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Offensive Security

Kali Linux Penetration Testing

Composite Score

8.5 /10

CX Score

8.8 /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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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

94 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+96 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.

How much do users love Kali Linux Penetration Testing?

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Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 88

Host Target Scanning

Diversity of Tools

Reconnaissance

Crawling

Automation

Multi Faceted Testing

Exploits

Countermeasures Circumvention

Maintaining Access

Payload Transport

Reporting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Kali Linux Penetration Testing Reviews

Naveen J.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Toppest OS of All Time for Pentesters

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Kali Linux Penetration Testing from other similar products?

With Kali Linux, we may carry a useful operating system on a USB stick and use it from any device thanks to its persistent live boot mode and forensic mode. In terms of investigating cyber incidents, it will be quite helpful. Anyone interested in cyber security will find it to be a powerful OS. It offers very high levels of stability and security.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite part is Open-Source. Offensive Security is working a lot and contributing to Open-Source Community.

What do you dislike most about this product?

If all essential tools are pre-installed on the Kali Linux OS, that would be fantastic. because the most recent upgrades do not include programmes like ZAP and several Python libraries. However, these are crucial components of security testing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Just go for it, It suits from Beginners till the Expert level for the Pentesters.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Unique Features

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

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

It's free and Linux based.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies
Vendor's Interest First
Charges for Enhancements

Khushal B.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Kali Linux Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Kali Linux Penetration Testing from other similar products?

Kali Linux is easy to use for your dev environment. also it very smoothly works on low hardware. I'm mostly using virtual environments for containers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

it's very lightweight and almost supports most of the software. when we using on our dev machine. Kali Linux gives you the best performance.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes facing nextworks-related issues in Kali Linux. but when issues are resolved it's working fine.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommend it for containers environment and dev environments.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Ratings

94 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+96 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.

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.

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).​

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

Naveen J.

Toppest OS of All Time for Pentesters

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

It's free and Linux based.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Khushal B.

Kali Linux Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Host Target Scanning

Diversity of Tools

Reconnaissance

Crawling

Automation

Multi Faceted Testing

Exploits

Countermeasures Circumvention

Maintaining Access

Payload Transport

Reporting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support