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PODCAST: Why suppliers could be a big source of cyber vulnerability, and how legal competition might stifle innovation

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28 Oct 2025, 4:39 pm

As new figures show that UK cyber attacks are getting more serious Simon Colvin explains how to deal with the vulnerabilities in your supply chain, while David Halliwell applies some Nobel-winning counter-intuition to the economics of legal services.

 

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