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94 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Reviews
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2022
It's free and Linux based.
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Sep 2022
Kali Linux Easy to use
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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
Mohamed F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2022
A standard Pentesting OS
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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