DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides critical protection for your domain name system, ensuring your business remains accessible online with advanced DNS security features.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against common DNS threats like DDoS attacks and DNS spoofing.
- Reliable Availability: Protection for your domain's uptime, minimizing the risk of costly disruptions.
- Simplified Management: Tools to streamline DNS record management and configuration.
- Proactive Monitoring: Entitlement to alerts and insights on potential DNS security issues.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service designed to secure and manage your organization's domain name system (DNS). It offers essential protection against cyber threats targeting DNS infrastructure, ensuring your websites and online services remain consistently available to your customers and employees.
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 environments, providing a vital layer of security for businesses that rely heavily on their online presence for operations and revenue.
- Secure DNS Resolution: Protects against DNS hijacking and unauthorized changes.
- DDoS Mitigation: Defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks that can take your services offline.
- High Availability: Ensures your DNS is always responsive, even during peak traffic or attacks.
- Centralized Management: Simplifies the administration of DNS records and settings.
- Threat Intelligence: Provides insights into potential security risks affecting your DNS.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers SMB and mid-market teams a vital security and availability solution for their online operations without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable domain name resolution
Enable teams to protect their public-facing websites and online services from DNS-based attacks. Streamline the management of DNS records to ensure accurate and timely resolution for all users.
businesses with public websites, e-commerce operations, cloud-hosted applications, remote workforce access
Mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks
Automate defenses against DDoS attacks targeting the DNS infrastructure, preventing service disruptions. Protect critical business operations from being taken offline by malicious traffic floods.
companies with high-traffic websites, online service providers, businesses with strict uptime SLAs
Prevent DNS spoofing and hijacking
Protect against unauthorized modifications to DNS records that could redirect users to malicious sites. Ensure the integrity of your domain name system to maintain customer trust and data security.
financial services firms, healthcare providers, legal practices, any organization handling sensitive data
Key Features
Advanced DNS Security Protocols
Protects against sophisticated threats like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning, ensuring data integrity and preventing redirection to malicious sites.
DDoS Mitigation for DNS
Defends your domain's availability against distributed denial-of-service attacks, minimizing costly downtime and ensuring continuous access to your online services.
High Availability DNS Infrastructure
Ensures your DNS queries are consistently resolved with low latency, even during periods of high demand or security incidents, maintaining a positive user experience.
Centralized DNS Management Console
Simplifies the administration of all your DNS records through an intuitive interface, reducing complexity and the potential for configuration errors.
Proactive Threat Monitoring and Alerts
Provides early warning of potential security issues or anomalies within your DNS environment, allowing for timely intervention and risk mitigation.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security and high availability to protect sensitive data and maintain customer trust, making robust DNS protection essential for compliance and uninterrupted service delivery.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records, and critical communication systems, where DNS reliability is paramount for patient care and operational continuity.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in this sector rely heavily on online sales, reservations, and customer-facing applications; maintaining consistent website availability and preventing disruptions from cyber threats is vital for revenue and customer satisfaction.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and depend on secure, reliable access to their online platforms for communication and case management, where data integrity and uptime are critical.
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's the first step in connecting users to your online services; if your DNS is compromised or unavailable, your business is effectively offline.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against cyberattacks?
It employs advanced security measures to defend against common DNS threats such as DDoS attacks, DNS spoofing, and cache poisoning. This ensures your domain remains accessible and directs users to your legitimate online resources.
Is this service suitable for a small business?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for businesses of all sizes, including SMBs. It provides essential security and reliability for your online presence without requiring extensive IT resources or complex 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.