If any of these certificate problems sound familiar, you need centralized ACME control and complete certificate visibility.
Want to know more? Here's the full breakdown of each certificate problem:
Your internal APIs, admin panels, and microservices run with self-signed certificates because "it's just internal". But this creates security warnings, trust issues, and complexity.
The Problem: Self-signed certificates cause browser warnings, break automation tools, and create security blind spots in your internal infrastructure.
The Reality: Internal doesn't mean less important. Your admin.company.com and api.company.com deserve proper certificates too.
AcmeGuard Solution: Get real, trusted certificates for internal services without exposing them to the internet through DNS-01 challenges.
You have a private CA but getting all your devices, containers, and services to trust your CA is hard work. Trust stores, revocation, compatibility issues - it never ends.
The Work Never Stops: Every device, container, and service needs your root CA. Updates mean touching every system. Revocation is a nightmare.
Compatibility Problems: Mobile devices, third-party tools, and cloud services don't trust your private CA. You end up with mixed environments and security exceptions.
AcmeGuard Solution: Use trusted public CAs for internal services through secure ACME proxy. No trust store management needed.
What if api.company.com and admin.company.com had proper certificates without all the work? No more browser warnings, no more trust issues, just clean HTTPS everywhere.
The Dream: Proper certificates for all your internal services without the complexity of private CAs or the risk of internet exposure.
The Benefits: No browser warnings, better automation, cleaner monitoring, and proper security for internal traffic.
AcmeGuard Solution: Real certificates for internal services using DNS-01 validation - no internet exposure required.
That 3 AM wake-up call because someone forgot to renew a certificate and your API is down. Or worse - customers finding your expired certificates before you do.
The Human Problem: Manual certificate management doesn't work at scale. People forget, processes break, and important services go down at the worst times.
The Business Impact: Certificate outages hurt customer trust, cost money, and damage team morale. Often customers discover them before you do.
AcmeGuard Solution: Automated renewal with smart alerts, approval workflows, and complete expiration tracking across all certificates.
New industry rules: 200 days (March 2026), 100 days (March 2027), 47 days (2029). Manual renewal won't work - you need automation now.
The Timeline: The CA/Browser Forum has set firm dates for shorter certificate lifetimes. What used to work with yearly renewals won't work with weekly renewals.
The Impact: Manual processes will break completely. You need automated systems in place before these deadlines hit.
AcmeGuard Solution: Full automation ready for any certificate lifetime. Built to handle 47-day certificates from day one.
Teams are creating services and you find them during security audits or when they break. You need complete visibility of what domains your organization puts on the internet.
The Reality: Every SSL certificate for your domains gets logged in Certificate Transparency. This creates a public record of your entire internet-facing infrastructure.
The Risk: Attackers use CT logs to find your subdomains and services. If you're not watching them, you're missing both opportunities and threats.
AcmeGuard Solution: Continuous CT log monitoring with smart alerts for new certificates across all CAs.
Teams create services with their own certificates, using different CAs and different renewal processes. You discover them during security audits or when they break.
The Problem: Development teams use whatever works fastest. Let's Encrypt, ZeroSSL, cloud provider CAs - each with different lifecycles and management approaches.
The Audit Problem: Security auditors want certificate inventories. You're building spreadsheets from multiple sources, hoping you haven't missed anything important.
AcmeGuard Solution: Central ACME gateway makes sure all certificates go through controlled workflows while teams keep their independence.
Security auditors ask for certificate inventories, compliance frameworks need certificate lifecycle management, and you're manually tracking spreadsheets across multiple teams and CAs.
The Compliance Reality: SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS - all need certificate lifecycle management. Manual tracking doesn't meet audit standards.
The Reporting Problem: Auditors want complete reports: what certificates exist, when they expire, who requested them, what approval process was used.
AcmeGuard Solution: Built-in compliance reporting with detailed audit trails for all certificate lifecycle events.
Why pay $50-200 per certificate when Let's Encrypt is free and just as trusted? Enterprise CAs often provide no additional value for basic SSL certificates.
The Money Problem: When certificates cost $50-200 each, teams avoid using them for internal services, development environments, and microservices.
The Security Trade-off: Budget limits force security compromises. Services run without SSL, use self-signed certificates, or share certificates badly.
AcmeGuard Solution: Use free Let's Encrypt certificates with enterprise governance. Get the best of both worlds - free certificates with professional management.
DevOps, Security, and Platform teams all manage certificates differently. No shared visibility, no consistent policies, no coordination across your certificate landscape.
The Silos Problem: Each team has their own tools, processes, and certificate sources. What works for one team creates problems for others.
The Communication Problem: Security teams don't know what DevOps is deploying. Platform teams can't enforce policies they can't see.
AcmeGuard Solution: Single platform with role-based access controls, team delegation, and central policy enforcement.
If these challenges resonate with your experience, let's talk about how AcmeGuard can solve them.
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