Website/News

Websites/News Channel is a dedicated channel that emulates an internet browser. In this familiar format players can use the web channel just like the regular web.

Benefit

Reproduce an online ecosystem based on websites from a secure and protected environment for training.

Features

Searching for websites

When you add a new tab the search page will appear, here players can search for terms on shown or hidden websites.

In article-based websites players can search for any term used in Title, Subtitle or Body in any new article.

When players type an invalid URL which hasn't been added to the exercise, a 'No results found' page will appear as the following:

Sharing articles

In article-based websites, you can share articles within the exercise. Click the Share icon at the top right corner of any article to share on available channels for your exercise

All website links work across all channels. Whether you copy a link from the website, paste it into the address bar, or when you click to share article, both the URL and generated short link will be persistent.

Copy link

Copy link generates an internal link that can be pasted anywhere in your exercise and it will link to the referenced article. It will not work outside the Virtual Desktop

External link

View website details

View the website details by clicking the three dots upper right in the website/news channel. Or by clicking the customisable icon. Note that when a website is hacked, the icon will never appear but the three dots can be accessed or not depending on your configuration.

Hover over URL

Participants can investigate potential phishing emails by verifying the legitimacy of a link by hovering over it to reveal the actual URL.