Manager at a tech services company
We've never had to use their technical support.
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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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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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Cristian Concha
Chief of Technical Department at Ingenieria e Informática Asociada Ltda.
The technical support is good.
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Hugo Van Putten
Owner at Multi Level Software
The problems I've had with Kerio, when I wanted to change something, have always been solved by consulting the...
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ObaseunAwoyinfa
Security Consultant at Trinexia
For data protection, I have never really had to leverage support. I’ve not had to deal with support on any of the...
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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 International Media Investments
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator support has been helpful. However, sometimes when I raise the case they take a while to...
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MuhammadKhan1
Associate Manager IT at Hi-Tech Foods
My experience is very good with customer support. When I had an issue with the initial charges related to the setup,...
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Shrikant Pillay
Service Management Consultant at Tata Consultancy
I've never had an issue with McAfee. I've never had to reach out to technical support.
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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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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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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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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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Anonymous User
Technical Engineer at a tech services company
Technical products are bound to get stuck due to the technical processes involved. Sometimes, certain new issues crop...
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Anonymous User
Lead Cyber Security Consultant at a security firm
The most important thing is how they enable our team. They provide us with good support during the pre-sales stages.
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Stephen Odongo
Technical Support Engineer at Professional Technologies Kenya
The technical support is very good and they respond quite quickly.
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Anonymous User
Senior Manager of System Security
Customer Service: 8 out of 10Technical Support: 8 out of 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
IT Manager at a financial services firm
Technical support is good. They are timely in responding.
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Anonymous User
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor
McAfee's technical support is actually fine.
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RahulRaju
Security Specialist at Perth Airport
While there are bugs and a few functionality issues, it is just a matter of raising them with the support team....
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RajuBhatt
retired
I've never had to reach out to the support.
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Anonymous User
Network Engineer Info & Security at a comms service provider
Customer Service: It's ok. Technical Support: It's satisfactory; a few engineers from the McAfee Firewall tech...
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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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Joke
Security Analyst at a financial services firm
Technical support is okay. We get support from a McAfee partner here in Nigeria who liaises with the OEM too. We've...
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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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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,...
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Sabina C
Sr. IT Business Analyst at Citigroup
I didn't need to contact technical support for McAfee Total Protection.
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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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AdnanButt
Service Security Specialist
Technical support is good. We've been largely satisfied with them so far.
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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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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...
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Anonymous User
President - Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company
Customer Service: In my experience, the level of customer service is very good. Technical Support: Technical service...
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Anonymous User
IT Consultant at a tech consulting company
Customer Service: The McAfee customer service is great. As mentioned in my earlier review, this is a top 10 customer...
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