Kali Linux vs. Nikto

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.

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Nikto is well suited for scanning web server-related vulnerabilities for small and medium enterprises. We can utilise it for checking server default files and security misconfigurations. It is not suited well for some users because it is CLI based tool and not a GUI based. Also, community and OEM support are not available for this tool.

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• Provides high security.
• Does great job with penetration testing.
• Has good number of testing tools with in.

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• Well known tool
• Source code available
• Wweb server vulnerability scanner

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• 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.

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• Can be made GUI based for ease of users
• User community should be there
• Development and support should be available

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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

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• 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.

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• Improved security posture of organisation.
• Improved in regulatory and corporate compliance.
• Easy to use result in adaptation of this tool by business users.

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