Case Study: University of Waterloo secures high-volume SSL/TLS certificate management with GlobalSign

How Globalsign Is Powering High-volume Ssl/tls Certificate Management for the University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo, a prestigious Canadian university, needed to secure connections to its vast network of web servers and applications for thousands of users. Their internal certificate authority could not scale to manage the hundreds of required SSL/TLS certificates, and they required a solution that would allow individual faculty IT teams to issue certificates autonomously. They turned to GlobalSign and its Managed SSL Platform to address this challenge.

GlobalSign's solution provided the university with unlimited Organization Validated and Intranet SSL/TLS certificates, enabling on-demand issuance and management. This allowed central and faculty-level IT teams to efficiently scale security across the university's digital presence. The solution’s success led to an expanded use of GlobalSign services, including code signing and S/MIME certificates, further securing software and email communications across campus.

University of Waterloo

Mike Patterson

Manager