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Sample Customers

Sonatype Repository Firewall

EDF, Tomitribe, Crosskey, Blackboard, Travel audience

Sonatype Lifecycle

Genome.One, Blackboard, Crediterform, Crosskey, Intuit, Progress Software, Qualys, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Popular Solutions

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Sonatype Nexus Repository

3 reviews

Sonatype Repository Firewall

1 reviews

Top Industries

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Most Helpful Reviews

Shritam Bhowmick
Vulnerability Management Lead at garrett
Our main use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec is to perform internal assessment of applications and external facing...
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Mani Bommisetty
Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company
I use Rapid7 Metasploit primarily for scanning within my environment.
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ChennaRao Vemula
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at a educational organization
We have been using it for almost four years. We are one of the top first customers who implemented it. It's a cloud...
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Asim Naeem
Principal IT Security & Compliance at IBEX Holdings Ltd
I am using Rapid7 InsightIDR as an InsightIDR solution. This tool is integrated with other solutions like endpoint...
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FurqanLatif
Senior Manager - Pre-Sales at Trillium Information Security Systems
The main use case is the vulnerability assessment of their assets. Assets include Windows or Linux platforms. This is...
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CuneytGurses
DevOps Engineer at Sonne Technology, Inc.
Our primary tool is Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager. We use it for NPM, Maven, and Docker repositories....
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Goutham Kumar
Principal DevSecOPs at a computer software company
We use Sonatype Lifecycle for scanning our SCA product, software composition analysis. It is a category of product we...
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Jay-Kim
CEO at VIVANS
Many companies, including ours, use Nexus Repository due to concerns about malware and critical vulnerabilities....
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AbhilashJain
DevOps engineer at a tech vendor
Whenever we have builds, we upload our builds or artifacts to Sonatype Container (...
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Customer Service

ChennaRao Vemula
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at a educational organization
They have excellent support with internal Slack channels and are directly reachable through Teams. Their assistance...
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Andrei Bigdan
Executive Manager at B2B-Solutions LLC
Rapid7's technical support is highly responsive and helpful. I would rate them as a nine out of ten.
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AdeelAgha
Team Lead - Cyber Security & Compliance at Al Tuwairqi Group
We raised some tickets concerning the system features, as they have some bugs or technical issues. This was done by...
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Agustinus DWIJOKO
Network & Security Engineer at PT. Centrin Online Prima
For InsightVM the technical support from Rapid7 has been good. If we create a ticket, we get feedback. But right now,...
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Andrei Bigdan
Executive Manager at B2B-Solutions LLC
We have a well-trained employee and access to distributors, so we've never dealt with technical support directly.
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Gerard Konan
Founder & CEO at AGILLY
Rapid7 InsightIDR's technical support is reactive and supportive. However, they only speak English. Our native...
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Md. Shahriar Hussain
Information Security Analyst at Banglalink
The solution's technical support is very poor. Their responses are delayed and don't meet the timelines.
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Anonymous User
Product Manager at a tech services company
Rapid7 InsightIDR's technical support is great and very responsive. Of course, their support depends on the SLAs.
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Enrique Santiatiagogo
Owner at Sidif Del Caribe Corporation
Their technical support is very good.
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Anonymous User
Information Security Senior Expert (Founding member, African Cybersecurity Center) at a financial services firm
Technical support is good and responsive.
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RussellBurrows
Senior IT Security Specialist at KNIPPERX INC.
The nice thing about MDR is that we have a number to call. If there's something major or risky, we have a telephone...
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Roy Jones
Cloud Architect at SofLabTech
It wasn't good, but the response was fast. The response was "we don't know, and we'll put this to the development...
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Ryan Witt
IT Security Architect at a government
The technical support have been a pleasure to work with.
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Nanda-Kumar
Security Team Lead at a tech services company
I have not interacted with tech support.
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Anonymous User
Linux admin at a wholesaler/distributor
We have not had the need to contact technical support.
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Anonymous User
Security Consultant at a comms service provider
The technical support could be improved. We've had times when our requests get stuck with the engineering team and we...
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RussellBurrows
Senior IT Security Specialist at KNIPPERX INC.
The support is great. The problem with the support team is that it does not have a calling number. The best way to...
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Anonymous User
Computer Network Specialist at a healthcare company
Customer Service: ExcellentTechnical Support: Excellent
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Anonymous User
Information Security Senior Expert (Founding member, African Cybersecurity Center) at a financial services firm
The technical support for this solution is responsive.
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Layth Mansour
Information Security Officer at Umniah
Their support is very good. Technical support varies from person to person. Some cases have taken some time, but once...
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Anonymous User
InfoSec Consultant at a tech services company
Maybe I'm biased because of the beta program, but the support is very quick and competent. Also, the Rapid7 community...
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Al Sedghi
Chief Technology Officer at Globalnet Research Corporation
We have premium support and Rapid7 gives us a dedicated team and phone number so we can reach out whenever there is...
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Anonymous User
IT Security Analyst at a financial services firm
Their customer support is really bad. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would probably give it a 1.
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Anonymous User
Database Administrator
Among the best! Their support responds promptly. They fully resolve issues before closing tickets.
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Anonymous User
Information Security Manager at a tech vendor
Technical support for InsightIDR has been fantastic. We've used Rapid7 for over a year now, and, while support calls...
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Anonymous User
Director of Solutions and Alliances at a tech services company
Our company mostly receives fast and suitable support from Rapid7 InsightIDR, but sometimes the response arrives...
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Natthapong Fongsin
Assistant Technical Manager at a tech services company
We would sometimes need to reach out to technical support. This was only in instances when the product would crash or...
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Anonymous User
AppSec Engineer at a computer software company
Even with their support, I feel like their support is lacking. I don't think it's much support as compared to other...
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Anonymous User
Marketing Expert at a comms service provider
Technical support is good, and I would rate it eight out of ten.
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Anonymous User
Information Security and Governance Lead Engineer at a comms service provider
The tech support was not as robust as our prior experience with Cisco. With Cisco, we had immediate response.
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CuneytGurses
DevOps Engineer at Sonne Technology, Inc.
While it's true that there is no explicit support for various license types, the summer type seems to be highly...
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Finto Thomas
Information Security Program Preparer / Architect at Alef Education
When it comes to cultural adoption, when we put something new in the DevOps pipeline, the positive side is that we...
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Finto Thomas
Information Security Program Preparer / Architect at Alef Education
The technical support is good because we have a success manager allocated to us. So we usually go to the success...
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Axel Niering
Software Architect Sales Systems at SV Informatik GmbH
We have always had quick responses to questions we had, and they have always been very helpful. The people involved...
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Ashish Shukla
Global Treasurer at Genpact
I think we posted one or two queries on the development side, but the response was not that great. This may be due to...
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Axel Niering
Software Architect Sales Systems at SV Informatik GmbH
The customer service and support are good because if there are some problems, we can open a ticket there. And...
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Anthony Evans
Chief, Enterprise Automated Deployment (EAD) Branch at a government
Tech support is fine, they're very responsive.
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Anonymous User
Lead Member Of Technical Staff at a tech vendor
The customer support could be improved. Their response time is quite slow and it can take a long time to deploy new...
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Ingmar Vis
Product Owner Secure Coding at a financial services firm
I have contacted them, and I would rate them a seven out of 10. Like every big company that you contact for support,...
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Anonymous User
Java Development Manager at a government
Technical support has been really prompt.
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Katrin Schenker
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company
An evaluation of Sonatype's technical support is more a question for our infrastructure team. We did have some...
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Charles Chani
DevSecOps at a financial services firm
Technical support is very good and the model that Sonatype has taken is that it is a product company, it is not a...
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Vincenzo Fioravanti
Software analyst at a financial services firm
The technical support is good.
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Anonymous User
Technical Manager at a financial services firm
Sonatype support is quite responsive. When we needed something, we could reach out and set up a meeting. They provide...
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EdwinKwan
Security Team Lead at Tyro Payments Ltd
Their technical support has been pretty good. They're based in the US and the turnaround time tends to be overnight....
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Andy Cox
Product Strategy Group Director at Civica
The technical support is generally good. A couple of years ago there were some things that had been logged and that...
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Carlos Leão
Analista De Sistemas at Dataprev
We use Sonatype Lifecycle in its open-source software edition, so we do not have experience with their customer...
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Kulbhushan Mayer
DevOps Practitioner at a recreational facilities/services company
Technical support is effective.
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Anonymous User
Technical Consultant at a computer software company
I rate the technical support from Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle a six out of ten.
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Amal Alshehri
Sr cyber analyst at a energy/utilities company
I am very satisfied with their support. They are very nice people, and they are very helpful. I would rate their...
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Wes Kanazawa
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Primerica
Sonatype's technical support for this solution has been great. They answer my questions, even my stupid questions. I...
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Amal Alshehri
Sr cyber analyst at a energy/utilities company
I am very satisfied with their support. They are very nice people, and they are very helpful. I would rate their...
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AbhilashJain
DevOps engineer at a tech vendor
Technical support from Sonatype is not much needed. I had a problem once while creating a repository when the...
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ColinStandish
Project Manager at a recreational facilities/services company
Technical support is not perfect, but quite good. On a scale of one to ten, it's a seven or eight. They're generally...
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Anonymous User
Senior Big Data Engineer - Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis at a healthcare company
I did not use technical support.
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Shubham Shrivastava
Engineering Tools and Platform Manager at BT - British Telecom
My team works more closely with them, but I do get feedback from them. I have worked with their architect, Sola,...
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Anonymous User
Security Consultant at a financial services firm
I would rate Sonatype's technical support a solid ten out of ten. They are highly engaged, conduct weekly meetings to...
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Scott Hibbard
DevOps Engineer at Guardhat
We've used Sonatype's technical support a few times. We had some issues, and I think we might still have some issues,...
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Bernard Parinas
Co-Founder at arpa
The technical support team takes time to respond and depends on the nature of the request. We have to keep contacting...
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Michael Esmeraldo
Sr. Enterprise Architect at MIB Group, Inc.
We talk with John Burke, our rep at Sonatype. He was originally our sales rep and now he's their regional sales...
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