DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides critical protection for your organization's domain name system, ensuring continuous online presence and security.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against common DNS threats like DDoS attacks and DNS spoofing.
- Improved Reliability: Protection against unauthorized DNS changes that could disrupt services.
- Streamlined Management: Entitlement to simplified DNS zone management for core domains.
- Proactive Monitoring: Access to alerts for suspicious DNS activity impacting your network.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service designed to secure and manage your organization's critical domain name system (DNS) infrastructure. It offers essential protection against common cyber threats targeting DNS, ensuring your websites and online services remain accessible and trustworthy.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-market companies who need to safeguard their online identity without the complexity of managing advanced DNS security solutions in-house. It integrates with existing network infrastructure to provide a vital layer of cybersecurity.
- DNS Security: Defends against common DNS attacks, reducing the risk of downtime.
- Zone Management: Simplifies the administration of DNS records for essential domains.
- Availability Assurance: Helps maintain consistent access to your online services.
- Threat Detection: Provides alerts for potential security incidents affecting DNS.
- Scalable Solution: Adapts to the evolving needs of growing businesses.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers essential DNS security and management, providing peace of mind for SMB and mid-market teams.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable domain name resolution
Enable teams to protect their public-facing websites and services from DNS-based attacks. Streamline the management of DNS records to ensure accurate and timely updates for all critical online assets.
businesses with public websites, organizations relying on online services, companies with e-commerce operations, businesses with remote employees
Automate DNS security monitoring
Automate the detection of suspicious DNS activity that could indicate a security breach or service disruption. Provide proactive alerts to IT staff, enabling faster response times to potential threats.
companies with limited IT security staff, organizations seeking to reduce alert fatigue, businesses requiring continuous network monitoring
Simplify DNS zone administration
Streamline the process of managing DNS zones and records for core business domains. Reduce the complexity and potential for human error in DNS configuration and maintenance.
businesses with multiple domain names, organizations undergoing digital transformation, companies standardizing IT operations
Key Features
DNS Security Protection
Defends against common DNS attacks like DDoS and spoofing, reducing the risk of service disruption.
Simplified Zone Management
Provides an intuitive interface for managing DNS records, saving IT time and reducing errors.
Proactive Threat Monitoring
Alerts IT teams to suspicious DNS activity, enabling faster incident response.
Enhanced Reliability
Helps ensure your domain names consistently resolve, keeping your online services accessible.
Subscription-based SaaS
Offers predictable costs and easy scalability as your business needs evolve.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security to protect sensitive data and maintain customer trust, making DNS security a critical component of their IT infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with strict regulations like HIPAA, which necessitate secure data handling and uninterrupted access to patient information and services.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses rely heavily on online presence for sales, bookings, and customer engagement, making DNS availability and security paramount for revenue generation.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and depend on consistent online access for communication and case management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DigiCert DNS Essentials?
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service that provides essential security and management for your organization's domain name system. It helps protect against common DNS threats and ensures your online services remain available.
Who is the target audience for this service?
This service is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-market companies who need to secure their DNS infrastructure without the complexity of enterprise-level solutions.
How does this service improve online availability?
By protecting against DNS attacks and unauthorized changes, DigiCert DNS Essentials helps prevent service disruptions, ensuring your websites and applications remain accessible to your customers and partners.
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.