diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/release-monitoring/templates/configmap.yml b/roles/openshift-apps/release-monitoring/templates/configmap.yml
index 0a2f2a0ba8..347d4d3828 100644
--- a/roles/openshift-apps/release-monitoring/templates/configmap.yml
+++ b/roles/openshift-apps/release-monitoring/templates/configmap.yml
@@ -251,7 +251,10 @@ items:
       import socket
       config = {
           "zmq_enabled": True,
+          "active": True,
           "topic_prefix": "org.fedoraproject",
+          "sign_messages": True,
+          "validate_signatures": True,
           "anitya.libraryio.enabled": True,
           "crypto_backend": "x509",
           "ssldir": "/etc/pki/fedmsg/",