DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides foundational DNS security and reliability, protecting your business from common online threats and ensuring consistent access to your digital assets.
- Enhanced Security: Protection against DNS spoofing and cache poisoning attacks.
- Reliable Access: Ensures your domain names consistently resolve to your network resources.
- Simplified Management: Streamlines DNS record configuration and updates.
- Proactive Monitoring: Detects and alerts on suspicious DNS 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 essential protection against common cyber threats targeting DNS, ensuring your websites and online services remain accessible and trustworthy.
This service is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses, managed by IT Managers or IT Professionals, who need to safeguard their online presence without the complexity of enterprise-level DNS management. It integrates into existing network environments, providing a critical layer of security for their own operational IT.
- Secure DNS Resolution: Protects against DNS cache poisoning and spoofing.
- High Availability: Ensures your domain names are always resolvable.
- Traffic Management: Basic capabilities for directing traffic to specific resources.
- Threat Detection: Alerts on unusual DNS query patterns.
- Simplified Configuration: Easy setup and management of DNS records.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers SMB and mid-market teams essential DNS security and reliability, simplifying management while protecting against critical online threats.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable domain name resolution
Enable teams to protect their public-facing domain names from common cyber threats like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning. Streamline the process of ensuring websites and online services are consistently accessible to customers and employees.
businesses with public websites, organizations relying on online services, companies with remote employees, businesses managing their own domain names
Protect against DNS-based cyberattacks
Automate the defense against malicious actors attempting to redirect traffic or disrupt access through DNS manipulation. Provide proactive protection that safeguards business reputation and prevents revenue loss due to downtime.
companies with e-commerce operations, organizations handling sensitive data, businesses with critical online applications, firms requiring high availability
Simplify DNS record management
Streamline the configuration and maintenance of DNS records, reducing the risk of human error and misconfigurations. Ensure that domain name changes are implemented accurately and efficiently, supporting business agility.
businesses with fluctuating IT needs, organizations undergoing digital transformation, companies with limited IT staff, teams managing multiple domain names
Key Features
DNSSEC Support
Protects against DNS cache poisoning and spoofing by digitally signing DNS data, ensuring its authenticity and integrity.
High Availability DNS Infrastructure
Ensures your domain names are always resolvable, minimizing downtime and maintaining continuous access to your online resources.
Threat Monitoring and Alerting
Proactively detects suspicious DNS activity and alerts your IT team, allowing for rapid response to potential security incidents.
Easy to Use Interface
Simplifies the management of DNS records and security settings, reducing the complexity for IT staff.
Global Anycast Network
Provides fast and reliable DNS resolution worldwide by distributing traffic across multiple data centers.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security and high availability to protect sensitive customer data and maintain trust, making robust DNS security essential for compliance and operational continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure continuous access to patient portals and critical systems, while adhering to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA, which necessitates secure and reliable DNS.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in this sector rely heavily on online presence for sales and customer engagement; protecting against attacks that could disrupt e-commerce or booking systems is vital for revenue.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client information and depend on uninterrupted access to their digital resources and communication channels, making DNS security a priority.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DNS and why is it important to secure?
DNS, or Domain Name System, translates human-readable domain names (like zentnetworks.com) into machine-readable IP addresses. Securing DNS is crucial because attacks on it can redirect users to malicious sites, steal data, or cause service outages, impacting your business operations and reputation.
Who is the target audience for DigiCert DNS Essentials?
This service is designed for small to mid-market businesses that need robust DNS security and reliability. It is managed by IT Managers or IT Professionals within these organizations who are responsible for their company's own IT infrastructure.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials differ from standard DNS hosting?
Standard DNS hosting primarily focuses on resolving domain names. DigiCert DNS Essentials adds critical security layers, threat detection, and high availability features specifically designed to protect against cyberattacks and ensure consistent service uptime, going beyond basic resolution.
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.