DigiCert S/MIME Email Certificates

With S/MIME, you get a private and public key pair. Sent messages get signed by your secret private key, and the same key decrypts messages others send to you. Your shared public key encrypts messages so you’re the only one who can read them. At the same time, people receiving your messages can verify your signature to know the email came from you.

Attackers who spoof company emails as part of phishing schemes send malicious messages that trick users into thinking the email came from the company or even from a specific employee. When attackers succeed at scamming customers, the organization loses business and racks up expenses in fraud losses and support costs. S/MIME makes it much more difficult to successfully launch these spoofing attacks.

Encryption is required in many industries that frequently send sensitive data via email, including retail, insurance, healthcare, and the defense industrial base. One example is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which requires that cardholder data be rendered unreadable anywhere it’s stored. Encryption is a highly effective way to satisfy this standard.

Before you order, we recommend generating a certificate signing request (CSR), an encoded file that offers a standardized way to share your public key with DigiCert, along with information identifying your company and domain name.

DigCert certificate subscriptions give you the ability to easily replace or reconfigure certificates and other licensed products and automate license renewals. Subscriptions also simplify budgeting by annualizing the fees associated with your certificates, streamlining all parts of certificate lifecycle management.