DigiCert Extended Validation SSL Certificate
DigiCert Extended Validation SSL Certificates provide the highest level of identity verification, ensuring maximum trust and security for your business website and customer transactions.
- Extended Validation: Rigorous vetting process confirms your organization's legal, physical, and operational existence.
- Strong Encryption: Utilizes industry-standard 256-bit encryption to protect data in transit.
- Visual Trust Indicator: Displays a prominent padlock and your verified organization name in the browser bar.
- Phishing Prevention: Helps protect customers from fraudulent websites by clearly identifying your legitimate domain.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates offer the strongest assurance of your website's identity, providing a critical layer of trust for your online presence. This certificate undergoes a stringent validation process to confirm your organization's legal, physical, and operational existence, ensuring visitors that they are interacting with a legitimate entity.
This solution is ideal for businesses that handle sensitive customer data, such as e-commerce sites, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and any organization prioritizing customer trust and security. It integrates seamlessly with web servers and is essential for maintaining compliance and protecting against phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Enhanced Trust: The EV green address bar and verified organization name build immediate confidence with visitors.
- Robust Security: Guarantees strong encryption (up to 256-bit) for all data exchanged between the browser and server.
- Identity Assurance: Rigorous validation process verifies your organization's legal and physical identity.
- Malware and Phishing Protection: Helps prevent malicious actors from impersonating your website.
- Broad Compatibility: Works with virtually all modern web browsers and mobile devices.
For businesses prioritizing customer trust and robust online security, a DigiCert EV SSL Certificate is the definitive choice to validate your identity and protect sensitive transactions.
What This Solves
Enable secure online transactions and e-commerce
Enable teams to process customer payments and sensitive data with the highest level of security assurance. Streamline the customer checkout experience by displaying clear indicators of trust and verified identity.
e-commerce websites, online payment gateways, subscription services, retail platforms
Protect sensitive customer information
Protect sensitive customer data such as personal details, login credentials, and financial information from interception and theft. Automate the encryption of all data transmitted between the browser and the web server.
online banking portals, healthcare patient portals, customer account management systems, data submission forms
Build and maintain customer trust
Build and maintain customer trust by clearly displaying your verified organizational identity in the browser bar. Prevent phishing attacks by ensuring visitors can easily distinguish your legitimate website from fraudulent copies.
corporate websites, service provider portals, membership organizations, lead generation sites
Key Features
Extended Validation Process
Confirms your organization's legal, physical, and operational existence, providing the highest level of assurance to your customers.
Strong Encryption (up to 256-bit)
Protects sensitive data transmitted between the user's browser and your web server from eavesdropping and tampering.
Verified Organization Name Display
Displays your verified company name directly in the browser bar, offering immediate visual confirmation of legitimacy.
Prominent Security Indicators
The padlock icon and organization name in the address bar build immediate user confidence and reduce abandonment rates.
Phishing and Malware Protection
Helps prevent malicious actors from impersonating your website, safeguarding your brand reputation and customer trust.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require the highest level of trust and security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making EV SSL a critical component.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and protect patient health information (PHI), necessitating strong encryption and verified identity to ensure data privacy and patient trust.
Retail & Hospitality
E-commerce businesses and online retailers need to assure customers that their payment information and personal data are secure during transactions, directly impacting conversion rates and brand loyalty.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms handling confidential client information need to demonstrate a commitment to security and privacy, building confidence with clients who entrust them with sensitive legal and business matters.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between EV SSL and other SSL certificates?
EV SSL undergoes the most rigorous validation process, verifying your organization's legal, physical, and operational existence. This results in the highest level of trust, often displayed as a green address bar or your verified organization name in the browser.
How long does the EV validation process take?
The validation process typically takes several business days to complete, depending on the thoroughness of the documentation provided and the responsiveness of your organization.
Is an EV SSL certificate necessary for all websites?
While not strictly mandatory for all websites, an EV SSL certificate is highly recommended for e-commerce sites, financial services, healthcare providers, and any business that handles sensitive customer data or wants to establish the highest level of trust and credibility online.
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.