Hide Internal Applications from the Internet

Make Admin Panels and Internal Tools Invisible

The Problem

Internal applications are the soft underbelly of most organizations. Grafana dashboards, Jenkins CI/CD, Kibana logs, admin panels, staging environments — these tools are often exposed to the internet with nothing but a login page protecting them. A login page is an invitation. It tells attackers the application exists, what software it runs, and that credentials are the only barrier. Credential stuffing, brute force, and vulnerability exploitation follow.

The Current Approach

Common approaches to protecting internal applications: 1. **VPN-only access**: Forces all users through a VPN. Adds latency, requires client software, creates a single point of failure. 2. **IP allowlisting**: Only allows access from specific IPs. Breaks for remote workers, is brittle to maintain. 3. **Basic authentication + firewall**: Login page behind firewall rules. Application is still discoverable. 4. **SSO gateway**: Adds identity verification but application endpoints remain visible.

The LayerV Solution

LayerV makes internal applications completely invisible. There is no login page to discover, no endpoint to probe, no indication that the application exists. When an authorized user needs access, they authenticate through Okta and receive a QURL. The application becomes visible only to that user, only for that session. When the session ends, the application vanishes. Unauthorized users — and automated scanners — see nothing. This works for any web-based internal tool: Grafana, Jenkins, Kibana, Confluence, internal dashboards, staging environments, admin panels. Proxy mode deployment takes under an hour — a DNS change and Okta app configuration.

Key Benefits