diff --git a/lib/raven/configuration.rb b/lib/raven/configuration.rb
index aee2e7863..cdbc436e0 100644
--- a/lib/raven/configuration.rb
+++ b/lib/raven/configuration.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'certifi'
 require 'logger'
 require 'uri'
 
@@ -58,6 +59,9 @@ class Configuration
     # Should the SSL certificate of the server be verified?
     attr_accessor :ssl_verification
 
+    # The path to the SSL certificate file
+    attr_accessor :ssl_ca_file
+
     # SSl settings passed direactly to faraday's ssl option
     attr_accessor :ssl
 
@@ -113,7 +117,8 @@ def initialize
       self.send_modules = true
       self.excluded_exceptions = IGNORE_DEFAULT
       self.processors = [Raven::Processor::RemoveCircularReferences, Raven::Processor::UTF8Conversion, Raven::Processor::SanitizeData]
-      self.ssl_verification = false
+      self.ssl_verification = true
+      self.ssl_ca_file = Certifi.where
       self.encoding = 'gzip'
       self.timeout = 1
       self.open_timeout = 1
diff --git a/lib/raven/transports/http.rb b/lib/raven/transports/http.rb
index a82fbe7d2..06e68b3de 100644
--- a/lib/raven/transports/http.rb
+++ b/lib/raven/transports/http.rb
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ def conn
 
           ssl_configuration = self.configuration.ssl || {}
           ssl_configuration[:verify] = self.configuration.ssl_verification
+          ssl_configuration[:ca_file] = self.configuration.ssl_ca_file
 
           conn = Faraday.new(
             :url => self.configuration[:server],
diff --git a/sentry-raven.gemspec b/sentry-raven.gemspec
index 0ab3435fb..d2399ba6f 100644
--- a/sentry-raven.gemspec
+++ b/sentry-raven.gemspec
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.license = 'Apache-2.0'
 
   gem.add_dependency "faraday", ">= 0.7.6"
+  gem.add_dependency "certifi"
 
   gem.add_development_dependency "rake"
   gem.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 3.0"