DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides essential security and reliability for your organization's domain name system, ensuring continuous online presence and protecting against common threats.
- Enhanced Security: Protection against DNS spoofing and DDoS attacks.
- Improved Reliability: High availability DNS infrastructure to keep your services online.
- Simplified Management: Centralized control over DNS records for all your domains.
- Proactive Monitoring: Alerts for potential issues affecting your domain's performance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service designed to secure and manage your organization's critical DNS infrastructure. It offers robust protection against common cyber threats and ensures the high availability of your online services, preventing downtime and safeguarding your brand reputation.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-market companies who need to ensure their business websites, applications, and internal services remain accessible and secure without the complexity of managing their own DNS servers.
- Secure DNS Resolution: Protects against DNS cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
- DDoS Mitigation: Defends your DNS infrastructure against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
- High Availability: Ensures your domain names are always resolvable with redundant infrastructure.
- Global Anycast Network: Delivers fast and reliable DNS query responses worldwide.
- Centralized Management Portal: Easy-to-use interface for managing DNS records and settings.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers SMB and mid-market teams the critical DNS security and performance they need, without the enterprise-level overhead.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable website access
Enable teams to ensure their public-facing websites and applications are always accessible and protected from common DNS attacks. Streamline the management of domain records for critical business services, reducing the risk of costly downtime.
E-commerce platforms, SaaS providers, corporate websites, online portals
Protect internal services from resolution failures
Streamline the management of internal DNS records for critical business applications and services. Automate the protection of your internal network's domain resolution, ensuring employees can access necessary resources without interruption.
Internal applications, private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud environments, business process tools
Mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
Automate the defense of your DNS infrastructure against sophisticated DDoS attacks that aim to disrupt online services. Protect your organization's reputation and revenue by maintaining continuous availability of your digital assets.
Online businesses, service providers, organizations with high traffic websites, critical infrastructure
Key Features
Global Anycast Network
Ensures fast and reliable DNS query responses from the closest available server, improving website load times and user experience.
DDoS Mitigation
Protects your DNS infrastructure from volumetric and application-layer attacks, preventing service outages and maintaining business continuity.
DNSSEC Support
Provides cryptographic authentication of DNS data, protecting against DNS cache poisoning and spoofing attacks.
Centralized Management Portal
Offers an intuitive interface for managing all DNS records, simplifying administration and reducing the risk of human error.
High Availability Architecture
Guarantees continuous DNS resolution through redundant infrastructure, minimizing downtime and ensuring your services are always accessible.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security to protect sensitive data and maintain customer trust, making secure DNS a critical component of their operations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient portals, EMR systems, and critical services, adhering to strict compliance and uptime requirements.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in retail and hospitality rely heavily on online presence for sales, bookings, and customer engagement, necessitating reliable and secure DNS to prevent revenue loss.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies need to ensure secure and uninterrupted access to client data and communication platforms, where downtime can have significant consequences.
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 www.example.com) into machine-readable IP addresses. It's crucial because it directs users to your website and online services; without it, your customers cannot find you online.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against cyber threats?
It employs advanced security measures including DDoS mitigation and DNSSEC support to protect against common attacks like spoofing and cache poisoning. This ensures your domain remains resolvable and your services are available.
Is this service suitable for small businesses?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for businesses of all sizes, including SMBs. It provides enterprise-grade DNS security and reliability without the complexity or cost of managing your own 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.