DigiCert Basic EV SSL Certificate
DigiCert Basic EV SSL certificates provide essential extended validation to secure your business website and build customer trust for one year.
- Extended Validation: Rigorous verification process to confirm your organization's legal identity, increasing customer confidence.
- Strong Encryption: Protects sensitive data transmitted between your website and visitors with up to 256-bit encryption.
- Trust Indicators: Displays a secure padlock and company name in the browser bar, signaling a legitimate and safe online presence.
- Annual Subscription: Ensures continuous protection and compliance with up-to-date security standards for your website.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The DigiCert Basic EV SSL certificate offers a foundational level of extended validation, providing a higher degree of assurance than standard SSL certificates. It verifies your organization's legal, physical, and operational existence, ensuring that visitors can trust the identity behind your website.
This certificate is ideal for business owners and IT professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to secure their primary business website, customer portals, or e-commerce platforms. It integrates easily into existing web server environments, providing a clear signal of security and legitimacy to your online audience.
- Extended Validation Process: Undergoes a thorough vetting procedure to confirm organizational identity.
- Domain and Organization Authentication: Verifies both your website's domain ownership and your company's legal status.
- High-Level Trust Signal: Displays the company name directly in the certificate details for enhanced transparency.
- Secure Data Transmission: Encrypts all data exchanged between the browser and the server.
- Annual Renewal: Provides continuous security and trust with a yearly subscription model.
Secure your online presence and build unwavering customer trust with the DigiCert Basic EV SSL certificate, designed for businesses seeking enhanced validation.
What This Solves
Enable secure customer transactions
Enable teams to secure online payment gateways and customer account portals with extended validation. This builds confidence during sensitive transactions, reducing cart abandonment and fraud concerns.
E-commerce platforms, SaaS applications, online service portals
Streamline website trust signals
Streamline the process of displaying verifiable organizational identity to website visitors. This ensures a clear and trustworthy signal, differentiating your legitimate site from potential imposter sites.
Corporate websites, lead generation sites, informational portals
Automate identity verification for web services
Automate the display of verified organizational credentials within the browser interface for web-based services. This provides an immediate trust indicator without requiring manual customer verification steps.
Customer support portals, member-only sites, data submission forms
Key Features
Extended Validation (EV) Process
Builds maximum customer trust by rigorously verifying your organization's legal and operational identity.
Up to 256-bit Encryption
Protects sensitive data transmitted between your website and visitors from interception and tampering.
Secure Site Seal
Provides a visual trust indicator on your website, reassuring visitors of your site's authenticity and security.
Domain and Organization Authentication
Confirms both your website's domain ownership and your company's legitimate existence.
Annual Subscription
Ensures continuous protection and compliance with current security standards through a predictable renewal cycle.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require the highest level of trust and security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure patient data privacy and compliance with HIPAA, necessitating strong encryption and verified site identities for patient portals and data exchange.
E-commerce & Retail
Online retailers need to build customer confidence for transactions, making EV SSL crucial for protecting payment information and reducing cart abandonment.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and must demonstrate a high degree of security and legitimacy to clients.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Extended Validation (EV) SSL?
Extended Validation (EV) SSL is a type of SSL certificate that requires a more rigorous verification process of the applicant's organization. This process confirms the organization's legal, physical, and operational existence, providing a higher level of trust to website visitors.
How does an EV SSL certificate build trust?
EV SSL certificates build trust by displaying the verified organization's name directly in the certificate details, accessible via the browser's security information. This transparency assures visitors that they are interacting with a legitimate entity, not a fraudulent site.
Is this certificate suitable for all websites?
This certificate is ideal for businesses that want to project a high level of trust and security, especially those handling sensitive transactions or customer data. While it offers enhanced validation, basic domain validation SSL may suffice for simpler informational sites.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.