Secure remote portal access
Portal Hound: Secure U.S. access for your global team
Portal Hound gives an authorized remote team controlled, auditable access to the specific web portals they work in, through one fixed U.S. address your company owns. Every request is tied to a named worker and logged; everything else stays on the worker's own connection. It is not a VPN and never decrypts traffic.
What Portal Hound does
- Approved portals only. Every destination is blocked by default. Only the exact domains you approve can be reached through the gateway.
- Never decrypted. Connections stay encrypted end to end between the worker's browser and the portal. The gateway doesn't read, store or cache page content.
- One identity per worker. Each worker gets their own credentials, created on and tied to their own computer. Revoke one person instantly without affecting anyone else.
- A record of every request. See which worker reached which site, and whether it was allowed. No page contents, form data or full web addresses are recorded.
- One known, company-owned exit. All portal traffic leaves from a single U.S. address your company controls, so access is consistent, attributable and straightforward to describe to the companies whose portals you use.
- Dedicated to your company. Your own gateway, sign-in pool and access records, run for you on AWS in the U.S. and never shared with another customer. Enterprise plans can run it in your own AWS account.
- One button for workers. Workers install a small app for Windows or Mac, sign in with their work email, and press Connect. Nothing to configure.
Who it's for
Operations managers running offshore or remote teams that work inside other companies' systems: vendor portals, customer systems, bank and government sites, insurer portals. You're accountable for every one of those sessions and need to know who reached what, keep personal browsing out of it, and cut access off the moment someone leaves.
How it works
You approve the portals in the admin console (Portal Hound suggests the domains each one needs). Workers press Connect. Only approved portals go through your company's U.S. gateway, and every request is logged. Email, banking and everything else use the worker's own connection. A full VPN sends everything through your company; remote desktops are slow and cost a lot per seat; shared logins and consumer VPNs leave no record. Portal Hound is the narrow middle.
Questions people ask
Is Portal Hound a VPN?
No. The gateway can't route general traffic and never sees what's on the page. Only the exact portal domains you approve go through it.
Can the gateway read what workers do on a portal?
No. Connections stay encrypted end to end. The access record shows which worker reached which site and whether it was allowed, but no page contents, form data or full web addresses.
What happens when someone leaves?
Revoke that one person instantly without affecting anyone else. Emergency lockdown turns off every worker's access at once, and restores it when you're ready.
Where does it run?
On AWS in the U.S., dedicated to your company. Enterprise plans can run it in your own AWS account.
Guides
- Secure portal access for offshore teams: VPN vs virtual desktop vs a portal gateway — How to give a remote or offshore team access to U.S. web portals without a full VPN, a costly virtual desktop or shared logins, and what an auditable, portal-only gateway looks like.
Portal Hound is made by Quill Hound. Details on this page come from portalhound.com, which is the authoritative description of the product and its pricing.