DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides critical protection for your domain name system, safeguarding your online presence against threats for a full year.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage against common DNS attacks like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning.
- Improved Reliability: Protection against DDoS attacks targeting DNS infrastructure, ensuring continuous uptime.
- Simplified Management: Streamlined DNS record management for easier control and configuration.
- Proactive Monitoring: Entitlement to alerts for suspicious DNS activity, enabling rapid response.
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 targeting domain name resolution, ensuring your websites and online services remain accessible and trustworthy.
This service is ideal for Business Owners, IT Managers, and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to protect their online brand identity and ensure consistent access to their digital assets. It integrates with existing domain registrations and web hosting environments.
- Secure DNS Resolution: Protects against DNS hijacking, spoofing, and cache poisoning.
- DDoS Mitigation: Defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks aimed at DNS servers.
- Always-On Availability: Ensures your domain names consistently resolve to the correct IP addresses.
- Simplified Control: Centralized management of DNS records for multiple domains.
- Brand Protection: Safeguards your online reputation by preventing domain impersonation.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers essential security and reliability for businesses seeking to protect 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-specific attacks. Streamline the management of DNS records for multiple domains, reducing administrative overhead and potential for human error.
businesses with public websites, e-commerce operations, cloud-hosted applications, multi-domain portfolios
Mitigate risks of DNS hijacking and spoofing
Automate the defense against malicious attempts to redirect traffic away from legitimate websites or services. Protect against brand impersonation and phishing attacks that rely on DNS manipulation.
companies with strong brand reputation, regulated industries, customer-facing portals, sensitive data access
Ensure continuous online service availability
Support business continuity by defending DNS infrastructure against denial-of-service attacks. Maintain consistent access for customers and partners to critical online resources and applications.
operations requiring high availability, businesses with global customer bases, service providers, critical infrastructure
Key Features
Managed DNS Infrastructure
Ensures your domain names consistently resolve to the correct IP addresses, providing reliable access to your online assets.
DDoS Protection for DNS
Defends your domain resolution services against distributed denial-of-service attacks, preventing service disruptions.
DNS Security Features
Protects against DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and hijacking, safeguarding your brand and customer trust.
Centralized Record Management
Simplifies the administration of DNS records across multiple domains from a single, intuitive interface.
Proactive Monitoring and Alerting
Provides timely notifications of suspicious DNS activity, enabling swift incident response.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high levels of security and uptime to protect sensitive data and maintain customer trust, making robust DNS protection essential for compliance and operational integrity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records, and critical services, where DNS reliability is paramount for patient care and regulatory compliance like HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely heavily on online presence for sales, bookings, and customer engagement; any disruption to their DNS can lead to immediate revenue loss and reputational damage.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and require secure, uninterrupted access to their online platforms to maintain client confidentiality and business operations.
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 crucial because attacks on it can redirect users to malicious sites, disrupt service availability, and damage your brand's reputation.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against DDoS attacks?
DigiCert DNS Essentials utilizes distributed infrastructure and traffic scrubbing techniques to absorb and mitigate the impact of DDoS attacks targeting your DNS queries, ensuring your domain remains resolvable.
Can this service manage multiple domain names?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed to manage DNS records for multiple domain names from a single, centralized platform, simplifying administration for organizations with diverse online assets.
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.