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Offensive Security

Kali Linux Penetration Testing

Composite Score

8.3 /10

CX Score

8.7 /10

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What is Kali Linux Penetration Testing?

Offensive Security provides practitioners with the highly sought-after skills required to advance their careers and better protect their organizations. We’re committed to funding and growing Kali Linux, the most widely used operating system for penetration testing, ethical hacking and network security assessments.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Ratings

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95 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+97 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

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Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Host Target Scanning

Diversity of Tools

Automation

Exploits

Reconnaissance

Crawling

Multi Faceted Testing

Maintaining Access

Payload Transport

Reporting

Countermeasures Circumvention

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Kali Linux Penetration Testing Reviews

Mohamed F.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Aug 2022

A standard Pentesting OS

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Kali Linux Penetration Testing from other similar products?

Kali Linux has a persistent live boot mode and a forensic mode where we can carry a handy OS in a USB stick and we can run it from any system. It will be very useful in terms of Cyber Incident Investigations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's a powerful OS for anyone who is into Cyber Security. It provides high-level security & stability. Even there is a bug reporting platform where we can report if we come across any bugs in the OS and they will take immediate action on those bugs and we can see that those bugs will be fixed in the next release.

What do you dislike most about this product?

For sure it will be not beginner friendly, and even it won't fit for Everyday use as the OS lags in terms of Documentation and basic Professional work. But obviously one of the best OS in the market for Pentesting.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You can go for it. You can find most of the required tools are pre-installed there.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Yavuz Gökhan Ö.

Role: Finance
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Fantastic Product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Kali Linux Penetration Testing from other similar products?

It has more tools than the other distros

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Debian based distro

What do you dislike most about this product?

they should improve kali nethunter

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

you can find any tool whatever you need for pentest

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Effective Service
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Jean P.

Role: Student Academic
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

Performing e-mail phishing security test

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Kali Linux Penetration Testing from other similar products?

Kali Linux is a complte solution when it comes to ethical hacking, vulnerability assessments and penetration testing. The difference lies in the Kali Linux community and huge Knowledge-Base resources available. Kali Linux is one of of the most stable OS, as well as being secured. hen I first started using Kali Linux, I was impressed with how complete this tools was: I could anonymize my device by changing the MAC address via a simple command by using macchanger. I could also send e-mail phishing security tests within 5 minutes, something which could have taken hours by using other services.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The fact that their are pre-build images of Kali Linux, ready to be installed on virtual machines like VMWare or VirtualBox makes it faster for the IT security specialist to deploy a clean instance and perform his pentest assignments. The fact that Kali is bootable from a USB device is also great. Last but not least, the features for information gathering as well as computer forensics are numerous. Kali Linux being available on the AWS marketing makes it a unique and powerful penetration testing OS.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Kali Linux provides checksums of the downloaded image files, which provide added security. I believe that there should be an additional way of doing this. Otherwise, I have no dislike as such, for Kali Linux is amazing. A recommendation would be to provide updated weekly video tutorials.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are looking forward to a career in the cybersecurity sector, Kali Linux is a must. You will get the tools to investigate, anonymize, and in some cases launch authorized attacks for your penetration testing tasks. Kali Linux is the most powerful OS in my opinion. To be used with great responsibility however.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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95 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Kali Linux Penetration Testing?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Host Target Scanning Ability to scan across a defined spectrum, including port numbers, protocols, IP address ranges, etc.​

Diversity of Tools Penetration testing software often come in a suite of individual tools, each designed to penetrate different aspects of a system.

Automation Able to automate regressive testing and perform repeat tasks in a very rapid fashion (as fast as the target system’s hardware will allow).​

Exploits Simulates the exploits that will likely be implemented once the system is penetrated.

Reconnaissance Analysis of the target system to gather information order to assess its susceptibility to attack, and to plan for the attack strategy.

Crawling Once a system has been penetrated, crawling should occur to determine how far unauthorized access has extended.

Multi Faceted Testing Penetration testing tools should have the ability to test a wide range of platforms, systems and applications.

Maintaining Access Maintaining persistent access to the application or system with the rationale being, the longer a hacker has access to a system, the more damage they can do.

Payload Transport The penetration software should mimic hackers' ability to gain unauthorized access in order to drop harmful payload (e.g. malicious code) onto a target system.

Reporting Reporting of both strengths and vulnerabilities of the target system.

Countermeasures Circumvention The pen testing tool should perform like a hacker employing techniques to circumvent countermeasures aimed to prevent a security risk.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Kali Linux Penetration Testing Reviews

Mohamed F.

A standard Pentesting OS

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Yavuz Gökhan Ö.

Fantastic Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Jean P.

Performing e-mail phishing security test

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Host Target Scanning

Diversity of Tools

Automation

Exploits

Reconnaissance

Crawling

Multi Faceted Testing

Maintaining Access

Payload Transport

Reporting

Countermeasures Circumvention

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support