DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides essential protection for your domain name system, safeguarding your online presence against critical threats and ensuring uninterrupted service availability.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against common DNS attacks like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning.
- Reliable Resolution: Protection against service disruptions that could impact website and application accessibility.
- Proactive Monitoring: Entitlement to alerts and insights on potential DNS infrastructure vulnerabilities.
- Simplified Management: Access to tools that help maintain the integrity and performance of your DNS records.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based cybersecurity solution designed to protect your organization's domain name system (DNS) infrastructure. It offers critical defenses against common DNS-based threats, ensuring the integrity and availability of your online services.
This service is ideal for small to mid-market businesses, including those managed by a dedicated IT Manager or an IT Professional. It integrates into existing network environments, providing a vital layer of security for businesses that rely on their online presence for operations, customer engagement, and revenue generation.
- DNS Threat Protection: Defends against common attacks that target DNS resolution.
- Service Availability: Helps maintain continuous access to your websites and applications.
- Security Posture Improvement: Strengthens your overall cybersecurity framework.
- Operational Continuity: Minimizes risks associated with DNS downtime.
- Simplified Security Management: Offers straightforward tools for DNS security oversight.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers SMB and mid-market teams a vital layer of DNS security without the complexity of enterprise-grade solutions.
What This Solves
Enable teams to prevent DNS spoofing
Enable teams to protect their domain names from being hijacked or impersonated. This prevents users from being redirected to malicious sites, maintaining brand trust and customer security.
businesses with public-facing websites, organizations handling sensitive customer data, companies reliant on online transactions, businesses with active marketing campaigns
Streamline DNS infrastructure security
Streamline the management of DNS security by providing automated defenses against common attacks. This reduces the manual effort required to monitor and respond to threats, freeing up IT resources.
organizations with limited IT staff, businesses seeking to reduce operational complexity, companies prioritizing efficient IT management, environments with standard network configurations
Automate protection against cache poisoning
Automate the defense against DNS cache poisoning attacks that can corrupt DNS data. This ensures that users consistently resolve to the correct IP addresses, maintaining service integrity.
companies with critical online applications, businesses requiring high availability, organizations with a distributed workforce, environments with frequent software updates
Key Features
DNS Threat Detection
Proactively identifies and mitigates common DNS-based attacks, reducing the risk of service disruption and brand damage.
Service Availability Assurance
Helps maintain consistent access to your websites and applications, ensuring uninterrupted business operations and customer engagement.
Simplified Security Management
Provides straightforward tools and insights for managing DNS security, requiring less specialized expertise.
Subscription-based Model
Offers predictable costs and continuous updates for ongoing protection against evolving DNS threats.
Cloud-based Deployment
Enables quick implementation and requires no on-premises hardware, integrating easily into existing IT environments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high levels of security and availability for online banking and transaction processing, making robust DNS protection critical to prevent fraud and maintain customer trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records, and critical services, where DNS reliability is paramount for patient care and compliance with regulations like HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in retail and hospitality rely heavily on e-commerce platforms and online booking systems, where any disruption to DNS can lead to immediate revenue loss and damage customer experience.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle sensitive client data and require secure, reliable access to their online platforms for client communication and case management, making DNS integrity essential.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DigiCert DNS Essentials?
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based cybersecurity service that provides foundational protection for your organization's domain name system. It helps defend against common DNS threats and ensures the availability of your online services.
Who is this service for?
This service is designed for small to mid-market businesses that rely on their online presence. It is suitable for organizations with IT Managers or IT Professionals who need to secure their DNS infrastructure without the complexity of enterprise solutions.
How does this protect my business?
It protects your business by defending against attacks like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning, which can disrupt services or redirect users to malicious sites. This helps maintain your brand's reputation and ensures customers can access your legitimate online resources.
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.