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How can the state protect citizens from cyber and terror attacks?

It is the first duty of a government to protect its citizens.

But the Prime Minister's former national security adviser - Sir Mark Lyall Grant - says the government can "no longer keep its citizens safe" from cyber attacks and terrorism.

He told a Lords committee that the state was increasingly asking companies and individuals to do their bit.

Kristiina Cooper reports.

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