DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides essential protection for your domain's online presence, safeguarding against common threats and ensuring continuous availability for your business operations.
- Enhanced Security: Protection against DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and denial-of-service attacks.
- Reliable Performance: Ensures consistent and fast domain name resolution for your critical business applications.
- Simplified Management: Easy-to-use interface for managing DNS records and security settings.
- Proactive Monitoring: Continuous oversight of your DNS infrastructure to detect and alert on suspicious activity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service designed to secure and manage your organization's Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. It offers critical protection against a range of cyber threats that target DNS, ensuring the integrity and availability of your online services.
This service is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses managed by IT Managers or IT Professionals who need to ensure their company's websites, email, and other internet-facing services remain accessible and secure without the complexity of managing advanced DNS security on-premises.
- DNS Security: Defends against common DNS attacks like spoofing and cache poisoning.
- High Availability: Ensures your domain names consistently resolve to the correct IP addresses.
- Performance Optimization: Delivers fast and reliable DNS lookups to improve user experience.
- Centralized Management: Provides a single pane of glass for managing all your DNS records.
- Threat Detection: Alerts you to potential security incidents affecting your DNS.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers SMB and mid-market teams a straightforward, effective solution for securing their DNS and maintaining online operational continuity.
What This Solves
Secure Domain Name Resolution
Enable teams to protect their public-facing domain names from common cyberattacks like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning. Streamline the process of ensuring that user requests are directed to the correct and legitimate servers, preventing man-in-the-middle attacks.
Cloud-hosted applications, E-commerce platforms, Public-facing websites
Ensure Service Availability
Automate the monitoring and protection of DNS infrastructure to guarantee high availability for critical business services. Maintain consistent connectivity for customers and partners by preventing DNS-related outages.
SaaS applications, Online portals, Remote workforce tools
Simplify DNS Management
Streamline the administration of DNS records across multiple domains and subdomains. Provide IT professionals with a centralized console to manage security settings and record configurations efficiently.
Multi-site organizations, Businesses with complex domain structures, Growing digital footprints
Key Features
DNS Security Protection
Defends against common DNS attacks, preventing unauthorized redirection of traffic and protecting your brand's integrity.
High Availability DNS
Ensures your domain names consistently resolve, keeping your websites and services accessible to users 24/7.
Centralized DNS Management
Simplifies the administration of DNS records, reducing complexity and potential for human error.
Performance Optimization
Delivers fast DNS lookups, improving the user experience and the responsiveness of your online services.
Threat Monitoring and Alerting
Provides early warning of potential DNS security issues, allowing for rapid response and mitigation.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly secure and available online services to protect sensitive customer data and maintain trust, making robust DNS protection essential for compliance and operational continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records, and critical communication systems, where any downtime due to DNS issues can have severe consequences.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely on constant online availability for e-commerce, booking systems, and customer engagement, where DNS disruptions can directly impact revenue and customer satisfaction.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers need to ensure secure and uninterrupted access to client data and communication platforms, where DNS integrity is paramount for confidentiality and service delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DNS and why is it important for my business?
DNS, or Domain Name System, translates human-readable website names (like zentnetworks.com) into machine-readable IP addresses. It's crucial because it directs users to your online services; if compromised, users can be sent to malicious sites or unable to reach you at all.
What kind of threats does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against?
It protects against common DNS threats such as DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that can disrupt service availability or redirect users to fraudulent websites.
Is this service suitable for a small business?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for businesses of all sizes, including SMBs, providing enterprise-grade DNS security and management without the need for extensive in-house expertise or infrastructure.
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.