DigiCert Additional CA
DigiCert Additional CA provides extended trust and identity verification for your organization's digital assets, ensuring secure online interactions and transactions.
- Extended Trust: Gain an additional Certificate Authority to bolster your digital trust infrastructure.
- Enhanced Security: Strengthen authentication and encryption across your web services and applications.
- Compliance Support: Meet stringent industry regulations requiring robust identity verification and certificate management.
- Scalable Identity: Expand your certificate issuance capabilities to support growing business needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert Additional CA is a subscription service that provides access to an additional Certificate Authority (CA) from DigiCert, a leading provider of digital trust services. This service is designed to enhance your organization's security posture by enabling the issuance of digital certificates from a trusted, secondary CA, offering greater flexibility and resilience in your identity management strategy.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers, Security Officers, and Business Owners in SMB and mid-market companies who need to manage digital identities, secure online communications, and ensure compliance with security standards. It integrates into existing PKI infrastructures or can be used to establish a more robust, multi-CA environment, providing a critical layer of security for web servers, code signing, and other digital assets.
- Dual CA Strategy: Implement a secondary Certificate Authority for redundancy and risk mitigation.
- Expanded Issuance: Increase your capacity for issuing and managing digital certificates.
- Advanced Security Features: Benefit from DigiCert's industry-leading security protocols and practices.
- Flexible Deployment: Integrate with existing infrastructure or build a new, resilient PKI.
- Trusted Identity Verification: Ensure the authenticity and integrity of your digital interactions.
Empower your business with an additional layer of digital trust and security through DigiCert's advanced Certificate Authority services.
What This Solves
Enhance PKI Resilience with Dual CA Strategy
Enable teams to mitigate risks associated with single Certificate Authority reliance by implementing a secondary, trusted CA. Streamline certificate issuance and management across diverse digital assets, ensuring continuous operational security.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises servers, hybrid cloud environments, secure communication gateways
Strengthen Digital Identity and Authentication
Automate the verification of digital identities for employees, partners, and customers through a trusted secondary CA. Improve the security of online transactions and data exchange, building greater confidence in your digital interactions.
e-commerce platforms, customer portals, secure API integrations, internal authentication systems
Support Stringent Compliance and Audit Requirements
Organizations deploying robust security frameworks can leverage an additional CA to meet complex regulatory mandates for identity assurance and data protection. Ensure auditability and adherence to industry-specific security standards.
financial services compliance, healthcare data security, government digital identity, secure software development
Key Features
Access to a secondary DigiCert Certificate Authority
Reduces reliance on a single CA, enhancing resilience and mitigating operational risks.
Trusted digital certificate issuance
Ensures the authenticity and integrity of your online presence and digital communications.
Subscription-based service model
Provides predictable costs and scalable access to advanced security capabilities.
Support for various certificate types
Enables secure SSL/TLS, code signing, and other identity-based applications.
DigiCert's industry-leading security standards
Leverages a globally recognized leader in digital trust for enhanced security assurance.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security and identity verification to protect sensitive data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR, making a dual CA strategy essential for trust and resilience.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must secure patient data (PHI) under HIPAA, demanding robust encryption and authentication provided by trusted digital certificates issued from reliable Certificate Authorities.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client information, necessitating secure communication channels and document integrity, which are reinforced by trusted digital certificates.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses process significant customer transaction data, requiring secure e-commerce platforms and customer portals to maintain trust and comply with data protection standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an Additional CA?
An Additional CA provides you with a secondary root of trust from a trusted Certificate Authority. This allows you to issue digital certificates from a different authority than your primary one, enhancing your Public Key Infrastructure's resilience and flexibility.
Who typically uses an Additional CA service?
Organizations that require a robust Public Key Infrastructure, need to meet stringent compliance standards, or want to mitigate the risks associated with relying on a single Certificate Authority often utilize an Additional CA. This includes businesses of all sizes looking to enhance their digital security.
How does this service integrate with my existing systems?
The integration process depends on your specific environment and existing PKI setup. Zent Networks can assist in assessing your needs and guiding the integration to ensure it aligns with your security policies and operational requirements.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.