Compare McAfee vs WatchGuard

McAfee

Based on 142 reviews.

WatchGuard

Based on 216 reviews.

Sample Customers

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

Kleberg Bank

McAfee Application Control

Contec

WatchGuard Firebox

Ellips, Diecutstickers.com, Clarke Energy, NCR, Wrest Park, Homeslice Pizza, Fortessa Tableware Solutions, The Phoenix Residence

Popular Solutions

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

5 reviews

McAfee Complete Data Protection

5 reviews

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

2 reviews

WatchGuard Firebox

23 reviews

WatchGuard EPDR

12 reviews

WatchGuard XTM [EOL]

0 reviews

Top Industries

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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

Binu Haneef
System Administrator at a media company
We are using many components such as Drive Encryption, DLP, Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, and Web...
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Wahidur Rahman
Senior Executive Officer at a financial services firm
Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority...
Read full review of McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] »
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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Anonymous User
Information Security Analyst at a real estate/law firm
My major use case for McAfee Complete Data Protection is for DLP. McAfee Complete Data Protection helps to prevent...
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Kalidas Mangle
Sr. System Engineer at a tech vendor
We are working with McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention and Trellix products in our environment, but not...
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Michael-Foster
Head of IT at a hospitality company
We use ThreatSync+ NDR for both network monitoring and detection and response.
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Pedro Soteras
CEO at a government
WatchGuard Firebox is configured as a perimetral firewall across all our locations. We have two sites that are...
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Norlia Jalani
Section Head, Information Technology at a transportation company
We are using endpoint solutions such as Panda Adaptive Defense 360, but currently we are using Panda. We are using it...
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Anonymous User
IT System Support Administrator at a non-profit
We use WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi because we have used different tools as well, like Ubiquiti. The complexity of...
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Customer Service

Muco Aga
Cloud Security Solutions Consultant at a tech consulting company
We did not directly reach out to McAfee, the corporation, in terms of support. We can get help from their partners....
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ObaseunAwoyinfa
Security Consultant at a consumer goods company
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 a computer software company
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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BharatUjenia
Sr. Group Manager - Enterprise IT at a tech vendor
The technical support is a mixed bag. They don't always like to believe that there is a problem with the solution....
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Kirolos Labeb
CyberSecurity Operations at a tech services company
They are good and give quick responses. I rate it ten out of ten.
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VivekGupta7
DGM at a financial services firm
While they are knowledgeable, they are not very easily accessible. We need to book a call. Often, we'll first get...
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Victor Akidiva
CEO at a tech services company
There are instances where McAfee interferes with business applications. So, in those cases, we require an...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Anatolii Konstantynov
Project Engineer at a tech services company
When contacting support, we would have to wait days before getting a response, and other times they were not able to...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Anonymous User
Network Architect at a tech services company
I've never dealt with technical support in the past. I can't speak to how knowledgeable or responsive they are. I've...
Read full review of McAfee Web Protection [EOL] »
Roi Nahari
CTO- Consulting Services at a tech services company
The support needs some improvement. It needs to be more professional.
Read full review of Sentrigo Hedgehog [EOL] »
Abel Abenemi
IT Lead\Network Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company
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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Amman Khan Mohammed
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company
I have opened a few cases with technical support and their support is good. It depends on what type of contract you...
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Sanjit Achary
Senior Manager at a tech services company
We've been in touch with technical support in the past. They've been quite good. We've been satisfied with their...
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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
Senior Developer, shareholder at a hospitality company
Customer Service: I've never approached customer service with regards to this particular product. Technical Support:...
Read full review of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] »
Anonymous User
Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company
The technical support is pretty poor.
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Anonymous User
Information Technology Security Consultant at a computer software company
I have not personally contacted technical support but I have gotten feedback from people who have. Most people are...
Read full review of McAfee Web Protection [EOL] »
Anonymous User
Management Executive at a security firm
The support in South Africa could be much better.
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
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...
Read full review of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] »
Abel Abenemi
IT Lead\Network Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company
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
IT Manager at a financial services firm
Technical support is good. They are timely in responding.
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Mohit Dhingra
Senior Vice President IT at a tech services company
The technical support's response time and turnaround time as the solution provider are excellent. They go the extra...
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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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RajuBhatt
retired
I've never had to reach out to the support.
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Anonymous User
System Engineer at a tech services company
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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Anonymous User
Chief Information Security Officer at a venture capital & private equity firm
Their technical support is average.
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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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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
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor
McAfee's technical support is actually fine.
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Pankaj Nagpal
Chief Information Security Officer at a healthcare company
Technical support has not been helpful for us. We tried to reach out during the implementation process and were given...
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Katyan Roach
Network Administrator at a government
We have had a good experience with customer service and support.
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Syed Pasha
Senior Network Consultant at a tech services company
My experience with WatchGuard's technical support has been that it was hard to get them on the call initially....
Read full review of WatchGuard Firebox »
Arkadiusz Charuba
IT Specialist/Admin at a legal firm
I've never directly reached out to technical support.
Read full review of WatchGuard Firebox »
Juan Ramón López Ruiz
IT Managing Partner at a consultancy
The technical support is not good because they must receive many emails and information. Also, the response is not good.
Read full review of WatchGuard EPDR »
Rui Barbosa
Director of Production & Support Engineering at a tech services company
Whenever I need support for WatchGuard Application Control, I'm able to get it from the vendor.
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ScottEastman
Project Consultant at a healthcare company
Technical support is good. They are helpful and responsive.
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Anonymous User
Network Admin at a manufacturing company
Their support is awesome. I get a solution to my problem within 24 hours, and if they don't have a solution within 24...
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Akhtarul Islam
CEO at a tech services company
The technical support is fine.
Read full review of WatchGuard XTM [EOL] »
Abdul Malik Mohammed
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company
Regarding technical support, they could use more engineers. There is less support from engineers and they give you...
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Anonymous User
IT Manager at a financial services firm
The level of support from WatchGuard is not as good as what we get from Cisco and other vendors. The response time is...
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Anonymous User
Manager
We get good support. It can take a bit longer only in the case of a specific problem that even they are not aware of,...
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Dirk Emmermacher
Network Administrator at a consultancy
WatchGuard's support is very good. Over the years, there have been only one or two tickets that were not solved. When...
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Mourad Aissi
Director of Information Systems at a hospitality company
The support could improve. I had to deal with support to give me new hardware and it took four weeks.
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Joseph Redmond
Woodworker
I would rate their technical support very highly. They are very knowledgeable.
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Steve Rubin
President and Owner at a comms service provider
Our partner has used their support. It's really good support. If they don't answer immediately, they get back to you...
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Roman Laminin
Technical Consultant at a tech services company
The technical support is very good. I know only of one company whose tech support is better than WatchGuard's.
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John Giacco
Network Administrator
I haven't used WatchGuard's technical support because it is an easy product to use.
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Joseph Jansen
IT Specialist at a recreational facilities/services company
Tech support is everything for any product. WatchGuard's technical support is up there at eight or nine out of ten....
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Anonymous User
IT Security & Data Protection Manager at a healthcare company
The support from Panda Security Adaptive Defense could improve. They are not the most efficient. I rate the support a...
Read full review of WatchGuard EPDR »
Gevorg Harutyunyan
Software Developer, Head of IT Department at a tech vendor
The technical support is very bad. The price is very high, the response time is very long, and technical support does...
Read full review of WatchGuard XTM [EOL] »
Anonymous User
Network Administrator at a university
Customer Service: Satisfactory to good. Technical Support: The technical team, so far with WatchGuard OEM has been...
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Anonymous User
Ingénieur - Traitement des eaux /Mécanique de procédé at a pharma/biotech company
I didn't have to call the WatchGuard Firebox technical support team, but the support on the website is a six out of ten.
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Anonymous User
Deputy Head of IT Department at a financial services firm
Customer Service: The customer service from my vendor was very good. I would give them a rating of 9/10. Technical...
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Anonymous User
IT Technician at a real estate/law firm
Their support is excellent.
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Rick Phillips
IT Manager at a real estate/law firm
Tech support has been good. It's gotten a lot better the past few years; it's very much improved. Twelve years ago it...
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Anonymous User
Director at a tech services company
We've dealt with support and they've been good overall.
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AllenHillstrom
IT Manager at a performing arts
We don't work directly with Cisco tech support. We work with a third-party company to handle support that we can't...
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Thomas Zhang
IT Director at a financial services firm
7/10
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Anonymous User
Partner & Head of IT Strategy at a computer software company
I haven't interacted with them myself, but my colleagues state that their support line is good.
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FelixCheung
IT Director at a manufacturing company
We haven't had any issues so we haven't contacted their technical support. It's been quite stable over the year since...
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