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Secure Email (S/MIME) certificates

S/MIME certificates for end-to-end email security at any scale

Secure Email (S/MIME) certificates

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Whether you’re looking to secure your personal email or safeguard the communications of a global corporation, a Secure Email subscription from provides the end-to-end encryption you need to prevent phishing, tampering and man-in-the-middle attacks.

The S/MIME certificate included in your Secure Email plan ensures every message you or your employees send or receive travels safely from outbox to inbox, offering reassurance that the contents haven’t been manipulated in any way.

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  • 24x5 Standard Support
  • Automated certificate request and delivery
  • CertCentral certificate management platform
  • Supported by Gmail, Yahoo and all major email services
  • Compatible with email apps like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail

Secure Email (S/MIME) certificates

Secure Email (S/MIME) Product Image

Whether you’re looking to secure your personal email or safeguard the communications of a global corporation, a Secure Email subscription from provides the end-to-end encryption you need to prevent phishing, tampering and man-in-the-middle attacks.

The S/MIME certificate included in your Secure Email plan ensures every message you or your employees send or receive travels safely from outbox to inbox, offering reassurance that the contents haven’t been manipulated in any way.

Read More >
  • 24x5 Standard Support
  • Automated certificate request and delivery
  • CertCentral certificate management platform
  • Supported by Gmail, Yahoo and all major email services
  • Compatible with email apps like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail

Secure Email (S/MIME) certificates

Secure Email (S/MIME) Product Image

Whether you’re looking to secure your personal email or safeguard the communications of a global corporation, a Secure Email subscription from provides the end-to-end encryption you need to prevent phishing, tampering and man-in-the-middle attacks.

The S/MIME certificate included in your Secure Email plan ensures every message you or your employees send or receive travels safely from outbox to inbox, offering reassurance that the contents haven’t been manipulated in any way.

Read More >
  • 24x5 Standard Support
  • Automated certificate request and delivery
  • CertCentral certificate management platform
  • Supported by Gmail, Yahoo and all major email services
  • Compatible with email apps like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail
Secure Email (S/MIME) certificates

Features

Solutions for every use case

Secure Email combines the strength of S/MIME signing and encryption with the flexibility you need to support different email use cases, compliance programs and security requirements.

Secure Email for Individual

Perfect for personal accounts or for small businesses that use a shared email platform like Google.

Secure Email for Business

For businesses that need to guarantee the authenticity of their email users and the messages they send, Secure Email for Business offers employee subscriptions for individual employees (i.e., jane.doe@example.com), as well as group subscriptions for corporate or shared email addresses (info@example.com).

Specifications

  • IETF Compliant EKU
  • Meets CA/B Forum standards
  • Enables mailbox-validated, individual-validated, organization-validated
  • and sponsor-validated signatures

Use cases

S/MIME Certificates are the ideal solution for individuals and organizations seeking to improve email security and visibility, including:

  • Meeting stringent compliance and/or regulatory environments
  • Protecting company data and IP
  • Insulating users from phishing and spoofing attacks
  • Improving user trust
  • Securing sensitive data in transit
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Frequently Asked Questions


An S/MIME certificate provides you with a public and private key pair. Your secret private key signs your sent messages and decrypts messages sent to you. The public key is shared so people receiving your messages can verify your signature, and it encrypts messages so only you can read them.


As part of phishing schemes, attackers often spoof company emails, sending malicious messages that appear to originate from the company or even from individual employees. Most companies don’t know when attackers are doing this, but when customers get scammed, the organization is left with less business and more support costs and fraud losses.


Several industries require the encryption of sensitive data in email, including healthcare, insurance, retail and the defense industrial base. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), for example, requires cardholder data to be rendered unreadable wherever it’s stored—and encryption is one way to meet this standard.


A Certificate signing Request (CSR) is an encoded file that provides you with a to send your public key as well as some information that identifies your company and domain name.

We highly recommend generating a CSR before you place your order.


DigCert certificate subscriptions allow you the flexibility to easily replace or reconfigure certificates and other licensed products, simplify budgeting by annualizing the fees associated with your certificates, and automate license renewals for streamlined certificate lifecycle management.

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