Item: Kali Linux
Rating: 9
Author: Om Khard

Overall Satisfaction with Kali Linux

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Port analyses
Hosting any website
Using system as a proxy server
More secure than Windows

Cons

To make the Graphical interface more interactive, because Linux distros are more tend to be used in CLI.

Most Important Features

Proxying
Making as a Server
Port Analyses
Scanning
Enumeration in binary , hex , or octal or even in ascii every tools are available

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.