Kali Linux

As a SaaS company we must perform regular security scans to ensure our servers are up to date and configured properly. We use Kali's security tools for this purpose.

Kali Linux is a great operating system that comes preinstalled with a ton of tools that can be used for penetration testing.

I started using Kali when taking security courses. Building a Test Lab and using ti to test and harden the security of the network.

Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux OS, and it has a variety of tools and utilities for a Network Engineer and Pentester to perform a real-life Network scan and analyze the traffic through my organization's Network. It checks if any malicious traffic doesn't pass through using the Linux firewall "iptables", where iptables is a daemon process consists of a set of security rules to analyze the traffic protocols in the application layer or even in lower layers. It provides a range of tools for Security purposes to scan a network like Nmap, OWASP's ZAP, BURP, and many more.

As a consultant working for a consulting company, this flavour of Linux called Kali Linux is being used across by several customers of ours. We also use for Kali Linux in few of our in house off shore development centers within the organization. The main goals for using Kali Linux is for high security and penetration testing with in and across various departments.

Kali Linux is used by my organization's security consultants and specialists to perform and verify applications vulnerabilities, perform random testing, and simulating trainings for new hires to be familiarised with company security policies, process and practices.