Initial Situation and Challenge
As the validity periods of public SSL/TLS certificates have shortened, manual management of these certificates has become unsustainable for organizations in the long run.
The main challenge was the need to transition to full automation to minimize the risk of human error, certificate expiration, and the service outages associated with them.
Delivered Solution and Its Benefits
Kooperativa deployed our Certificate Lifecycle Management system, which centralizes the management of the entire certificate lifecycle—from issuance through automatic renewal to revocation.
Zero need for administrative intervention:
The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) standard was used for automation, ensuring fully automated issuance and periodic renewal of TLS certificates.
Direct integration with the network infrastructure:
CLM is connected to load balancers via a REST API, ensuring fully automated certificate distribution, import, and activation on individual virtual servers.
Significant cost savings:
Thanks to the implementation of the ACME protocol, the insurance company gained the ability to securely use the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, which results in significant cost savings in the given scenarios.
Operational stability:
The entire solution minimizes the amount of manual work and places maximum emphasis on security and absolute operational stability.
Deploying Certificate Lifecycle Management by Monet+ helped us fully automate processes that used to be highly complex. By utilizing the ACME standard and integrating the REST API directly into our load balancers, we’ve centralized the management of the entire certificate lifecycle with a minimal need for manual intervention. We have thus built a modern, secure, and highly stable operational mechanism that protects our services from downtime associated with the expiration of TLS certificates.
Credit for the successful implementation and development of the solution at Kooperativa goes not only to our developers, but also to our colleagues from Kooperativa’s Communication Technology & Security Operations Department and all the teams involved. Thanks to their efforts, we’ve succeeded in building a modern, secure, and fully automated mechanism for managing digital certificates.