diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/OpenSSL/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/OpenSSL/tasks/main.yml
index d28e434713..c99957b1ac 100644
--- a/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/OpenSSL/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/OpenSSL/tasks/main.yml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     dest: /tmp/openssl-{{ openssl_latest }}.tar.gz
     force: no
     mode: 0755
-    validate_certs: no
+    validate_certs: yes
   when:
     - (ansible_distribution == "RedHat" or ansible_distribution == "CentOS" or ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu" or ansible_distribution == "SLES")
     - ansible_architecture == "x86_64"