DigiCert DNS Essentials
DigiCert DNS Essentials provides critical protection for your domain name system, safeguarding against unauthorized access and ensuring continuous online availability for your business.
- Enhanced Security: Access to advanced DNS security features to prevent attacks like DNS spoofing and cache poisoning.
- Reliable Performance: Coverage for high availability and low latency DNS resolution, minimizing website and application downtime.
- Proactive Monitoring: Protection against emerging threats with continuous monitoring and rapid response capabilities.
- Simplified Management: Entitlement to streamlined DNS management tools for efficient control over your domain configurations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert DNS Essentials is a cloud-based service designed to secure and optimize your organization's Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. It offers robust protection against common and advanced cyber threats targeting DNS, ensuring your online presence remains accessible and trustworthy.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-market companies who need to protect their critical internet-facing assets. It integrates into existing network environments, providing a vital layer of security and performance for websites, applications, and internal services that rely on DNS resolution.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Defends against DDoS attacks, DNS spoofing, cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.
- High Availability DNS: Ensures your domain names are always resolvable, minimizing downtime and maintaining user access.
- Global Performance: Delivers fast and reliable DNS lookups worldwide through a distributed network of servers.
- Simplified Management: Provides an intuitive interface for managing DNS records and security settings.
- Scalable Solution: Adapts to your organization's growth, handling increasing traffic and security demands.
DigiCert DNS Essentials offers essential security and performance for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking reliable DNS operations without enterprise complexity.
What This Solves
Enable secure and reliable website access
Enable teams to protect their public-facing websites from DNS-based attacks, ensuring continuous availability for customers. Streamline DNS resolution to improve website loading speeds and user experience.
eCommerce platforms, corporate websites, SaaS applications, public-facing portals
Protect critical business applications
Streamline the security of internal and external business applications that rely on DNS for access and communication. Automate threat detection and mitigation to prevent disruptions to core business operations.
Internal applications, customer portals, partner access systems, cloud-hosted services
Enhance overall network security posture
Enable teams to fortify their digital infrastructure against sophisticated cyber threats targeting the DNS layer. Automate responses to security incidents, reducing manual intervention and potential for error.
Hybrid cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, multi-site organizations
Key Features
Distributed Anycast Network
Ensures fast, reliable DNS resolution globally, reducing latency and improving user experience for your online services.
DDoS Mitigation for DNS
Protects your domain from distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting DNS infrastructure, preventing downtime and service disruption.
DNSSEC Support
Provides cryptographic authentication of DNS data, protecting against DNS spoofing and cache poisoning attacks.
Managed DNS Infrastructure
Offloads the complexity of managing and securing DNS servers, allowing your IT team to focus on core business objectives.
Real-time Monitoring and Analytics
Offers visibility into DNS traffic and security events, enabling proactive threat detection and performance optimization.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and secure online services to protect sensitive customer data and maintain trust, making robust DNS protection essential for compliance and operational continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records, and critical applications, where any downtime can have severe consequences for patient care and regulatory compliance.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses depend on constant online availability for e-commerce, booking systems, and customer engagement, where DNS disruptions directly impact revenue and customer satisfaction.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and require secure, reliable access to their systems and client portals to maintain client trust and operational efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DNS and why is it important to secure?
DNS, or Domain Name System, translates human-readable domain names (like www.example.com) into machine-readable IP addresses. Securing DNS is crucial because attacks on it can redirect users to malicious sites, disrupt access to legitimate services, or steal sensitive information.
How does DigiCert DNS Essentials protect against attacks?
It uses a global network of servers, advanced threat detection, and DNSSEC to defend against DDoS attacks, spoofing, cache poisoning, and other malicious activities that target DNS infrastructure.
Is this service suitable for small businesses?
Yes, DigiCert DNS Essentials is designed for businesses of all sizes, including SMBs and mid-market companies, providing enterprise-level DNS security and performance without the associated overhead.
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.