Symantec Endpoint Security Customer Service and Support
I rate Symantec support an eight out of ten. They are pretty solid in terms of technical know-how and support. My only complaint is the process of handing off between two support engineers. Whoever takes over will ask you to start from the beginning. There isn't proper documentation of the call and communication between engineers.
Let's say you have made 60% progress toward resolving your issue. Whoever takes over from that engineer should be able to pick it from 60% and drive it to 100%. In most cases, the new engineer may even take you back down to 20%. It wastes a lot of time.
View full review »We have contacted their technicians to help us with issues. The last one was very good. He tried to help us with different kinds of troubleshooting, as it was very important to find a solution.
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Glen Estes
IT Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
On the rare occasions that I needed to call technical support, they were top-notch. I would rate them nine out of 10. There's always room for improvement, but it was pretty close to perfect.
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Symantec Endpoint Security
April 2024
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I rate Symantec support six out of ten. They need more specialized support engineers with advanced knowledge of Endpoint Security. We have several people with experience using the product, so we know the basics already. Also, the resolution speed isn't acceptable.
View full review »The technical support is excellent; they always provide timely resolution of our queries regarding installation, support, deployments etc.
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AnandAnandharaj
Desktop Support Engineer at Dixit Infotech Services Pvt Ltd
Symantec support is excellent.
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SagarShah
Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Generally, we get a response, and it works, but we have seen some delays or very generic responses. If there is a quarantined file and we need information about what kind of data is there in that file, it takes a lot of time. We sometimes have to escalate to the next level for getting a proper and timely response because it's our client's data that is in quarantine. I would rate them an eight out of ten.
View full review »Their support is good. I would rate them a seven out of ten. Their response time varies. If your case is assigned to the India side, they take extra time. They will ask you for the log files, and the next day, they will do a remote session. Sometimes, the client gets frustrated because this is a security component, and they want to resolve the issue as soon as possible. If the case is assigned to someone on our side and we get a highly qualified person, they can handle it within a day.
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Kin Lol
Senior IT Security Officer at Lion International Bank
We have not been in direct contact with Symantec technical support.
The training and documentation that they provide are helpful. There is a good amount of documentation that helped to provide us with a complete picture of the product. It's nice, neat, and easy to understand.
View full review »Their technical support is fine. I didn't find any issues with that. I would rate them a nine out of ten.
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Leopold Dapa
Country Director at SOCITECH S.A.
Their technical support is reactive. When you have an issue, you just log a service request and you can find an engineer to help you. I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten. We're very confident that whenever we have an issue we can find the solution. It also depends on the support you choose. We have 24-hour support.
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Atit Tandon
Director at Tandon Electronics
I rate Symantec support a nine out of ten. I only had to contact them once in ten years, and the support was excellent. They solved the problem in ten minutes.
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Edwin Acquah
Senior Desktop Engineer
We have used their technical support a few times because we have had challenges with licensing issues.
You have to go to the support site and log a ticket. They will assign it to an agent and then the agent will call and assist you with the issue. They have always been helpful whenever we have contacted them.
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Suryakumar Selvaraj
Security Consultant at InfySec
Because the threat hunting is done by AI/ML, we have only had to reach out to support when there is an issue. If we write them an email, we get responses promptly.
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Marbella Ibarra
CEO at CT AMERICA
Technical support needs to be better. We don't have any specialists available for us. We are located in Latin America. We are located in El Salvador, in Central America. We don't have any specialists available for us in order to help us or to teach us how to solve our problems. We are looking online mostly at this point for some advice in blogs and forums. That's not what our expectations were when we signed up. We open tickets through the webpage and nobody happens. We are a little disappointed in that sense.
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Syed Akram
Information Technology Specialist at Wonderla Holidays Ltd
We have not yet used the Threat Hunter Team.
I would rate the technical support as nine out of 10. Most things are resolved within a day. Some things have taken a week because they needed to assess the system and what went wrong. Critical assessment of root causes takes about two to three days.
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reviewer1511340
Sr. Windows Analysts at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't been too happy with technical support, We'd like them to be more helpful and responsive.
View full review »I'd rate them an eight out of ten. We had to raise an issue only once, and it was resolved within hours.
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Manjit Singh
Senior Information Security Engineer at Herbalife
I would rate them an eight out of 10. Sometimes, it takes a lot of time to connect to Symantec through a call. They usually reply by email. They are also reachable on call, but it takes lots of time to connect to them by phone.
View full review »I am happy with the solution's technical support team.
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DarrenBraithwaite
Operations Manager at Telescope Digital
Their support isn't always very easy. It is difficult to know who to call.
The online knowledge base is quite difficult to navigate because they seem to have so many products, and there are so many different versions of all of those products. It is hard to find an article that relates to the problem you are trying to solve.
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reviewer1521729
IT Director at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Technical support is a bit of an issue. In Brazil, when we need technical support we use a partner. Every time that we contact Symantec, it will take a long time to get the answer. The primary contact is the partner who implements the software here. It's a local company from Brazil that handles all the support information and services for us. We just needed to make contact with Symantec one time however, the answer was so long that the partner got the answer to us first and therefore we really stopped trying to directly reach out.
View full review »The support from Symantec Endpoint Security is very good.
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reviewer1337973
Computer Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
Once Symantec was sold to Broadcom, it became very difficult to reach out to technical support, and they just stopped being responsive. By the end, we were very unhappy with their level of support.
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reviewer1530012
IT manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We have a contract with the local Symantec partner in Serbia so we can speak to them in our language. The support is very good.
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Badrul Hisyam Jamil
Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The technical support team’s response time is slow.
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Jeevan Kumar
Technical Manager at Digital World
We have completed several installations but have never contacted technical support.
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reviewer1364142
Senior Network Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
Technical support is good, but when they sold to Broadcom, even though people were paying for the support they were not getting it.
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Gulab Singh
Solutions Specialist Security at COMPAREX India Pvt. Ltd.
The technical support is very good. They have an Indian support team, so there are no delays in receiving support.
Their R&D teams are very strong in remediation.
View full review »We have been a Symantec partner for a long time. Since the Broadcom takeover, we have been facing many issues with support. In the last three years, we have not received proper support from them. We have had the worst experience with their support. They don’t understand the issue. I explain the problem, and after two or three days, they again come back asking for the log. I would rate them a five out of ten.
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Vivek Koradiya
Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Their support is good. Every time we are facing an issue, their technical support team is able to help us. I would rate them a ten out of ten.
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Sandip Arote
Technical lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Currently, the technical support is not very good. I would rate them four out of ten. Their response time is slow.
I'm not dealing with this product on the front line—it's managed by my colleagues on the security team—but I think Symantec's technical support is fine. If we ever have an issue, I think we raise a ticket to Symantec's support center, and they take care of us.
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reviewer1643460
Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We have found Symantec's technical support to be very sluggish. They are very slow to respond and alert us to changes. It's quite a problem. Trend Micro, for example, has much better service. Even if you look at Palo Alto, they really work with you and give you complete training. Symantec really doesn't offer its clients much.
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TityaOuch
Manager VAPT at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
When we were not able to find a solution to issues we are having we have contacted technical support. There are times we created a support ticket in the morning and they respond in the evening when we are not available. However, they have been helpful and eventually provide us with a solution, it can take a bit of time.
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reviewer1768896
Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have not personally contacted technical support, but my security team may have.
Broadcom is concentrating on its top 200 customers. I don't think my team is overly impressed with the support they have been getting.
The support needs improvement.
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Jayant Pant
Sr India Admin at Aon Hewitt
The support from Broadcom has been good.
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Collins Amaife
System Analyst at Abbey Mortgage Bank
The support hasn't been fantastic lately. It can be better. We're not very satisfied overall. They need to be more helpful and responsive.
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reviewer973497
Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have an IT department that gives me technical support.
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reviewer1177653
Sr. Professional Services Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The technical support is similar to other companies. You're assigned a low level guy on your first call. We don't have issues with the basic things, it's more about the bigger problems so we always have to escalate and they do a good job of it.
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Rodrigo Martin
CEO Iberia & Latam at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
I have not contacted technical support.
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ASHRAF ALI HASSAN
Senior Manager Network Design at MEEZA, Managed IT Services Provider
When it was directly with Symantec, the technical support was perfect. After Broadcom acquired Symantec, the level of technical support dropped. It wasn't the same as before.
It could be more responsive. They should go back to having responsive and highly knowledgeable teams. They were almost like that, but after the Broadcom acquisition, there were noticeable changes.
View full review »Since the division of the company, we have experienced a lack of support.
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Sagar Dandge
Information Technology Executive at JFE Shoji Steel India Pvt. Ltd.
We are not satisfied with the technical support and find it greatly lacking.
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NoufalMohamed
Technical Manager at Mignet Technologies
Initially, our customer had a problem with SSO, and they contacted Symantec's technical support. They got immediate support, but the support that they received was not good.
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Naveed Ali
Unit Head Infrastructure at First Woman Bank Limited
I have not had much experience with their tech support.
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reviewer1069713
Project Manager at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
We've dealt with technical support in the past. They are okay, however, they could be faster in their response time. We're not fully satisfied with their level of service.
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Laeeq Ahmed
IT Security Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate them a 10 out of 10. They supply good support and have a good knowledge.
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reviewer1255092
Manager Operations/ Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
We have not had a positive experience with technical support.
View full review »The Symantec customer support team is responsive by email. I would say it is between 80% to 90% effective.
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reviewer1382439
Director at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
I've used technical support in the past. They've always been okay. We've had very few incidents where we've had to have to call them and ask for assistance. Out of those incidents, in my recollection, the last one was probably a couple of years ago, but those incidents were quickly resolved.
I would say, overall, we've been satisfied with their level of service in the past.
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reviewer928773
Head of IT Department at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I only use the technical support once or twice a year. I find that sometimes they are a bit slow to find a solution.
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reviewer958518
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
So far, my company has not faced any problems with the solution's technical support. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1553202
Manager IS Security at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Technical support has been very good so far. We find them to be helpful and responsive. We're quite satisfied with the level of support we get.
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reviewer2009892
IT Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
We have not used the technical support so far.
View full review »Broadcom's support is friendly and very professional. However, in Pakistan, the support team takes more time than Trend Micro or Sophos to reach the bottom, as their policies are under review. A strategy should be employed to open this to Pakistan, as well. As such, a delay occurs, something which occasionally comes about indirectly. The support itself is good, but the issue which needs to be addressed concerns the promptness with which an assigned engineer can address each ticket we open.
View full review »I am not directly involved with the support team, one of my colleagues handles this communication.
View full review »Customer Service:
Customer service is very good.
Technical Support:
I used technical support through a vendor and they were very good.
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Ramy Reda
Security Technical Consultant at Prosoft Information Systems
Technical support is good.
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Nirav Joshi
Sr. Officer - Quality Assurance at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The support from Symantec has been poor in my experience. They did not have the knowledge to help us with the issues we were facing.
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Imtiaz Hussain
Endpoint Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The technical support is also very good. Any time that I open a case with them, they have three types of support levels. If I put it on two, immediately they call me, or if nobody is online, there are the chat agents.
You can start and use the chat for support. The support is very good. But Kaspersky has 24-hour support. You cannot stop your business continuity. We can't tell the people they will come online later. Other than this case, Symantec is very good.
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Emiliano Santos
Group Brand Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We haven't used their technical support. We receive support directly from Symantec here in Mexico and they are pretty responsive.
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reviewer1503366
Information Technology at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
We wanted to reach technical support but it was a very complicated process. There is no local Broadcom support in Hong Kong.
The whole process needs to be improved. You have to log in, put in some verification information that includes a lot of credentials. Then, they want you to upload your license information before you can log a ticket. Overall, it's not a nice process.
It takes a really long time to get support and when you're waiting for something to be fixed, it's not like you have all of the time in the world.
I would rate the technical support a one out of ten.
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SystemAdmin677
IT Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The technical support is ok. You create a ticket and depending on what the issue is, and whether it is an emergency, they give it a level such as one, two, or three. After this, they take action and they are pretty good.
Most of the solutions to things like installation issues or other incompatibilities, they are quick on creating "How to" pages in their help.
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reviewer1415661
General Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
I cannot comment on the technical support as I do not deal with them directly.
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Abhijit Chaudhari
IT Specialist at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Prior to the acquisition by Broadcom, we were receiving proper technical support. Right now, we are not getting any support from them, and we are changing products as a result.
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reviewer1392531
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
The customer service was good.
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Lynne Caputi
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Symantec tech support is fairly good, a little hard to get a hold of sometimes, but fairly good overall.
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Marcelo De Paula
Industrial Automation Analyst at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution was bought by Broadcom and since the change, the support has not been good.
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reviewer1045947
System Administrator at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
I don't know how their support is these days. Their support used to be good in the past before they were taken over by Broadcom.
View full review »Technical support for this solution is good. We speak to the technical support team directly.
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Mamonoor Rashid
CEO at Tech Valley Networks Limited
We get good support from Symantec. We find that during integration, if we face any problems, we get a good response from the OEM and we solve them very quickly. Technical support is very good, they have a toll-free number.
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KinjalDangeria
Director Of Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The technical support provided by Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is good.
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ParveshDhurmea
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd
The technical support could improve because when you reach level one support there is a lot of delays.
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Anthony Ndong
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Technical support for this solution is ok. I have no issues with them.
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reviewer725523
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Technical support is okay. I'm not completely satisfied with them.
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Darren Braithwaite
IT Manager at Digitalis Reputation
I haven't had much cause to use technical support. I might have used them only a few times. The support is okay, it's just difficult to actually find the contact numbers or email addresses because their site is so cumbersome.
View full review »The technical support is fine, no problem.
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LeadSysEn375629
Lead System Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Depending on who you end up with, it can take a while before you get the correct support.
View full review »Symantec Customer support is very good. Indeed, it is one of the best so far. The KB articles are good and helpful.
View full review »We needed help for one or two issues and the support team was good.
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reviewer1118802
Account Manager, Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is bad because the support has changed.
Technical support could be more knowledgeable.
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reviewer1306221
Sr Manager IT at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
We've been in touch with technical support and have found them to be responsive and knowledgeable. We're satisfied with their level of service.
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reviewer1237086
Service Manager with 51-200 employees
Symantec does not have local support.
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reviewer944616
Manager IT & Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
The technical support of Symantec was very good earlier, but it has merged with Broadcom. There are some delays happening and I hope they are resolved soon.
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Cameron Mottus
Principal Consultant - Security at Insentra
Most times it's good, but there are instances where there are some challenges in that the people who you're working with don't know how to fix what you're doing. Then you have to ask for an escalation. Normally what I'll do is I'll work with my Symantec colleagues to help escalate any internal issues, where we see that things are getting bogged down in support.
From a Symantec technology perspective I'm very happy with it. However, the support can be wanting, for those reasons. Sometimes the time to resolution is longer than I would expect.
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reviewer1588308
Director for Cybersecurity Solutions at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
They are the best. There is no problem in regards to response time. You can easily get technical support.
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Dr. Suresh Hungenahally
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I'd rate technical support as average.
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reviewer1621080
IT Executive at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Symantec Endpoint Security's support is slow and inconvenient.
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Sudeep Amalkar
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Customer Service:
Customer Service is the best.
Technical Support:I would give technical support a rating of 10/10. I love the way they support clients.
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reviewer1500906
Technology Strategy Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I cannot comment properly on customer service/technical support since this is an area handled by the IT team. Having said this, as it is on cloud it should not be too time consuming and should be easy to deploy.
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reviewer1049148
Regulatory Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Technical support is pretty good and we haven't had any issues.
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Mohamed Belal
Solutions Architect at IP Protocol INC
The technical support is good. They are not the best, but they are good.
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Johnny Hadchity
IT System and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We have not used it.
View full review »Technical support is good. You can open tickets over international numbers, emails, or the website. If you open a ticket in your time-zone, you will work with a technical support representative in your local language. Otherwise, it will be in English.
View full review »The technical support is acceptable.
View full review »I am not the contact point for technical support, so I can't say anything about their technical support.
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reviewer1299987
IT Systems Supervisor at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
I have not contacted technical support.
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SEP677
Service Management Officer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
I'm pretty satisfied with technical support.
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reviewer1299987
IT Systems Supervisor at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
My staff has used support but I personally have not.
View full review »I have dealt with technical support twice. One was related to an install issue, and that was quickly resolved. It was an old operating system. In one night it was fixed with no issues. They have good support overall.
View full review »I haven't had any problems with technical support at all. I've never contacted them.
View full review »The technical support is acceptable.
View full review »Technical support is average.
View full review »The few times that I contacted technical support, it was very good.
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Reviewer8093
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's amazing. They have the local support team always here, and they also have the international level team.
View full review »Excellent.
View full review »Eight out of 10.
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Symantec Endpoint Security
April 2024
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769,662 professionals have used our research since 2012.