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Kali Linux

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What is Kali Linux?

Kali Linux is an open source, advanced penetration testing platform supported by Offensive Security headquartered in New York.

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What is Kali Linux?

Kali Linux is an open source, advanced penetration testing platform supported by Offensive Security headquartered in New York.

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Kali Linux has been widely utilized by users for various purposes. It serves as a valuable tool for building test labs and testing network security. Network engineers and pentesters find Kali Linux particularly useful as it provides a wide range of tools and utilities for performing real-life network scans and analyzing network traffic. The system offers features to check for and prevent malicious traffic from infiltrating networks using the Linux firewall 'iptables'. Security-conscious SaaS companies rely on Kali Linux's security tools like Nmap, OWASP's ZAP, BURP, and more to conduct regular security scans, ensuring their servers are up to date and properly configured. Consulting companies and their clients also utilize Kali Linux for high-security testing across different departments. With its preinstalled security-focused tools, Kali Linux proves to be an excellent operating system choice for security consultants and specialists. Additionally, the software enables organizations to validate application vulnerabilities, perform random testing, and simulate training scenarios to familiarize new hires with company security policies and practices.

Users who have experience with Linux as an operating system for cybersecurity professionals highly recommend Linux to colleagues, friends, testers, ethical hackers, security analysts, network admins, bug and vulnerability analysts. They suggest starting with other Linux distributions before using Linux for beginners to ensure a smoother transition. Additionally, they emphasize the importance of going through the official website documentation of Linux thoroughly before installing and configuring it. These recommendations can help individuals in the cybersecurity field learn and practice ethical hacking, network testing, and programming effectively.

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Om Khard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
  • Port analyses
  • Hosting any website
  • Using system as a proxy server
  • More secure than Windows
  • To make the Graphical interface more interactive, because Linux distros are more tend to be used in CLI.
Well Suited for:
  1. Penetration Testing
  2. System Admin
  3. Syslog analyses
  4. Network Admin.
  5. Web Hosting
Less Appropriate here:
  1. GUI is not so interactive.
  • Proxying
  • Making as a Server
  • Port Analyses
  • Scanning
  • Enumeration in binary , hex , or octal or even in ascii every tools are available
  • 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.
I will Stack Kali Linux at the top of among to its similar devices.
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  • Network Analyses
  • Web Hosting
5
basic Terminal skills , bash , OS knowledge and basic networking.
  • networking
  • Pentesting
  • Admins
  • Hosting
  • networking
  • networking
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