DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides critical protection for your domain name system, safeguarding your online presence against common threats and ensuring continuous availability.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against DNS spoofing and denial-of-service attacks that can disrupt business operations.
- Reliable Performance: Protection against unauthorized changes and malicious activity that could compromise website accessibility.
- Simplified Management: Entitlement to tools that help manage DNS records efficiently, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
- Proactive Monitoring: Access to alerts for suspicious activity, enabling swift response to potential security incidents.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service designed to protect and manage your organization's critical DNS infrastructure. It offers essential security features to defend against common cyber threats targeting domain name resolution, ensuring your online services remain accessible and trustworthy.
This service is ideal for Business Owners, IT Managers, and IT Professionals in small to mid-market companies who need to secure their public-facing websites and internal domain services without the complexity of enterprise-level infrastructure.
- DNS Security: Defends against DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and denial-of-service attacks.
- Availability Assurance: Minimizes downtime by protecting against unauthorized DNS record modifications.
- Performance Optimization: Helps ensure fast and reliable domain name resolution for end-users.
- Simplified Control: Provides a centralized platform for managing DNS records and security settings.
- Threat Detection: Offers proactive monitoring and alerts for suspicious DNS activity.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers essential security and reliability for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking to protect their online identity.
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 like spoofing and denial-of-service. Streamline the management of DNS records to ensure consistent availability and prevent disruptions to customer access.
Businesses with public websites, organizations relying on online services, companies managing multiple domain names, environments with limited IT security staff
Protect against unauthorized DNS record changes
Automate the monitoring and protection of critical DNS records against unauthorized modifications that could redirect traffic or disable services. Provide proactive alerts for suspicious activity, allowing for rapid incident response and mitigation.
Companies with e-commerce operations, organizations handling sensitive customer data, businesses with strict uptime requirements, environments requiring compliance with security standards
Enhance online brand reputation and trust
Streamline the process of maintaining DNS integrity, which is crucial for building and maintaining customer trust in your online brand. Ensure that users consistently reach the correct website or service, preventing reputational damage from redirection or downtime.
Customer-facing businesses, organizations with significant online brand presence, companies operating in competitive markets, businesses focused on customer experience
Key Features
DNS Security Protection
Defends against common DNS attacks like spoofing and DDoS, ensuring your domain name resolution is secure and reliable.
High Availability
Minimizes downtime by protecting against unauthorized changes and ensuring continuous access to your online services.
Proactive Monitoring & Alerts
Provides early warnings of suspicious activity, enabling swift response to potential threats and security incidents.
Simplified DNS Management
Offers a centralized platform for managing DNS records and security settings, reducing complexity and manual effort.
Global Infrastructure
Leverages DigiCert's secure infrastructure to ensure fast and reliable DNS resolution worldwide.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and high availability for online banking, trading platforms, and customer portals to maintain trust and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records (EHR), and telehealth services, while adhering to HIPAA compliance and protecting sensitive patient data from breaches.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely heavily on online presence for sales, bookings, and customer engagement; maintaining website uptime and security is critical to 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, often under strict data privacy rules.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DNS and why is it important to secure?
DNS, or Domain Name System, translates human-readable website names (like zentnetworks.com) into machine-readable IP addresses. Securing DNS is vital because attacks targeting it can disrupt access to your website, steal data, or redirect users to malicious sites, impacting your business operations and reputation.
What types of threats does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against?
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides protection against common threats such as DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that target the DNS infrastructure. It helps ensure the integrity and availability of your domain name resolution.
Is this service suitable for small businesses?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for small to mid-market businesses. It offers essential DNS security features in an easy-to-manage cloud service, providing enterprise-level protection without the complexity or cost of managing it in-house.
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.