Cyber Essentials Knowledge Hub is based on a Confluence space and displayed using Refined.
Refined configuration:
Site name : IASME Documents
Subdomain : ncsc-schemes.refined.site
Custom Domain : ncsc-knowledge-hub.iasme.co.uk
Permissions: Public (no Atlassian login required)
Confluence space: Cyber Essentials Knowledge Hub https://iasme.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CEKH/
Site content is stored in Cyber Essentials Confluence space and placed in CEKH using Confluence ‘excerpt’ and ‘excerpt include’. This includes controlled documents, boilerplate text, and images.
Excerpts
Using /excerpt and /excerptInclude, text can be copied from one page to another. This provides a useful mechanism for copying controlled documents to the Refined pages and ensuring that the text on the Refined pages remains consistent. Any changes made to Master documents will be automatically propagated to the Refined pages. It also means that boilerplate text can be replicated across all relevant pages.
Excerpts also work for images, with one drawback : when links are embedded in images, these are restricted to the link given in the source image. Therefore images used for navigation cannot be create using excerpts and must be inserted manually and any links provided on the navigation page. Only where an image does not contain a link, or the image is only used for a single link specified in the excerpt source, can this method be used.
Main pages
Top page contains links to the sub-areas of the site.
Operating System Support
Contains the end-of-life information for the popular operating systems in an easily-readable form.
The Five Controls
In-depth explanations of the five controls
Scope
What to include in scope of assessment
Tech and Cyber Basics
Explanatory articles about aspects of tech and cyber
Cyber Essentials Glossary
Definitions of common technical words used in the scheme
Sector/Size
Articles by organisation type and size
Advisories
Latest updates to the CE Scheme
Creating Pages
For each page displayed by Refined, there will be a page in the Cyber Essentials Knowledge Hub (CEKH) space and a page in the Cyber Essentials (IGS) space. The CEKH page is created from a template and the content is provided by the IGS page. The template provides a way of creating a standard page layout for each type of page. Templates are stored in the CEKH space and are prefixed with TMPL. They can be viewed and edited via Space settings>Look and feel>Templates.
Pages appear in the Refined site in the same order and with the same page structure as the CEKH space. All pages under the Home page of the space will appear in the Refined site. To prevent a page in the CEKH space from appearing in the Refined site, go to Space settings>Manage content>Reorder and drag the page above the Home page in the list.
To create a page for the Refined site, first add a page in the IGS space under MASTER Knowledge Hub Structure. Select the area you wish to add the page to and click on the + button (“Create a child page”) next to the area main page. The page name should be prefixed with M (indicating Master).
If you had an article entitled ‘Example Article’ that you wanted to place in the Refined site under the Tech and Cyber Basics area, start by creating a page in the IGS Confluence space :
Operating System Support
Purpose is to show the end of life information to a non-technical user in a quick and easy to read manner.
Listed OS : Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS, iOS, Android, ChromeOS, Windows Server
Pages are created using the template TMPL_DeviceSupportPage.
PageProperties ID : pp_PageManagement
Layout containing default graphic via ExcerptInclude ( 800x500_Placeholder from IGS : KH_Images)
ExcerptInclude macro to display DeviceSupportDisclaimer
ExcerptInclude macro to display Master document text for specific OS
Labels: kh_device_support, kh_content_page
Create pages:
>Create page
>Create from template TMPL_DeviceSupportPage :
>Type TMPL to get template list (Cyber Essentials Knowledge Hub space)
>Select TMPL_DeviceSupportPage
>Set Page Title to Operating System name
>Select ExcerptInclude image
>Click Edit (pencil logo)
>Source page is IGS : KH_OSImages, excerpts are named by OS
>Select excerpt name in dropdown and tick Remove border panel, Save
>Select ExcerptInclude text
>Click Edit (pencil logo)
>Source page is IGS : Master (currently in https://iasme.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IGS/pages/2643493059/Refined+OS+Support+pages# )
>Select excerpt name in dropdown and tick Remove border panel, Save
>Select page in Confluence navigation bar, click … and select Copy Link
>Go to Device Support navigation page
>Click edit and click relevant image, Edit link, and paste link
All pages created from TMPL_DeviceSupportPage are given the labels kh_device_support and kh_content_page
They have PageProperty macros containing Subject (DeviceSupport) and Type (Operating System name)