By dragging their heels, they do more harm to their future success than Internet security problems would be likely to cause. Insider Threats Even with the onslaught of crackers, system penetration by outside parties has increased 32 percent since 1998, according to Internet security expert Mark D. Rasch's Senate testimony in February 2000. The primary source of attacks is the disgruntled insider. In the retail industry, it's a long-known fact that the biggest source of theft is from employees. That's the risk.
Any firm has the potential for malicious acts from the inside.
On many occasions, he said, his firm has been called in to restore or track information employees have destroyed or attempted to destroy. Law firms face more significant, easily thwarted threats than viruses. Internal security should be a concern since most security breaches are inside jobs. Small Firm's Security Tactics Davis observed that size does make a difference when it comes to law firms' Internet security measures. His firm does have a firewall on its server, uses anti-virus software on all machines, locks out all client machines from outside parties, uses the most recent Microsoft security fixes and tries, in general, to exercise caution where needed.