Exciting news – DigiCert’s acquisition of Vercara is closed! The move makes a ton of sense and creates many opportunities. Vercara’s extensive enterprise portfolio of authoritative DNS, protective DNS, DDoS, Web Application and API Protection services naturally complements DigiCert’s market-leading digital certificate, PKI management, and broad market authoritative DNS solutions. DigiCert’s brand recognition, organizational scale, and global reach will provide Vercara with a platform to accelerate its continued growth and innovation.
Vercara and DigiCert create new opportunities.
The similarities between DigiCert and Vercara pave a smooth path to integration. Both companies have a long history of delivering valuable, resilient, and trusted solutions to large, complex, mission-critical environments. We are both trusted by the world’s largest brands across all business sectors. DigiCert and Vercara even have complementary goals and aspirations. DigiCert’s mission is to solve the challenges of digital trust in today’s rapidly evolving connected ecosystem, and Vercara’s mission is to ensure our customers’ success by relentlessly safeguarding their online presence.
The acquisition puts DigiCert in a stronger position to address customers’ needs and reduce complexity, by providing a comprehensive set of services for protecting their digital presence. DigiCert can now deliver an even more complete set of solutions to secure and protect their existing application environment and digital infrastructure, as well as bring new applications to market. Digging deeper into the technology synergies, a number of interesting and exciting opportunities emerge for future innovation.
Synergies drive future innovation and growth.
The combined authoritative DNS services of UltraDNS, Constellix, and DNS Made Easy bring the best DNS minds together to drive market-leading innovation. All of these solutions offer broad capabilities, scale, resilience, and global presence. UltraDNS has been a highly respected DNS service over the last 20 years and caters to the needs of large, mission-critical organizations. It offers advanced traffic management, global load balancing, flexible reporting, operational and DevOps integration points, and expert customer service. Constellix and DNS Made Easy are also respected, have been consistently at the forefront of DNS innovation, have delivered high reliability to their customers, and bring extensive easy-to-use capabilities and broad market applicability.
There is a close relationship between digital certificate management and authoritative DNS. As new domains are brought to market, it is necessary to establish ownership for that domain before new certificates can be issued. Authoritative DNS is one of the primary ways that organizations prove their domain ownership for digital certificates since they already have a chain of trust established for the domain. An authorization code is created as a text record for the domain in authoritative DNS so that the digital signing authority can verify that the company that owns the domain is the one requesting the certificate. Since DigiCert will bring together the digital signing authentication and authoritative DNS, it can create turn-key solutions for customers to introduce a new domain, verify ownership automatically, and get a certificate for that domain.
Adding Vercara’s DDoS protection and application security solutions into the mix will further create opportunities for operational efficiencies and integrations. Businesses often manage complex and ever-changing application environments. When new applications are developed, they typically go through several stages of prototyping, lab testing, pre-production, and production deployment. In many of these steps, the application and its APIs may be exposed to the internet, may have access to sensitive data, and will require a digital certificate. Security controls for the applications have to be put in place, including WAF, API security, and bot protection, each of which may require digital certificates. The expanded DigiCert portfolio will address all of these areas, providing the opportunity to create a simplified application management ecosystem that is sorely needed in the market.
There is a lot to be excited about as Vercara joins the DigiCert family. By having solutions to ensure digital trust and secure customers’ online presence, DigiCert has a significant opportunity to streamline solutions and simplify operations for its customers. Let the innovation begin.
