DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides foundational DNS security and reliability, protecting your business from common online threats and ensuring continuous availability of your digital assets.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against DNS spoofing and DDoS attacks to safeguard your online presence.
- Reliable Performance: Protection against downtime with high availability DNS infrastructure.
- Simplified Management: Entitlement to easy-to-use tools for managing your DNS records efficiently.
- Proactive Monitoring: Access to alerts for potential security issues or performance degradations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based Domain Name System security and management service designed to protect businesses from common online threats. It offers essential protection against DNS-based attacks, ensuring your domain names resolve correctly and your online services remain accessible to customers.
This service is ideal for small to mid-market businesses, including those with dedicated IT departments or managed by an IT professional. It integrates into existing network infrastructure, providing a critical layer of security and reliability for any organization that relies on its online presence for operations and customer engagement.
- Secure DNS Resolution: Protects against DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and other malicious attacks.
- High Availability: Ensures your domain names are always resolvable with a resilient, distributed DNS network.
- DDoS Mitigation: Defends against Distributed Denial of Service attacks targeting your DNS infrastructure.
- Simplified Management: Provides an intuitive interface for managing DNS records and security settings.
- Proactive Threat Detection: Offers monitoring and alerts for suspicious activity affecting your DNS.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers essential security and reliability for businesses seeking to protect their online identity without the complexity of enterprise-grade solutions.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable domain name resolution
Enable teams to protect their domain names from common cyber threats like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning. Streamline the management of DNS records to ensure accurate and timely resolution for all online services.
Businesses with public-facing websites, cloud-based applications, e-commerce platforms
Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service attacks
Automate the defense against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting the DNS infrastructure. Protect against service disruptions that could lead to significant revenue loss and reputational damage.
Organizations reliant on continuous online service availability, companies experiencing frequent traffic spikes
Ensure continuous online service availability
Support business continuity by maintaining high availability for DNS resolution. Prevent downtime caused by infrastructure failures or security incidents, ensuring customers can always access your services.
Companies with critical online operations, businesses with strict uptime requirements
Key Features
Secure DNS Resolution
Protects against DNS spoofing and cache poisoning, preventing malicious redirection of your website traffic.
High Availability DNS Network
Ensures your domain names are always resolvable, minimizing downtime and maintaining customer access to your services.
DDoS Mitigation
Defends your DNS infrastructure against Distributed Denial of Service attacks, keeping your online presence accessible.
Simplified Management Portal
Provides an easy-to-use interface for managing DNS records and security settings, reducing administrative burden.
Proactive Monitoring and Alerts
Offers timely notifications of potential security threats or performance issues, allowing for swift response.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and high availability to protect sensitive data and maintain customer trust, making DNS security a critical component of their operations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA, necessitating secure and reliable access to patient portals and critical systems, where DNS integrity is paramount.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in this sector rely heavily on online presence for sales, bookings, and customer engagement; ensuring continuous website availability and preventing disruptions from cyber threats is vital for revenue.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and depend on secure, uninterrupted access to their online platforms and communication channels.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DNS and why is it important for my business?
DNS, or Domain Name System, translates human-readable domain names (like zentnetworks.com) into machine-readable IP addresses. It's crucial because it directs users to your website, applications, and services. Securing your DNS prevents cyberattacks that could disrupt these connections.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against cyber threats?
It provides essential security layers to defend against common attacks like DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and DDoS attacks targeting your DNS infrastructure. This helps ensure your domain names resolve correctly and your online services remain available.
Is this service suitable for small businesses?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for small to mid-market businesses. It offers critical DNS security and reliability without the complexity or cost of enterprise-level solutions, making it accessible for organizations of varying IT 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.