A global provider of financial self-service, payment, and retail banking infrastructure delivers secure, connected transaction experiences across PCI-DSS–certified data centers worldwide. As digital trust expanded across these platforms, manual certificate handling became a growing operational risk. Thousands of distributed devices—including ATMs and point-of-sale systems—required secure communication and authentication, yet managing certificates manually consumed valuable engineering time and introduced compliance exposure. The organization required a unified, automated approach to certificate lifecycle management that could scale globally while ensuring security, availability, and regulatory compliance.