DigiCert Private Intermediate CA
Establish a trusted root of trust for your internal digital certificates with the DigiCert Private Intermediate CA, ensuring secure authentication and data integrity across your organization's infrastructure.
- Extended Coverage: Provides a dedicated intermediate CA for issuing and managing your organization's internal digital certificates.
- Enhanced Security: Strengthens your Public Key Infrastructure PKI by establishing a private, controlled certificate authority.
- Streamlined Operations: Simplifies the process of issuing and revoking internal certificates for employees, devices, and applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory and internal policy requirements for secure identity management and data protection.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The DigiCert Private Intermediate CA is a subscription-based solution that allows organizations to establish and manage their own private Certificate Authority. This service provides the foundational infrastructure for issuing and controlling internal digital certificates, ensuring that all internal communications and data exchanges are authenticated and encrypted.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who need to secure their internal network, applications, and devices. It integrates into existing IT environments, providing a scalable and manageable way to handle certificate lifecycle management without the complexity of managing a full public CA.
- Private Certificate Issuance: Enables the creation and management of your own intermediate Certificate Authority.
- Secure Identity Management: Issues trusted digital certificates for internal users, servers, and applications.
- Policy Enforcement: Allows customization of certificate policies to align with organizational security standards.
- Scalable Infrastructure: Provides a foundation for growing certificate needs as your organization expands.
- Simplified Management: Offers tools and processes for efficient certificate issuance, renewal, and revocation.
Secure your internal digital landscape with a dedicated private CA, offering robust control and trusted identities for your business operations.
What This Solves
Establish Trusted Internal Certificate Authority
Enable teams to create and manage a private intermediate Certificate Authority for issuing internal digital certificates. Streamline the process of securing internal communications and authenticating devices and applications with trusted identities.
On-premises server deployments, private cloud environments, internal application security, device authentication
Secure Internal Application Communication
Automate the issuance of SSL/TLS certificates for internal web servers and applications, ensuring encrypted data transfer. Protect sensitive internal data by enforcing secure connections between services and users.
Internal web portals, API security, microservices communication, data encryption
Manage Device and User Identities Internally
Provide secure authentication for internal devices and user access through custom-issued digital certificates. Enhance security policies by ensuring only authorized and verified entities can access internal resources.
Network access control, VPN authentication, endpoint security, privileged access management
Key Features
Private Intermediate CA Issuance
Gain complete control over your internal certificate issuance process, reducing reliance on external providers for internal needs.
Customizable Certificate Policies
Define and enforce specific security parameters and validity periods for your internal certificates to match your organization's risk appetite.
Secure Certificate Lifecycle Management
Efficiently manage the entire lifecycle of your internal certificates, from issuance and renewal to revocation, ensuring ongoing security.
Enhanced Internal Security Posture
Strengthen your organization's security by ensuring all internal digital communications and identities are authenticated and encrypted.
Subscription-Based Model
Benefit from predictable costs and scalable access to private CA capabilities without significant upfront infrastructure investment.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security for internal data and transactions, making a private CA essential for securing internal communications and systems against sophisticated threats.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data and must comply with regulations like HIPAA, necessitating secure internal systems and trusted digital identities for access control and data protection.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often rely on secure communication between operational technology OT systems and IT networks, where a private CA can ensure the integrity and authenticity of device communications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies manage highly confidential client information, requiring robust internal security measures to protect data and ensure secure client-facing portals and internal communications.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Private Intermediate CA?
A Private Intermediate CA is a certificate authority that is subordinate to a root CA. In this case, it allows your organization to issue and manage its own trusted digital certificates for internal use, separate from public certificate authorities.
Who is the target audience for this product?
This product is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-sized businesses that require a secure and controlled method for managing internal digital certificates and ensuring the integrity of their private network infrastructure.
How does this differ from a public CA?
Public CAs issue certificates trusted by the general internet. A Private Intermediate CA issues certificates trusted only within your organization's network, providing a secure and cost-effective solution for internal security needs.
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.