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Shift Left: Security in a Containerized World
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There has been a movement recently about finding security-related issues earlier in the development and deployment pipeline. It's about catching security issues before things the fan. In this presentation, we will talk about what it means to shift left from the container security point of view.
1. twitter.com/Gunjan_Patel1 Gunjan Patel Shift Left ⬅ Security In a Containerized World github.com/gunjan5
2. Cloud puns Q: Why did the cloud do drugs? A: Atmospheric pressure Son: Dad, what are clouds made up of? Dad: A bunch of Linux servers, son. Sorry…
3. The Technology Adoption Curve Serverless Containers VMs Appliances
4. The Evolution
5. What is Shift Left? • Security is not an On/Off thing, it’s a spectrum • Security as part of SDLC
6. Why do Devs and Ops people like k8s? CODE CODE CODE Make Better Use of Human Time
7. Process then vs process now Code Packaging Infrastructure Design Provision Hosts/ Config Deploy Code Container Image & App Config Deploy
8. Security should not be an afterthought
9. Security VS Developers/DevOps • Low Risk • Process • Formal • Slow and Thoughtful v/s • Try new things • Automate • Informal • Quick, fail fast
10. Where do you place the controls? Container Orchestration Network Host OS Libraries Code Container Orchestration Network Host OS Libraries Code Container Orchestration Network Host OS Libraries Code Container Orchestration Network Host OS Libraries Code Data Center VM in Cloud K8s in Cloud Serverless Securitycontrol
11. Kubernetes Security Concepts Container Escapes Kernel Exploits Seccomp SELinux Pod Security Policies App Policy (istio) Image Scanning Network Policies RBAC Least Privilege OS Hardening Logging
12. Left AND Right
13. Container Security Best Practices Securing the build pipeline: • Verifying the image source (registry) • Using official base images • Locking down access to the image registry (who can push/pull) • Scanning container image layers for CVEs • Tagging and automatically preventing vuln images from running in certain clusters or preventing them from talking to other containers in the cluster Network security: • Securing services that are exposed to the internet using a Firewall • Locking down L3/4 network using NetworkPolicy • Create granular L7 policies using service mesh (such as istio) • Using mTLS to mutually authenticate containerized workloads (e.g. using istio) Securing the host: • OS lock down (like COS) • seccomp to restrict host syscall access from containers • SELinux to further isolate containers
14. Container Security Best Practices Securing container runtimes: • There are multiple container runtimes now: Docker, CRI (CRI-O, CRI-ContainerD), rkt • They all have different operational and security models. It’s important to make sure security configuration spans across container runtimes especially if the environment has multiple container runtimes in the cluster (e.g. different runtimes for orchestrator control plane and workloads) Admission control: • Using policies (example: pod security policy in k8s) to restrict which containers can run in the system for example: • non-privilaged containers • containers that don’t need write access to the file system • containers that don’t need certain syscalls Orchestrator configuration: • Managing orchestrator configuration and workload, service definitions/configurations version controlled (using git) • Cluster level policies (security policies, network policies, etc.) should go through change request and review process
15. Container Security Best Practices Cloud provider: • If you’re running your containers in a cloud, default security configuration (for orchestrator, container runtime, OS) can be different for different cloud providers • It is important to understand the version of orchestrator and container runtime components your cloud provider is running by default • If those components are modified from their open source version Orchestrator: • Orchestrator API access security using RBAC and NetworkPolicies • Be aware of which 3rd party plugins (CNIs, SNIs, CRIs) are running (binary/DaemonSet/controller) and what access do they have. If they’re running as privileged containers • Controlling access to the orchestrator control plane APIs from 3rd party plugins using RBAC, ServiceAccount
16. 200+ SIGNATURES 30+ TOP CONTAINER APPS AND MORE… CONTAINER APPS CONTAINER INFRA ONGOING RESEARCH CVEs TRACKED CONTAINER OS NETWORK THREAT PROTECTIONS FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENTS 16 | © 2018, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
17. Privileged access on the host? CloudWatch logging enabled? Managed registry being used? Secure webhooks in use? EXTENDING COMPLIANCE CHECKS TO CONTAINER INFRASTRUCTURE 17 | © 2018, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. RedLock and Evident More coming soon…
18.  Inbound security protection for Kubernetes (K8s) services  Automated learning of K8s services meta-data  Dynamic NAT policy updates  Outbound security controls INITIAL AVAILABILITY ON GOOGLE KUBERNETES ENGINE (GKE) Kubernetes Service Containers Kubernetes Service Kubernetes Service Containers Kubernetes Service GKE/Kubernetes Internet Network Traffic Management Traffic NETWORK THREAT PROTECTIONS FOR CONTAINER WORKLOADS IN GKE 18 | © 2018, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
19. Extending Host OS Protections To Containers Host-OS Exploit Protections • Local Privilege escalation • ROP exploits • Shellcode • Brute force • Reverse Shell Events Dashboard • Container process/namespace awareness • Container objects in events 19 | © 2015, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary.
20. FOUR STEPS TO SECURING YOUR CONTAINER INFRASTRUCTURE 20 | © 2018, Palo Alto Networks. Confidential and Proprietary. Registry Scanning Orchestrator ProtectionsHost-OS SecurityNetwork Protections EV
21. Containers Security Survey https://bit.ly/container-security-survey Chance to win a Google Home Mini
22. istio
23. What is ? • Load Balancing S V C - A S V C - B V 1 . 0 S V C - B V 2 . 1 80% 20% • Security, encryption • Metrics • Ingress/Egress • Add-ons: • Prometheus • Grafana • Zipkin • Service Graph • Failure tolerance
25. Thank you!
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Patent US8195790 - Optimization of a message handling system - Google Patents
A data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprises defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters...http://www.google.com/patents/US8195790?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8195790 - Optimization of a message handling system
Publication number US8195790 B2
Application number US 11/371,746
Filing date Mar 9, 2006
Also published as US20060230177
Publication number 11371746, 371746, US 8195790 B2, US 8195790B2, US-B2-8195790, US8195790 B2, US8195790B2
Inventors Kevin Anthony Braithwaite, Tim Dunn, Jose Emir Garza
Patent Citations (15), Non-Patent Citations (2), Classifications (7), Legal Events (4)
Optimization of a message handling system
US 8195790 B2
A data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprises defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, monitoring the performance of the message handling system, and generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system.
1. A data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system, said method comprising:
defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, wherein the test workload is defined exclusively by the message handling system by monitoring normal operation of the message handling system;
simulating the normal operation of the message handling system;
processing at least a portion of the test workload;
changing one or more parameters of the message handling system;
monitoring performance of the message handling system with respect to the processing of at least a portion of the test workload;
generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system with respect to the processing of at least a portion of the test workload, wherein the simulating is performed by a processing component of the message handling system, and wherein the normal operation of the message handling system is stopped upon the message handling system entering a test mode that includes processing of the at least a portion of the test workload;
sending the plurality of messages of the test workload to an input queue;
monitoring a depth of the input queue, wherein a rate of placing messages on the input queue is increased if there is potential for more messages to be placed on the input queue; and
creating a draining process to drain the plurality of messages from an output queue, wherein changing one or more parameters of the message handling system and monitoring the performance of the message handling system include using a genetic algorithm to modify the one or more parameters of the message handling system in random fashion and test a result with a learning process.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving a signal to trigger generating the optimization.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the signal is generated automatically by the message handling system.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the test workload includes a defined time period over which the at least a portion of the test workload is processed.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of messages in the test workload is designated by a type.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein simulating the normal operation of the message handling system and processing at least a portion of the test workload are executed for each message type in turn.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein simulating the normal operation of the message handling system and processing at least a portion of the test workload are executed for the entire test workload.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein changing one or more parameters of the message handling system and monitoring the performance of the message handling system comprise changing only a single parameter and monitoring effects of the change of the single parameter.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the test workload is representative of a normal workload of the message handling system and the performance corresponds to the processing of the at least a portion of the test workload.
10. A message handling system, comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and a plurality of interconnected processing components for maintaining, communicating and processing messages, the plurality of interconnected processing components including a facility exclusively defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, wherein the test workload is defined exclusively by the message handling system by monitoring normal operation of the message handling system, storing the test workload for subsequent update to the test workload, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing at least one parameter of the message handling system, monitoring performance of the message handling system with respect to the processing of at least a portion of the test workload, generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system with respect to the processing of at least a portion of the test workload, wherein the simulating is performed by a processing component of the message handling system, and wherein the normal operation of the message handling system is stopped upon the message handling system entering a test mode that includes processing of the at least a portion of the test workload;
creating a draining process to drain the plurality of messages from an output queue, wherein changing at least one parameter of the message handling system and monitoring the performance of the message handling system include using a genetic algorithm to modify the at least one parameter of the message handling system in random fashion and test a result with a learning process.
11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the facility is arranged to define the test workload in response to receipt of a signal.
12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the signal is generated automatically by the message handling system.
13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the test workload includes a defined time period over which the at least a portion of the test workload is processed.
14. The system according to claim 10, wherein each of the plurality of messages in the test workload is designated by a type.
15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the facility, when simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, and processing at least a portion of the test workload, is arranged to repeat these operations for each message type in turn.
16. A computer program product on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system, said instructions comprising defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, wherein the test workload is defined exclusively by the message handling system based on monitoring normal operation of the message handling system, storing the test workload, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, monitoring performance of the message handling system with respect to the processing of at least a portion of the test workload, generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system with respect to the processing of at least a portion of the test workload, wherein the simulating is performed by a processing component of the message handling system, and wherein the normal operation of the message handling system is stopped upon the message handling system entering a test mode that includes processing of the at least a portion of the test workload;
17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein each of the plurality of messages in the test workload is designated by a type, and wherein the simulating the normal operation of the message handling system and the processing at least a portion of the test workload are performed for each message type in turn.
18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the changing one or more parameters of the message handling system and the monitoring the performance of the message handling system are performed recursively.
The invention relates to a data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system and to such a message handling system.
A message handling system is an arrangement of interconnected processing components, which may be configured as a single machine or as a series of machines such as servers connected together, with messages traveling between the components.
A message handling system would be used by, for example, a business to link together such things as a website, customer records, stock information, and financial details. These components are in communication with each other via messages (units of work) that are created according to the structure of the system. For example, when a customer places an order through the website of the business, this would generate one or more messages that can be held in queues maintained by a central facility. The components within the system can then access the queues to call messages to execute tasks in relation to the called message, such as accessing the customer's account to receive payment, reserving stock and so forth.
Software vendors provide solutions to businesses to enable them to set up such message handling systems, or to integrate existing (sub) systems into a single unitary whole. The central facility within the system, which can be maintained by a component of the system, controls the general operation of the system. A variety of system parameters are set and controlled by this central facility. This may include such things as the allocation of memory resources in the system, the maintaining and updating of a log (for use in recovery situations), the number of processes being run by the system, the persistence/non-persistence of messages, and so on.
The central facility will be accessible by an administrator of the system, via a suitable user interface. The administrator can, via the user interface, access data concerning the operation of the message handling system, such as the amount of message traffic, and can monitor the performance of the system and of the individual components. The administrator can also make changes to the system parameters to adjust or attempt to improve the performance of the message handling system.
It is common for a user of a message handling system to have an ongoing relationship with the original vendor of the product, for such matters as technical support. In particular, following installation or following a substantial change in the operating circumstances of the system (such as a change in customer base or the launch of new products), the original vendor or the system administrator may be called upon to optimize the message handling system, or at least attempt to improve the overall throughput of messages in the system.
To achieve this, it is necessary for a technically skilled person who is familiar with the particular system and with the operating arrangement of that system to understand and characterize the overall system and work out a projection of the likely optimum performance of the particular installation of the message handling system. This projection includes potential parameter changes within the system. These changes are usually then made, and an iterative process of improving the performance of the system is carried out.
It will be appreciated that this known method of improving the performance of a message handling system is expensive in terms of resources and expertise, and has the overall weakness that it relies very heavily on the skilled person's judgment and experience.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprising: defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, monitoring the performance of the message handling system, and generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a message handling system, comprising: a plurality of interconnected processing components for maintaining, communicating and processing messages, the plurality of interconnected processing components including a facility arranged to define a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, to simulate the normal operation of the message handling system, to process at least a portion of the test workload, to change one or more parameters of the message handling system, to monitor the performance of the message handling system, and to generate an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions, tangibly embedded in a computer readable medium, for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprising defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, monitoring the performance of the message handling system, and generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system.
Owing to the invention, it is possible to provide a message handling system that can be optimized for one or more parameters in an automatic fashion. Little or no intervention is required by a user of the system, and the requirement for specialist adaptation of a message handling system is foregone. The system can perform its own optimization, and this planning will be performed on a real system with real data, not a forecast.
The aim of the optimization will usually be to maximize the throughput of messages through the system, which will be measured while the performance of the message handling system is monitored.
Advantageously, the data processing method further comprises receiving a signal to trigger the parameter optimization process. The signal to trigger the parameter optimization process can be generated automatically by the message handling system. The automatic generation of the trigger to optimize the message handling system, which may be based upon a factor such as time elapsed since system install or upgrade, results in a system that can self optimize without an administrator intervention. It is also possible that the system will recommend to a user that optimization should take place, based upon the system detecting that throughput requirements are not being met. This could be triggered by the system detecting that messages are waiting on an input queue for too long, for example.
Preferably, the step of defining a test workload is executed automatically by the message handling system by monitoring the normal operation of the message handling system. The automation of the creation of the test workload further reduces the intervention of a human operator in the optimization of the message handling system. Alternatively, the step of defining a test workload is executed by a user of the message handling system. The defining of the test workload can also be a combination of machine and human input, with the system proposing a test workload that a user can amend or extend as desired.
Ideally, the test workload includes a time period. The test workload represents a sample workload that the message handling system would process over a defined time period, perhaps fifteen minutes.
Advantageously, each of the plurality of messages in the test workload is designated by a type, and the steps of simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, and processing at least a portion of the test workload, are executed for each message type in turn.
To facilitate an effective optimization, the messages within the test workload are organized into types. There may be as few as two different types, or there could be ten or more types. There is no absolute definition of what these types have to be, it is sufficient that they cover the variety of different messages with which the system deals. Messages could be split into type according to their size, or the nature of the processing demands that they make, or the speed with which they need to be dealt, or a combination of these and other factors. By simulating the normal operation of the system for each type of message, in turn, information on those parameters effecting individual message types can be acquired.
In an alternative embodiment, the steps of simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, and processing at least a portion of the test workload, are executed for the entire test workload. In this embodiment, the designated test workload is processed by the message handling system, and information on the performance of the system as parameters are changed is relevant to the whole test workload, which is representative of the normal workload of the system.
Preferably, the steps of changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, and monitoring the performance of the message handling system, include using a genetic algorithm to modify the parameters of the message handling system. Since multiple parameters effect the operation of the message handling system, a defined algorithm or process is needed to achieve the optimization of those parameters that are chosen for inquiry (which may be just one or may be all of the possible parameters effecting system performance). One way of achieving the optimization is to use a genetic algorithm. The algorithm makes changes to the parameters on a (semi) random basis and monitors the resulting performance of the system. Those changes that result in improvement are kept and those that do not lead to improvement are discarded.
In an alternative embodiment, the steps of changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, and monitoring the performance of the message handling system, consists of changing a single parameter and monitoring the effects of the single change of parameter. This method, as an alternative to the use of a genetic algorithm, is most appropriate where only one, or a small number, of parameters are being optimized. In this case, a single parameter is changed incrementally until it finds the point of best performance, and then this is repeated for each of the other parameters in turn. This can be done recursively, if it is considered likely that later changes to other parameters may affect the “best” value for parameters already optimized.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a message handling system;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a component of the message handling system of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of the message handling system of FIGS. 1 and 2.
FIG. 1 shows a message handling system 10, which comprises a plurality of interconnected processing components 12. These components 12, in many practical applications are only separate in a logical sense, being different parts of a single computing system. The components 12 are for maintaining, communicating and processing messages, an example of such a message being the message 14. At least one of the components, and possibly all of them, has the capability to create messages 14. Messages can be created at a very fast rate, in the order of hundreds per second.
The plurality of interconnected processing components 12 include a central facility 16, which has the role of coordinating many of the organizational aspects of the message handling system 10. In particular, the facility 16 will maintain one or more queues 18 of messages 14. When a component 12 creates a message 14, this will be placed on a queue 16 within the facility 18. The facility 16 is responsible for the management of the queue 18, including such factors as the logging of messages 14 for data recovery purposes, and the locking of queues when messages 14 are called by other components within the system.
The facility 16 is also accessible by an administrator of the system 10, via a suitable user interface, to access information about the performance of the system 10 and to set or adjust any system parameters. These parameters will relate to all aspects of the system 10 including such things as the allocation of memory resources in the system 10, the maintaining and updating of the message log, the number of processes being run by the system 10, and the persistence/non-persistence of messages. In most systems many other user adjustable parameters will be present.
When a message handling system such as that shown in FIG. 1 is installed, then decisions are made concerning the setting of parameters for the running of the system. These are likely to be set at a default level, with possibly some adjustment by the expert installer of the system. However, once this has been done, the system 10 will run with the message traffic that is generated by the real working of the system 10.
The system 10 includes the functionality of automatic optimization. This autonomic process of optimization (of one or more parameters) is triggered, either automatically within the system 10 or can be triggered by an action of a user through the user interface of the facility 16.
Once the system has been triggered to perform the optimization, it will enter a test mode and the normal functioning of the message handling system 10 will be stopped. In its simplest form the optimization will have as its aim the calculation of the maximum throughput of messages by the system 10, and all parameters will be optimized to achieve this end.
In order to execute the optimization, the facility 16 is arranged to define a test workload (shown in FIG. 2). The test workload 24 comprises a plurality of messages, and is either created by the facility 16 automatically by monitoring the normal running of the system 10, or is user defined, or a combination of these methods is possible. The test workload 24 can be stored locally and can be updated over time, until it is needed for an optimization of the system 10.
FIG. 2 illustrates in more detail some of the workings of the central facility 16, in which a broker 20, one example of a message processing system, is controlling units within the facility 16. These units include a driver process 22, which simulates the normal operation of the message handling system 10 by emulating the work of the components. The driver process 22 has access to the test workload 24, which contains a plurality of messages. These messages in the test workload 24 are designed to represent a segment of the normal working of the message handling system 10. Each of the plurality of messages in the test workload 24 can be designated by a type. For example, if 90% of the messages handled by the system 10 are of a first type and 10% are of a second type, then the test workload would contain 9 messages of the first type and 1 of the second type to model the normal workflow through the system 10.
The optimization process is summarized in FIG. 3, with the first three steps being as discussed above, of receiving 300 an instruction to begin the optimization process, secondly defining 302 the test workload 24 and thirdly simulating 304 the normal operation of the system 10, which is carried out by the driver process 22.
The next stage in the method is the step 306 of processing at least a portion of the test workload 24. The driver process can either use all of the messages in the test workload 24 to drive the optimization or can take each of the different types of message in turn to calculate the optimization. Once the processing of the workload 24 has begun, then the driver process can change the parameters in the system (step 308) and monitor 310 the performance of the system, ultimately generating 312 an optimization of the system 10.
The steps 308 and 310 of changing one or more parameters of the message handling system 10, and monitoring the performance of the message handling system 10, can include the use of a genetic algorithm to modify the parameters of the message handling system 10. This will lead to a recursive repetition of the steps 306, 308 and 310 as shown by the dotted arrow in FIG. 3. The genetic algorithm will modify the parameters in random fashion and test the results with a learning process to identify those changes that improve the performance of the system 10.
An alternative to the use of a genetic algorithm is for the steps 308 and 310 of changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, and monitoring the performance of the message handling system, to consist of changing a single parameter and monitoring the effects of the single change of parameter. This again will be in many instances a recursive process. FIG. 2 relates to an example of a single parameter change to optimize the system 10.
In FIG. 2, the driver process 22 uses the messages in the test workload 24 to start off a recursive process of optimization. The messages within the workload 24 are sent to an input queue 26, at a specific time rate of, for example, 1 per second, which will feed the messages through execution groups 28. The single parameter that is being optimized is the number of processes (shown as execution groups in the Figure) being run by the broker 20.
The processes 28 will process the messages that they receive an place the output messages onto output queues 30. The depth of the input queue 26 is monitored by the driver process 22 and if there is a potential for more messages to be placed onto queue 26 then the rate of placing of messages on the queue 26 is increased. An additional draining process 32 is created to drain the messages from the output queues 30. The depth of the queue 26 is continually monitored and the rate is increased to the point at which there is no more scope for additional throughput. An example of the processing of the driver is as follows:
Rate = 1 message per second, Average = 0, MaxRate = 0
While Rate > MaxRate
Do 32 times [32 could be replaced to be other value if proved
more effective in production]
Put Message to Input Q at rate specified (in this case
1 every second)
Wait for 1/Rate seconds
Monitor the depth of the Q -> Curdepth
Calculate average depth of Q: (Average * 31 + Curdepth)/32
If Average > 1
If Rate > MaxRate
MaxRate = Rate
Create a new instance of the flow
Report max rate and number of instances
Increase Rate = Rate + 10% [10% be replaced to be other
value if proved more effective in production]
At the point at which the Q Depth is greater than 1 (averaged) a check is made to see if the rate has increased from any previous recorded. If so then the driver process will create a new thread as more throughput could be possible. If not then the facility will report the findings and exit. If the Q Depth is less than one then the rate at which messages are put on the input Q is increased. On completion the maximum message rate possible for the machine tested is placed in a file 34 or onto a Q (36) along with the necessary message processing application, in this example, broker configuration.
In this way a single parameter can be optimized automatically for a message handling system, to increase the performance of the system. Multiple parameters can be optimized in turn, or can be optimized in parallel.
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All 1 Way forms of communication Source Wikipedia
Looking online I found 8 different definitions but no “offical ones” What I did find was that a majority had the following in common. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=ope&defl=en&q=define:Social+media&ei=_O3oSsbTIduJtgemr9D1Bg&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&ved=0CA0QkAE
www.socialnomics.net This is a bunch of Statistics.. I have a link to their sources in the references. So take this with a grain of salt.. However, even if these are somewhat correct.. And I think a good amount of them are.. It is signaling a shift in how we communicate. Why do businesses care about this. Well this is how their customers talk to each other and how businesses talk to their customers. Bad Customer Service.. We will look at that Word of mouth. What bloggers are saying abot your brand.. You better. 78% trust peer reccomendations 14% trust ads Shift in communications STOP AT SHIFT IN WAY WE COMMUNICATE
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=961&tag=nl.e539 This is the shift in the way we communicate (from the video) but its applied to a business centric perspective. Value shifting from transactions to relationships. This is the growing realization that the traditional business transaction weather it be a product or a service as the core source of value to a company is diminishing and value is now coming from relationship dynamics. We will see this with Zappos. adopting new ways of interacting with customers Web 2.0 and social computing will be key enablers of this for business units and IT organizations that want increased relevance.
http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/social-media-business/ The most popular brands in social media tend to post less about their products or services and more about things that help their customers get to know the people and personality of a company. Their goal is less about “selling” and more “engaging” — and, as a result, through such engagement people feel more comfortable doing business with those companies. Lesson: Release fewer “official statements” and more personal ones that help you make a connection to your customers and audience. 2. 2. From “Large Campaigns” to “Small Acts” In the past, if we had a very bad or very good experience with a company, it could take days or weeks to tell all of our friends and relatives about it. Today, in a matter of minutes, we can let all our friends on Facebook or followers on Twitter know about what happened. When every customer experience can be easily and widely broadcast, small issues become super important. Loic Le Meur, CEO of startup software company Seesmic, once told me that one of the most important jobs of a CEO today is to hear what people are saying about the company’s product across social media channels, and to respond to them directly. In fact, much of his Twitter stream is @replies to people commenting on his company’s product. Bigger companies, such as Southwest Airlines and Comcast are using Twitter in the same way, making sure customers’ concerns are addressed. Because bad experiences are broadcast just as fast and just as easily as the good, it pays for companies to pay attention to the one-on-one customer relationships forged via social media. Lesson: Instead of only relying on big campaigns, make authentic, helpful relationships and communication the new campaign. 3. Shifting from “Controlling Our Image” to “Being Ourselves” Of course companies need to have employee policies, and there is such a thing as bad press, but look at the most popular companies in the era of social media, and you’ll generally find the ones that give their employees freedom to be themselves in online spaces. The goal should no longer be to create a very controlled and polished image that everyone in a company tries to reinforce, but rather to give employees the means necessary to be human beings that can put a friendly face on the corporation. Lesson: Forget the unified company image, give staff the freedom to be themselves, and trust that the relationships that they build will help the company in the long run. 4. From “Hard to Reach” to “Available Everywhere” Companies like Dell, for example, have fully embraced multiple channels of support. Their community site lists all the ways customers can connect with them through Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , YouTube , forums, blogs, email, and more. Dell wants people to be able to connect with them through whatever channel is most comfortable. Lesson: Rather than expect customers to communicate through your chosen means, allow them to do so through their chosen means. In this new era of social media, companies are asked to be increasingly transparent and personal. Of course, traditional advertising and press releases will still have their place, but social sites such as Twitter and Facebook allow a whole new type of communication to take place that has previously been unknown to most businesses. Possibly more important for businesses than getting a large number of followers on social media sites, is following through on the opportunity to forge more genuine and direct connections with their customers. Businesses who choose not to adapt to the new culture will be at an increasing disadvantage, as their customers slowly build personal relationships with their competitors. We are now in the age of open communication, engaged dialogue, and transparency, and business success may now have less to do with the size of ad budgets, but on the quality of interactions with customers.
http://www.viralblog.com/viral-commercials/microsofts-great-b2b-viral-the-break-up/ This Video basically illustrates the new disconnect between business and customers.
http://wiki.beingpeterkim.com/ BLOGS Coca-Cola Conversations is a blog written by company historian Phil Mooney that focuses on Coke collectibles. 37signals – logs not only about their software. But about web design in principle. Also posts good tweets on homepage Accenture – offers several blogs depending on your level of IT knowledge as well as their products. Twitter: Popeyes – likes to tweet replies to various #popeyes searches. Clever responses “ ComcastDoes Customer Service Straight through Twitter.. Even if not requested Dell also does customer service but shows sales there also. YouTube Blendtec is famous for its bevy of inexpensive “Will It Blend” videos posted on YouTube and shared by millions. Home Depot – about 100 + how to videos Eukanuba – Profiles of Champion dogs. FlickrSlideshare Jeep connects with customers via a community page with links to photos on Flickr, the company’s MySpace and Facebook pages and a list enthusiast groups Others Toyota and cisco Own Lands in Second Life National Geographic -
http://blog.orourkehospitality.com/2009/10/southwest-airlines-leverages-social-media-tools/ Southwest Airlines in April, 2006, they began their blog ‘Nuts About Southwest’. 30 employees from all departments, including the Flight Crew, to blog, and gave them two guidelines; write what you are passionate about and write when you feel like it. Berg says some of the bloggers are prolific and others hide from her in the hallway. In May of 2008 Southwest Airlines relaunched their blog, to make it more web 2.0, by adding new elements such as videos and podcasts. Visits went up by 25%. Lessons Learned From this interaction One case study was called ‘Open Season on Assigned Seating’. Basically, the CEO announced on a blog that Southwest would change the open seating policy to assigned seating. His blog post received 700 comments from customers voicing their opinions, many of which opposed the change. Therefore, he decided to keep the open seating policy. Another thing that Southwest learned from this was that travelers were unhappy with their boarding process so Southwest was able to adopt a new process. Southwest declared on their website, “You Spoke and We Listened – Southwest Airlines Says Open Seating is Here to Stay!” Another case study Berg discusses is called ‘A Story With Legs’. This was a case where Southwest asked a passenger to cover up her outfit because she was scantily dressed. Six months later the story broke in the San Diego Tribune and on the Today Show. Many people were outraged and comments exploded online. Southwest finally apologized, but Berg admits they should have done it earlier. The Next Time it happened This time Southwest responded earlier by releasing a video which told their side of the story. The video received 250,000 views and was number 8 of the most viewed videos. This time Southwest received tremendous support from the public and other bloggers. Southwest also uses other social media platforms including Twitter. They currently have 750,000 Twitter followers. They posted a 2-day fare sale which was driven by social media and had tremendous results.
H&R Block http://www.hallme.com/blog/hr-block-social-media/ http://ebizine.com/social-media/case-study-hr-block-gets-big-buzz-through-social-media-for-digital-products-how-to-test-and-pick-channels/ Trueman Green. http://www.youtube.com/user/TrumanGreene#p/a Here’s how H&R Block used these social media venues: Twitter: H&R Block is using Twitter as a reputation management tool and communication channel. H&R Block’s Twitter profile, is filled with responses to other Twitterers comments, concerns or questions about taxes or H&R Block itself. Here’s how it works: H&R Block uses a Twitter aggregator like Summize and monitors tweets about things like their name, tax questions, stuff like that and they they respond to that person. For example: One Twitterer ‘tweeted’: “Trying to figure out an “Offer of Compromise” with the IRS. H&R Block still has not called me! Within a short time H&R Block responded with this: “Let us know if you need help getting touch with one of our tax pros.” Real time reputation management. Very proactive, very smart. MySpace: With the help of a hired actor (I’m assuming, hoping) named Truman Greene, H&R Block created a super stoked H&R evangelist with a lot charisma and likeablity. Truman created funny viral videos, had his own MySpace page to promote his love for the brand, and even developed a fan base. YouTube: H&R Block ran a contest “Me & My Super Sweet Refund”. The objective was to submit a short video about how they would spend their tax return. The winner received $5,000! With 130 submissions and thousands of votes, the contest was a success. Facebook: Created a Fan Page published Truman Green’s videos, developed branded applications that the entire Facebook community can feature on their profile or share with their friends. Second Life: H&R Block started out by establishing an island in the virtual world of Second Life. Ran a series of “Ask a professional” nights in the digital shop run by actual tax professionals sharing tax advice, answering questions, and providing some really cool tax preparation products. One point that Paula Drum did make clear was that while the use of social media can be more effective than traditional advertising it does take up a huge about of human capital to make it successful and meaningful. And no…she wasn’t talking about guys in costumes…
http://www.idgconnect.com/index.cfm?cid=116&pk=13319&event=showarticle ZAPPOs Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has nearly 1.3 million followers on Twitter, and the company's official Facebook page has almost 21,000 fans. Rather than using these channels to pitch products or sell its brand, Zappos focuses more on building personal relationships with customers by talking to them about the company's culture and values. &quot;It really is about who we are as a company rather than what we sell,&quot; says Aaron Magness, director of new business development at Zappos Its like the culture has become their brand. Zappos has a dedicated page for Twitter on its site where nearly 500 of the company's 1,400 or so employees tweet regularly about what they're doing at work. The site also aggregates all public Twitter mentions of Zappos -- the good, the bad and the ugly -- and presents them in a single location. The company's Facebook page, meanwhile, features videos and pictures of company picnics, employees at work, office humor, motivational messages and much more. There are no policies specifying which employees can or can't post on such sites or what they can say, The informality and transparency has engendered what Magness believes is stronger customer loyalty. &quot;To customers, we are not just a faceless corporation. They know our CEO as a person as opposed to someone hawking goods,&quot; he says. And the interactivity enabled by social media has also allowed the company to spot and respond to customer issues faster, he says.
5 Small Businesses Successfully Using Social Media October 21st, 2009 | by Lauren Fisher http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/social-media-small-businesses/ Howies is a UK clothing company specializing in activewear. Blog is very personal. CEO had followers upset when he had to sell his bike Also Have a presence on twitter, last.fm (company playlist) and facebook as well as more specialized Social Netowrks Lesson: By creating an incredibly social website, Howies demonstrates an understanding of the full social media landscape. It’s one thing to work hard at building an external community on social networking platforms, but the key is retaining this traffic on your own site and creating a social experience for the user that will (hopefully) lead to sales. Kogi BBQ is a mobile Korean BBQ trust that travels around Los Angeles selling Korean tacos. They’ve built up an impressive 45,000 follower base on Twitter by tweeting where their truck is going to roll up next. The company also recently ran a crowdsourced t-shirt competition , with fans voting on their favorite t-shirt design. The story behind Kogi BBQ is decidedly home-grown, showing that with a personality and a good product you can build up a loyal community. The now-famous taco truck has basically reached cult status and is an excellent ‘how-to’ for any business who wants to get involved with Twitter. Lesson: Kogi have shown that social media is about taking the mundane and making it remarkable. On the face of it, a mobile food truck isn’t all that innovative. But a mobile food truck that tweets its way through Los Angeles? That gets people engaged and importantly, the end result is boosted real-world sales. The Marsh Cafe With a simple poster in their window, The Marsh Cafe in San Francisco, have seriously demonstrated that they’re ahead of the social media curve. This summer they put up a sign that promoted ‘Foursquare mayor drinks for free!’ The cafe has received lots of coverage for their innovative marketing campaign, including on mainstream media outlets, such as CNN . Cari Turley, the manager of The Marsh who runs their social media presence, explains that she is an active user of social media including Foursquare, which is how she came up with the idea for the promotion. She says, “Already, a dozen or so people have written to me about how ‘cool’ the offer is, and really, in the Mission District, cool is the best thing you can be.” As for the impact on business? Since starting the offer, The Marsh cafe has a seen a surge in demand and has hired extra staff and extended opening hours to meet it. Denis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, even contacted the cafe after the promotion and worked to develop a special box application that promotes the offer. Lesson: By being right at the forefront of new technology, The Marsh has demonstrated how something as simple as an offer for a drink can garner attention and create conversations around your brand. Because the staff at The Marsh are heavy social media users themselves, they know what works and what doesn’t work — and this is invaluable.
Businesses who choose not to adapt to the new culture will be at an increasing disadvantage, as their customers slowly build personal relationships with their competitors. We are now in the age of open communication, engaged dialogue, and transparency, and business success may now have less to do with the size of ad budgets, but on the quality of interactions with customers.
1. Social Media: Why Businesses Need to Learn it to Survive! By Larry Jennings I can be your Companies BFF!  Or I can Bring Da Hatez! 
2. Agenda

Background

Traditional Media

Social Media

What are the Tools of Social Media

Why does Social Media Work for Business

Why is Social Media Important for Business

How Is Business Changing?

How is Social Media Helping?

Notable Examples

Small Businesses using Social Media

Why MUST Businesses Use it?

Americans have access to: 1 trillion web pages 65k iPhone apps 11k radio stations 5,500 magazines 200+ cable TV networks
3. Background Traditional Methods of Reaching Customers

Broadcast Advertising

TV

Radio

Print Media

Newspapers

Magazines

Direct Marketing

Mail

Flyers

Door to Door

Source: Wikipeida.com More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC, CBS, and NBC had been airing new content since 1948
4. What is Social Media?

No Solid Definition but Typically Consists of:

User Participation

User Generated Content

Audio, visual, multimedia

Exchange of content

Accelerates information and communication.

Wikipedia launched in 2001. It now features over 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.
5. What are the Tools of Social Media?
6. Why is Social Media Important to Business? www.socialnomics.net
7. Because Business Is Changing!
8. How is Social Media Changing Business?

Companies are going from “Trying to Sell” to “Making Connections”

Moving from “Large Media Campaigns” to “Small Acts”

From “Controlling Our Image” to “Being Ourselves”

From “Hard to Reach” to “Available Everywhere”

Source: www.mashable.com Myspace, Facebook, & YouTube collectively get 250 million unique visitors per month. None of these sites existed 6 years ago.
9. What Has Changed? Source: www.viralblog.com
10.

Blogs

Coca-Cola

37signals

Accenture

Flikr

Oscar Meyer

Rubbermaid

Jeep

Twitter

Popeye's

Dell

Comcast

Notable Examples:

Second Life

Toyota

Cisco

Youtube

Blend Tec

Home Depot

Eukanuba

Source: wiki.beingpeterkim.com
11. 3 Great Examples:

Southwest Airlines

“ Make it personal, act fast, don’t rely on numbers alone, don’t be afraid to join the conversation, make it personal, educate employees, live and breath social media, and have fun – it’s not a burden, it’s a gift.”

-Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines

Source: blog.orourkehospitality.com 2009 traditional advertising revenue Newspapers ads r down 18.7% TV ads down 10.1% Radio ads down 11.7% Magazine ads down 14.8%
12.

H & R Block

“ Consumers are beginning to interact with brands a bit differently,” she says. “They’re looking for conversations and the ability to have a relationship with a brand … We wanted to enable that as part of our marketing program.”

-Paula Drum

VP Digital Marketing, H&R Block

3 Great Examples Meanwhile, digital advertising is growing rapidly: Mobile advertising is up 18.1% Web advertising is up 9.2% Source: www.hallme.com , ebizine.com
13.

Zappos

"We let our customers see our culture and decide if we are somebody they can relate with. It breaks down the barriers of consumer vs. company and becomes more about a consumer buying from a friend,“

-Aaron Magness, Zappos

3 Great Examples: Source: www.idgconnect.com Michael Jackson, Swine Flu, and Barack Obama have been this year’s top subjects for malware distributing emails .
14. Small Business are using Social Media Too!

Howies

Twitter

Last.fm

Kogi BBQ

Twitter

The Marsh Café

Twitter

Foursquare

In February 2008, John McCain raised $11 million for his U.S. Presidential bid . Source: www.mashable.com
15. Why Must Businesses Use Social Media?

As traditional media declines, business must stay ahead of the curve in communicating and building relationships with customers.

Social Media provides an effective way to do this at a minimum of cost making it effective to companies of all sizes

Same month, Obama attended no campaign fndrsers. Instead, Obama leveraged online networks to raise $55 million in those 29 days .
16. The Biggest Reason: Customers Are already using Social Media to talk about companies! Views: 1,384,938 as of 10/24/09
18. For More Information

General Social Media:

Mashable

www.mashable.com

ZDNet

www.zdnet.com

Dosh Dosh

www.doshdosh.com

People you should know

Marta Kagan

bonafidemarketinggenius.com

What the F@#K is Social Media!

19. Sources

Videos/Sources

New “Shift Happens (Did You Know?)” video shows the “shift” is to social media

Video: http://socialnomics.net/2009/09/24/new-shift-happens-did-you-know-video-shows-the-shift-is-to-social-media/

Sources: http://socialnomics.net/2009/08/11/statistics-show-social-media-is-bigger-than-you-think/

The Break Up

Microsoft’s Great B2B Viral ‘The Break Up’

http://www.viralblog.com/viral-commercials/microsofts-great-b2b-viral-the-break-up/

Comcast Technician sleeping on couch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7b5gzqU

Cell Phone Statistics:

Video: http://www.xplane.com/company/news/2009/09/16/did-you-know-4-0/

Sources: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/Sources

20. Sources

Sources:

Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy

Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe @ 1:41 pm, October 5th, 2009

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=961&tag=nl.e539

Describes some of the business and technological principles behind social media

4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business

September 22nd, 2009 | by Soren Gordhamer

http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/social-media-business/

Describes what shifts are occurring in social media and business.

Various Notable Examples:

http://wiki.beingpeterkim.com/

This is a wiki that contains about 1300 examples of social media in use for business

Southwest Airlines Leverages Social Media Tools

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

http://blog.orourkehospitality.com/2009/10/southwest-airlines-leverages-social-media-tools/

Article describing the effect that social media has had on Southwest Airlines

H&R Block Embraces Social Media, Uncle Sam’s Everywhere Cringe

June 19th, 2008 by Hall

http://www.hallme.com/blog/hr-block-social-media/

a synopsis of how H&R Block is using Social Media

Case Study: H&R Block Gets Big Buzz through Social Media for Digital Products: How to Test and Pick Channels

Untitled but reprinted from a marketing magazine

http://ebizine.com/social-media/case-study-hr-block-gets-big-buzz-through-social-media-for-digital-products-how-to-test-and-pick-channels/.

A More detailed study about the approach that was taken in launching H&R Blocks Social Media Campaign.

Zappos gets savvy with social media 10/19/2009

http://www.idgconnect.com/index.cfm?cid=116&pk=13319&event=showarticle

Article Discussing the Use of Social Media by Zappos


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php - SimpleTest with CodeIgniter -- won't identify file -- variables die? - Stack Overflow
I am trying to use SimpleTest with CodeIgniter, using code supplied by maroonbytes. I am using LAMP and NetBeans 6.9. The test.php page loads up in my browser. I have a stub test in place and it shows in the drop-down selections. When I try to run it, I get 2 PHP errors:
include_once(/var/www/sparts3/main/tests/basic_test_v.php):
directory Message: include_once():
'/var/www/sparts3/main/tests/basic_test_v.php'
(include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear')
The path is wrong -- basic_test_v.php is in a subfolder /tests/views.
The debugger points to this in test.php:
function add_test($file, &$test)
For some reason NetBeans does not expose the value of $file at this point. Does this mean it's empty?
I've already jimmied a line of code because it gets me past a Code 404 Page Not Found. it seemed the debugger GET was causing the validator to fail. So I added a criteria, in my ignorant way (I'm sure it should be a handled exception or something):
if ($this->uri->uri_string == '' || $this->uri->uri_string == 'XDEBUG_SESSION_START')
How can I solve this? BTW, this is attempted to solve my other post, which I will update; seemed best to make this a discrete question. UPDATE 1: I've been using the Web Developer add-in (Firefox) to experiment with the POST entries. I believe these are being mishandled in the code. It still appears NetBeans is balking on showing some string variables while debugging; this is frustrating.
UPDATE 2: It seems to me that valid code processing stops at the same point NetBeans stops displaying variables. I am stepping through test.php. I am partway through a function, add_test($file, &$test). This functions opens with an if statement; that finishes well, and I can see the variables. Then a new if statement:
if (file_exists($implementation))
require_once ($implementation); ...
As soon as I'm on that line, 2 things happen:
The Variables display in NetBeans goes blank
except for SuperGlobals
The code behaves as if
$implementation is an empty variable
I added a statement just above these lines:
$implementation = 'http://var/www/sparts3/main/tests/views/basic_test_view.php';
This doesn't change anything. The browser output is the same whether I'm using NetBeans/Xdebug or not. So it's starting to look like a PHP processing glitch. Do those exist? I may try uploading and trying from host service -- for diagnostic clues only, and cheerlessly, because CI without the ability to debug is of no interest to me. UPDATE 3: I tried everything out on a WAMP PC. Same browser results (plus some "deprecated" errors, something to do with PHP 4 vs. 5). I think I can debug on that PC (if Xdebug is functioning), but there seems little point. php codeigniter netbeans simpletest share|improve this question edited Aug 1 '10 at 14:10
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Did you renamed basic_test_v.php to basic_test_view.php? the code expects your files to be named and stored right.
UPDATE 1 (yes im bored)
I've already jimmied a line of code
because it gets me past a Code 404
Page Not Found. it seemed the debugger
GET was causing the validator to fail.
So I added a criteria, in my ignorant
way (I'm sure it should be a handled
exception or something):
if ($this->uri->uri_string == '' || $this->uri->uri_string == 'XDEBUG_SESSION_START') {   ...  }
How can I solve this? BTW, this is attempted to solve my
other post, which I will update;
seemed best to make this a discrete
The "right" solution to this issue is:
set $config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO"; to $config['uri_protocol'] = "PATH_INFO";
and $config['enable_query_strings'] = FALSE; to $config['enable_query_strings'] = TRUE;
in the config.php (read the comment above those settings, they very helpful)
After a deeper look at test.php i can tell you that your test files should be named like this:
%name%_%type%_test.php (where %type% is singular)
we've got a controller welcome placed in the file welcome.php
the test for this controller should be named welcome_controller_test.php and stored under tests/controllers/
the test.php script tries to load the test file and the tested file automatically.
But in my opinion it needs to be corrected.
I've changed function get_loader_id and add_test like follows
function get_loader_id($file, $type) {
$loader_id = str_replace("_{$type}_test.php", "", basename($file));
return $loader_id;
function add_test($file, &$test) {
$implementation = '';
if (preg_match('/_controller/', $file)) {
$controller = get_loader_id($file, 'controller');
$implementation = APPLICATION . 'controllers/' . $controller . '.php';
} elseif (preg_match('/_model/', $file)) {
$model = get_loader_id($file, 'model');
$implementation = APPLICATION . 'models/' . $model . '_model.php';
} elseif (preg_match('/_view/', $file)) {
$view = get_loader_id($file, 'view');
$implementation = APPLICATION . 'views/' . $view . '.php';
} elseif (preg_match('/_helper/', $file)) {
$helper = get_loader_id($file, 'helper');
$implementation = APPLICATION . 'helpers/' . $helper . '.php';
} elseif (preg_match('/_library/', $file)) {
$library = get_loader_id($file, 'library');
$implementation = APPLICATION . 'libraries/' . $library . '.php';
if (file_exists($implementation)) {
require_once ($implementation);
$test->addFile($file);
if you're following the filename conventions all should run just fine
(i've tested it on an macbook with zend server ce, xdebug, simpletest and netbeans 6.9)
share|improve this answer edited Aug 3 '10 at 14:12
answered Aug 3 '10 at 9:44
Thanks for the work and the advice on several points. May your boredom ever reward those around you.
If what you're trying to load is a view, have you tried to use $this->load->view('basic_test_view'); ?
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Monday 10 January 2005 08.14 EST
A week of crimestopping advice aimed at protecting schoolchildren from being robbed at school is being launched across the country today.
The 'Safe' week will include awareness-raising assemblies and lessons designed by crime-fighting experts. Pupils are particularly vulnerable in January as thieves take advantage of the dark and target victims with new Christmas presents returning to school after the holiday. Lessons week will advise students on how to avoid becoming a target for criminals by keeping mobile phones hidden, making use of lockers and not displaying valuable such as MP3 players.
The National Youth Theatre has also devised a play highlighting the risk of becoming a target for crime, which it will perform at schools across the country during the week.
The home office, the Department for Education and Skills and Crimestoppers have developed a resource pack for teachers targeted at 11 to 14 year-olds. Schools are being encouraged to build this into their lessons during the week as part of the citizenship curriculum.
Home Office minister Hazel Blears, launching the drive last Friday, said that it would both increase young people's safety and send a strong deterrent message to potential offenders in schools.
"Being a victim of crime is a traumatic experience for anyone, but especially for young people - and unfortunately, children can make easy targets for thieves, often school age themselves. The government is determined to increase young people's safety, which is why we have joined forces with Crimestoppers to make sure that over the coming week - a peak time for robbery - kids are taught how to reduce their chances of being a victim." She added: "Most young people do not commit crime, but those who do tend to target victims their own age. 'Safe' will make them realise that robbery is serious - and so are the consequences."
Olympic medal-winning boxer Amir Khan, who joined Ms Blears for the launch, said he hoped the campaign would raise awareness among school pupils. "I am very happy to support anti-robbery week, as it is important to help young people avoid becoming victims of robbery and to deter potential offenders too," he said. Top tips to avoid becoming a victim: · Talking on your mobile phone and wearing MP3 player headphones shows robbers that you have things worth taking so don't flash your valuables about - keep them hidden!
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· Spread your possessions about - for example, keep your mobile phone separate from your wallet and money.
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