Kali Linux

Kali Linux

30 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kali Linux	Score7.3 out of 10	N/A	Kali Linux is an open source, advanced penetration testing platform supported by Offensive Security headquartered in New York.	N/A

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	Kali Linux
Considered Both Products	Offensive Security Verified User Chose Kali Linux The hard feature to be beat Kali with is the amount of preinstalled tools. I.e. Ubuntu is great but you would have to install each and every tool separately. Incentivized Helpful? Dave King Director of IT in Information Technology at Preis PLC (Law Practice, 51-200 employees) Chose Kali Linux I would say the number one competitor to Kali is Parrot OS. While they both do the same/similar things, both have over 600 pre-loaded tools. Parrot does use some more offer what may be considered a more intuitive user interface. Parrot OS has been around for longer than people … Incentivized Helpful? Om Khard Network Engineer in Information Technology at Freelancing (Computer Networking, 1-10 employees) Chose Kali Linux I will Stack Kali Linux at the top of among to its similar devices. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Kali Linux As Parrot security OS is relatively new to the game, Kali Linux has an edge as it is in the market since 2013. Kali Linux has an advantage that it is opensource and has good back end technical support by open source developers worldwide. Also Parrot security OS is based on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Kali Linux Different suite of tools and need of specialists to be familiar with the tools to use the best features. Most of the users will be familiar with Kali Linux compared with Blackbox. But easy to switch between the two and is more to complement with each other on the areas needed … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
	100% Delivers good value for the price 6 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
100% Implementation went as expected 6 Answers

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User Ratings
	Kali Linux
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kali Linux
Likelihood to Recommend	Offensive Security Kali is quite honestly appropriate for use on a Test Lab, a Virtual Machine, it will even run on a Raspberry Pi. It is the most popular tool used in most all training courses. It can be uses in home labs, work labs and production environments to perform real life scans for vulnerabilities among other things. It is the most popular tool for Cybersecurity tool. Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review
Pros	Offensive Security Provides high security. Does great job with penetration testing. Has good number of testing tools with in. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Offensive Security Usage wise, it is tough for use by beginners. Can be improved. With Kali Linux have noticed driver related issues especially with Nvidia graphics cards. Kali Linux can be improved for use as a day to day OS. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Offensive Security The hard feature to be beat Kali with is the amount of preinstalled tools. I.e. Ubuntu is great but you would have to install each and every tool separately Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Offensive Security 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. Incentivized Om Khard Network Engineer Read full review
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