DigiCert Private End-Entity Certificate
DigiCert Private End-Entity Certificates provide robust security for your internal digital assets, ensuring trusted communication and authentication across your organization.
- Extended Coverage: Secures internal applications, devices, and services not exposed to the public internet.
- Enhanced Trust: Establishes a trusted identity for internal systems, preventing unauthorized access and man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Streamlined Management: Simplifies the issuance and management of digital certificates for your private infrastructure.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet internal security policies and regulatory requirements for data protection and access control.
Product Overview
Product Overview
DigiCert Private End-Entity Certificates are designed to secure your organization's internal digital infrastructure. These certificates provide a trusted identity for devices, applications, and services that operate exclusively within your private network, ensuring secure communication and authentication without relying on public trust anchors.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to manage and secure their internal systems. It integrates into existing network environments, providing a foundational layer of security for internal operations, data access, and application integrity.
- Private PKI Management: Enables the creation and management of your own private Public Key Infrastructure.
- Internal Device Authentication: Secures communication and authentication for internal servers, workstations, and IoT devices.
- Application Security: Protects internal web applications, APIs, and microservices from unauthorized access.
- Customizable Policies: Allows for the definition of specific certificate policies tailored to your organization's security needs.
- Simplified Deployment: Facilitates the issuance and deployment of certificates across your internal network.
Secure your internal digital landscape with DigiCert Private End-Entity Certificates, offering enterprise-grade security tailored for SMB and mid-market operational needs.
What This Solves
Secure Internal Application Access
Enable teams to secure access to internal web applications and APIs. This ensures that only authenticated users and systems can interact with sensitive internal resources, preventing data breaches.
Internal web portals, private APIs, microservices architecture, secure internal data access
Authenticate Internal Devices
Streamline the authentication of internal devices such as servers, workstations, and IoT endpoints. This establishes a trusted identity for each device, improving network security and preventing unauthorized connections.
Server authentication, workstation identity, IoT device security, network access control
Automate Certificate Management
Automate the issuance, renewal, and revocation of digital certificates for your private infrastructure. This reduces manual overhead and minimizes the risk of expired or mismanaged certificates.
Private PKI operations, certificate lifecycle management, internal IT automation, security policy enforcement
Key Features
Private Certificate Authority
Establish and manage your own trusted root for internal certificate issuance, providing complete control over your security infrastructure.
End-Entity Certificate Issuance
Issue digital certificates for servers, clients, and devices within your private network, ensuring secure authentication and communication.
Customizable Certificate Policies
Define and enforce specific certificate attributes and lifecycles that align with your organization's unique security requirements.
Simplified Deployment and Management
Reduce the complexity of managing digital certificates for internal assets through streamlined issuance and deployment processes.
Enhanced Security Posture
Strengthen your overall security by ensuring that all internal digital interactions are authenticated and encrypted, mitigating risks of internal threats.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security for internal systems handling sensitive customer data and transactions, making private PKI essential for compliance and trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect patient health information (PHI) and comply with regulations like HIPAA, necessitating secure internal communication and access controls.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often rely on secure communication between operational technology (OT) and IT systems, where private certificates can authenticate devices and ensure data integrity.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client information and require robust security for internal document management and communication systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Private End-Entity Certificate?
A Private End-Entity Certificate is a digital certificate issued from a private Certificate Authority (CA) that you control. It's used to authenticate and secure devices, applications, or users within your organization's private network, rather than for public-facing websites.
Who typically uses Private End-Entity Certificates?
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies use these certificates to secure internal systems. This includes securing internal web applications, authenticating servers and workstations, and protecting data in transit within their private network.
How does this differ from a public SSL/TLS certificate?
Public SSL/TLS certificates are issued by trusted public CAs and are used to secure public websites. Private End-Entity Certificates are issued by your own private CA and are intended solely for use within your organization's internal network, providing security for internal-only resources.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.