![]() This may in turn lead to further complications such as compile errors, dependencies issues, configuration errors, or simply acquiring additional tools may not be practical in the tester’s context. This is useful because the penetration tester does not have to hunt down a tool when it is required. Distributions typically contains pre-packaged and pre-configured set of tools. There are several operating system distributions, which are geared towards performing penetration testing. A Penetration Testing Linux is a special built Linux distro that can be used for analyzing and evaluating security measures of a target system. A penetration test, or the short form pentest, is an attack on a computer system with the intention of finding security weaknesses, potentially gaining access to it, its functionality and data. ![]()
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