Thanks for the detailed response—lots of good points here. IT's main concern is blocking any external traffic from hitting local machines, even if tunneled or

Thanks for the detailed response—lots of good points here. IT's main concern is blocking any external traffic from hitting local machines, even if tunneled or encrypted. Outbound traffic is generally fine, but many external platforms require direct URLs for real-time webhooks, which makes solutions like ngrok hard to replace. Polling an external queue from the LAN is an interesting idea—I’ll check if IT might allow that. Long-lived tunnels like SSH or Cloudflare are probably a no-go given their restrictions. So far, no comments regarding compliance or privacy. Thanks again for the input!