Featured Integration – ACME Proxy

Certbot ACME Proxy

Securely Automate Certificate Renewal at Scale

Managing certificates at scale shouldn’t be complex or risky. The Forum Sentry ACME Proxy feature delivers secure, fully automated certificate issuance and renewal—while giving your organization centralized control, visibility, and compliance.

Shorter certificate lifecycles aren’t a future concern—they’re an industry reality. By adopting automated renewal through ACME and enforcing it centrally with an ACME Proxy, organizations can stay compliant, reduce risk, and scale securely as industry requirements continue to evolve

ACME PROXY
Secure ACME Proxy Architecture

The Forum Sentry ACME proxy provides a secure, controlled gateway between your environments and external certificate authorities.

Key benefits include:

  • Reduced Attack Surface
    Keep certificate authority access off your internal networks by routing all ACME traffic through a hardened proxy.

  • Credential Protection
    Centralize and safeguard ACME account credentials and private key handling to minimize risk.

  • Controlled Network Access
    Simplify firewall rules and outbound access by limiting CA connectivity to a single, trusted endpoint.

ACME governance

Centralized Policy and Governance

Enforce consistent certificate standards across all applications, services, and environments:

  • Define approved key sizes, algorithms, and certificate lifetimes

  • Apply naming conventions and issuance policies automatically

  • Prevent misconfigurations and unauthorized certificate requests

  • Gain centralized logging, auditing, and reporting

  • Add your own API calls to customize the governance enforcement

This ensures every certificate aligns with security, compliance, and organizational standards—without slowing teams down.

ACME Performance

Built for Scale and Simplicity

Designed for modern, distributed environments, the Forum Sentry ACME proxy scales effortlessly:

  • Support thousands of certificates across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments

  • Simplify client configuration with a single internal ACME endpoint

  • Improve reliability with centralized control and monitoring

  • Automate the HTTP-01 certificate checks with wildcard DNS

ACME PROXY FEATURES

Transport Security

Protocol break Built-in PKI engine FIPS 140-2 TLS 1.2 ciphers Protocol translation

Message Security

Bi-directional transaction correlation Full payload contextual analysis

Threat Mitigation

AV and malware scanning OWASP top 10 protection RegEx pattern engine Rate and size SLA control

Data Integrity

Request and response schema validation DSIG and DSIG Verification

Data Privacy Assurance

Encryption and Decryption Data encoding or redaction

Authentication and SSO

Conversion of any-to-any PKI Auth, HTTP Auth, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Custom identity token

Data Translation

Header and Body mapping Conversion of XML, JSON Transformation

Auditing

Machine Learning META Data Format AI Logs Full context transaction logging