Kali Linux Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kali is well suited for the following:

<ul><li> Analyzing SSL certs to verify

they are installed correctly</li><li> Analyzing SSL configuration on

servers to confirm correct ciphers are enabled</li><li>Scanning our web servers for

vulnerabilities as part of our regular security testing </li><li> Scanning wordpress sites to

identify out of date plugins and other potential security issues. </li><li> Running port scans on our servers

to make sure only certain ports are open</li></ul>It is not appropriate for users who aren't already familiar with cybersecurity. Kali is an advanced OS geared for cybersecurity applications.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Kali OS is excellent for what is what built for. The OS comes with 600 preinstalled tools with a wide variety of capabilities. Most of the time I have used Kali Linux I don't use a majority of the tools so it would be beneficial for a lighter weight option. Install and update takes a good amount of time due to the amount of tools.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited for:

<ol><li>Penetration Testing</li><li>System Admin</li><li>Syslog analyses</li><li>Network Admin.</li><li>Web Hosting</li></ol>Less Appropriate here:

<ol><li>GUI is not so interactive.</li></ol>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kali Linux is especially well suited in environments where high security is needed for your custom developed applications. This is well suited for offensive testing your high security in house developed applications. It is also very good for doing penetration testing on in house developed applications and safe guarding them from external attackers. Kali Linux is tough for use as a day to day Linux operating system as this was never intended to be used by beginners and occasional Linux users.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

The tools are useful to guide security specialists to perform PT and scanning of the applications. Users do not need much training to start using the tools and explanations in place to guide the users when they are using the tools. Most of the time results are valid and be repeated again and again to demonstrate the vulnerabilities.