🔥Data corruption

Data corruption is the alteration of data in a way that it becomes incorrect, inconsistent, or unusable. It's a way of seeing if someone is potentially tampering with your website or some of your backend is being manipulated. This can be simulated in Conducttr using smartwords.

There are four steps to take to simulate data corruption:

1. Set up your inject and smartwords in the MEL

2. Modify smartwords during the exercise

3. Re-publish the inject

4. Check the inject in the player view

1 - Set up: Inject and smartword

Inject

Create an inject containing a smartword.

Smartword

In Configuration > Smartwords set up your text. Once completed, remember to upload to space.

2 - Modify in the Facilitator Dashboard

During the exercise, in the Facilitator Dashboard, navigate to Content, Smartwords and change the text. Once finished, click Update data.

3 - Re-publish the inject

Smartwords are not retroactive so it doesn’t go back and change what has already been published - hence we have to republish the article again. There are two ways that you can re-publish the inject.

Publish to player

Publish the article again by navigating to the scenario editor, right-clicking on the inject and then Publish to player:

Pre-planned inject

Or, you can plan an inject with the same smartword to appear later on in the exercise. This will re-publish the news article with the updated smartword.

This option isn't as flexible as the one above since it's timed. If you go with this method, it's a good idea to also add a notification for the Facilitator to change the smartword.

4 - Check the player view

The example below shows the website working with the new smartword: