Over three quarters of UK workforce lack basic cyber training 11th October 2019

There is 77% of UK workers that admit that they have never received any form of cyber skills training from their employer, according to a new study from Centrify, a leading provider of cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege to secure modern enterprises. The news comes at the start of European Union’s CyberSecMonth, designed to raise awareness of cybersecurity threats, promote cybersecurity among citizens and organisations; and provide resources to protect themselves online, through education and sharing of good practices.

Mouser Electronics and celebrity engineer Grant Imahara have released the second video in the Engineering Big Ideas series, part of Mouser’s award-winning Empowering Innovation Together program. In the video Mouser and Imahara take viewers along to Milan, Italy, for a visit to Arduino, one of the world’s leading open-source hardware and software ecosystems.

The microprocessor market’s string of nine straight record-high annual sales between 2010 and 2018 is expected to end this year with worldwide MPU revenue dropping four percent to about $77.3bn because of weakness in smartphone shipments, excess inventories in data centre computers, and the global fallout from the US-China trade war, according to IC Insights. 

The British Safety Council has called on employers to safeguard their workforce’s mental health and to invest in workplace wellbeing. On the eve of World Mental Health Day, held on 10 October, the British Safety Council is calling on the government and businesses to invest in prevention to tackle mental ill-health at work. 

STMicroelectronics has announced the full details of its common share repurchase program disclosed via a press release dated November 5th, 2018. The program was approved by a shareholder resolution dated May 31, 2018 and by the supervisory board.

Digi-Key has forged a partnership with Analog Devices to offer its new MeasureWare platform. This will allow Digi-Key customers to kickstart designs by providing immediate access to availability and pricing of qualifying products.

According to a nationwide OnePoll survey commissioned by the Institute of Coding, 70% of young people believe that the digital sector is run entirely by those that are of white, British ethnicity. The Institute of Coding, is the government-funded national consortium of educators and employers dedicated to solving the digital skills crisis, and the nationwide poll of 1,000 16-18 year olds also found that more than half want more diversity (56%). At the same time over a third (34%) agree that there are unequal opportunities for women in this sector.

Nearly 10,000 (9,381) businesses have been set up by entrepreneurs over the age of 60 in the past twelve months, with eleven founders in 2019 being over the age of 90, according to the latest Companies House statistical research by carried out by Countingup.