DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides cloud-based DNS security to protect your business from domain-level threats and ensure consistent online availability for your critical operations.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against common DNS attacks like DDoS and cache poisoning.
- Reliable Resolution: Protection against domain hijacking and unauthorized changes.
- Improved Performance: Optimized DNS infrastructure for faster website and application access.
- Simplified Management: Centralized control over DNS records and security settings.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based Domain Name System security service designed to protect your business's online identity and ensure the availability of your digital assets. It offers advanced protection against a range of DNS-specific threats, including domain hijacking, DDoS attacks, and unauthorized record modifications, ensuring your domains consistently resolve to the correct IP addresses.
This service is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses, managed by IT Managers or IT Professionals, who rely on their online presence for revenue and operations. It integrates into existing network infrastructure, providing a critical layer of security and reliability for websites, applications, and internal services without requiring extensive on-premises hardware or specialized DNS expertise.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Defends against DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and DDoS attacks.
- High Availability: Ensures your domains remain accessible to customers and partners.
- Secure DNS Records: Protects against unauthorized changes and domain hijacking.
- Performance Optimization: Delivers faster DNS lookups for improved user experience.
- Centralized Management: Provides an intuitive interface for managing DNS settings and security policies.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers essential DNS security and reliability, empowering SMB and mid-market teams to maintain a strong online presence with enterprise-grade protection.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable domain name resolution
Enable teams to protect their public-facing websites and internal applications from DNS-based attacks. Streamline the management of DNS records to ensure accurate and timely resolution, preventing downtime and reputational damage.
businesses with public websites, organizations with critical online applications, companies managing multiple domain names, businesses relying on consistent brand presence
Automate protection against DNS threats
Automate the defense against common DNS threats such as cache poisoning and DDoS attacks targeting domain resolution. Streamline security operations by offloading the complexity of DNS threat mitigation to a specialized cloud service.
companies seeking to reduce manual security tasks, IT departments with limited specialized DNS security staff, organizations requiring continuous threat monitoring, businesses with a cloud-first strategy
Ensure high availability for online services
Ensure continuous availability of critical online services by leveraging a resilient and optimized DNS infrastructure. Protect against domain hijacking and unauthorized record changes that could disrupt customer access or redirect traffic maliciously.
e-commerce businesses, service providers with uptime SLAs, organizations with global customer bases, companies with mission-critical web applications
Key Features
Cloud-based DNS infrastructure
Provides high availability and scalability for DNS resolution, ensuring your domains are always accessible.
DDoS protection for DNS
Defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting your DNS servers, preventing service disruptions.
DNSSEC support
Enhances DNS security by enabling cryptographic authentication of DNS data, protecting against spoofing and manipulation.
Secure DNS record management
Protects against unauthorized changes to DNS records, preventing domain hijacking and ensuring data integrity.
Global Anycast network
Delivers fast and reliable DNS query responses from geographically distributed servers, improving website performance.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and secure online services to conduct transactions and manage customer accounts, making robust DNS protection critical for compliance and trust.
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
Retailers and hospitality businesses depend on their online presence for sales, bookings, and customer engagement; any disruption in DNS resolution can lead to immediate revenue loss and customer dissatisfaction.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers need to maintain secure and uninterrupted access to client data and communication channels, where DNS integrity is essential for confidentiality and service delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DigiCert DNS Essentials?
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service that provides secure and reliable Domain Name System (DNS) resolution for your business. It protects your domains from various cyber threats and ensures your online services remain accessible to users.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect my business?
It protects your business by defending against DNS-specific attacks like DDoS, cache poisoning, and domain hijacking. It ensures that your domain names consistently resolve to the correct IP addresses, preventing malicious redirection or service outages.
Is this service suitable for small businesses?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for businesses of all sizes, including SMBs and mid-market companies. It offers enterprise-grade DNS security without the complexity or cost of managing your own DNS 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.