Cobalt Offensive Security Testing vs. Kali Linux

Cobalt Offensive Security Testing

Kali Linux

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cobalt Offensive Security Testing	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Cobalt’s Offensive Security Platform aims to modernize traditional pentesting. By combining a SaaS platform with an exclusive community of testers, the service aims to deliver real-time insights needed to remediate risk and innovate securely.	N/A
Kali Linux	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Kali Linux is an open source, advanced penetration testing platform supported by Offensive Security headquartered in New York.	N/A

Pricing

Cobalt Offensive Security Testing

Kali Linux

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cobalt Offensive Security Testing	Kali Linux
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Cobalt Credits™ is a flexible consumption model where pentests are sold in groups and redeemed easily throughout the year for a continuous and carefree pentesting experience.

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User Ratings
	Cobalt Offensive Security Testing	Kali Linux
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cobalt Offensive Security Testing	Kali Linux
Likelihood to Recommend	Cobalt Labs, Inc No answers on this topic	Offensive Security Kali is quite honestly appropriate for use on a Test Lab, a Virtual Machine, it will even run on a Raspberry Pi. It is the most popular tool used in most all training courses. It can be uses in home labs, work labs and production environments to perform real life scans for vulnerabilities among other things. It is the most popular tool for Cybersecurity tool. Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review
Pros	Cobalt Labs, Inc No answers on this topic	Offensive Security Provides high security. Does great job with penetration testing. Has good number of testing tools with in. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cobalt Labs, Inc No answers on this topic	Offensive Security Usage wise, it is tough for use by beginners. Can be improved. With Kali Linux have noticed driver related issues especially with Nvidia graphics cards. Kali Linux can be improved for use as a day to day OS. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cobalt Labs, Inc No answers on this topic	Offensive Security The hard feature to be beat Kali with is the amount of preinstalled tools. I.e. Ubuntu is great but you would have to install each and every tool separately Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Cobalt Labs, Inc No answers on this topic	Offensive Security Till now Kali Linux have not made a single penny negative impact on our companies business , its so powerful and useful at the same time for our company. Incentivized Om Khard Network Engineer Read full review
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