GFI Systems Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a professional services firm, we use GFI Systems MailEssentials with many of our clients. I, personally, support them on the system. It is comprehensive and allows me to customize the system for that specific client. (Everyone is different, right?) Internally, we use GFI Systems LanGuard for security for our clients. Again, it is a very comprehensive system! With GFI Systems LanGuard, we are able to find and fix security issues before they become a "disaster!" It doesn't just look for updates and viruses, it goes much, much deeper into the registry of each device. It has "saved" our clients many times! Keep up the good work, GFI Systems!

Likelihood to Recommend

When our client wants to host email onsite, not in the cloud, our go-to is GFI Systems MailEssentials. You can set up allowed or blocked emails based on many parameters. The quarantine feature is easy to manage. Sometimes it "catches" too many emails. Easy to fix, though!

GFI Systems LanGuard is so comprehensive that initial scans take forever to run! But it is so comprehensive that it catches *everything*! Not just viruses, and lack of updates--it catches things in the endpoint's registry. And provides the full information on the endpoint in order to identify and fix it. Thanks, guys for great products!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use GFI Systems to stay on top of our client's workstations and servers. Mostly we use it for patch management, to proactively spot and deal with issues, web protection as well as remotely troubleshoot problems. We do use it for backups in some cases but this feature isn't as robust as we'd like and it can get a bit pricey relative to other backup services.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited if you want a central dashboard to manage multiple client's. Security issues does give us cause for concern.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GFI is a security suite that also does patch management. At our company, we used and tested this product in a proof of concept evaluation against many other similar products. Our company was mainly interested in its patch management capabilities that offers both agent and agentless scanning and deployments. At the end of the day, GFI is a great product that can suite companies in many different ways. For us, it offered too many things that we already had tools for. I believe any company that is looking for a full security suite tool kit would find this very useful, or for those who want everything in a single product.

Likelihood to Recommend

When a company wants a single platform that handles all security scanning and evaluation. I would also suggest to a small to medium-sized company that wants a patch management and security vulnerability tool that isn't going to break the bank.