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Web certificates are a foundational element of website security, enabling organizations to verify that the web address in question really does belong to them. The O2 crisis in Europe was caused by an expired certificate tied to a piece of software. Fortunately, the rise of tools like the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) have made the task of automatically managing web certificates significantly easier, even in uncertain times. ACME tools enable fully automated key generation, domain control validation, certificate creation, and installation to the server.