Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review It is well suited in a work environment, being that an organization can set up their system to be specifically work related and only certain users can get access is really helpful. I also like that multiple users can log in on the same device and keep each account seperate without interfering with the other.
Read full review Pros Provides high security. Does great job with penetration testing. Has good number of testing tools with in. Read full review Smooth operating system Intuitive user interface Easy integration of other Microsoft products System encryption Very secure Read full review Cons 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. Read full review confusing at first when shut down is under start menu task bar on 2 displays sometimes won't hide automatically even though set that way not so intuitive to set up 2 displays Read full review Usability Works fine until it stops working, then hard to troubleshoot and fix!
Read full review Support Rating support remains spotty, researching online articles are a pain
Read full review Implementation Rating MDT helped deploy OS to users machines via PXE boot.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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
Read full review Because of its compatibility with third-party software requirements.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review Increased productivity Intuitive interface Quick operation Minimal interruption from system processes Read full review ScreenShots