Unauthorized third-party software integrations on client networks
Vendors or employees install third-party applications onto client systems without permission or knowledge, triggering severe privacy violations and client panic. This leaves managed service providers facing furious clients, threats of legal action, and a breakdown of trust while scrambling to figure out how the software was introduced.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Investigating logs and tracing links to AWS
- 2Feeding email templates into an AI engine to identify the source software
- 3Using built-in maintenance reports from the copier to send out emails instead
- 4Having the client sign a release of liability to proceed
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Now we've got pissed off users that are creeped out and threatening to quit/sue the company. They're all blaming us. We're blaming them. We still don't know who set this up or how or why. And on a damn Friday too.”source ↗
Where this came up
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