Traditionally, the OS is installed on the computer’s disk drive, however, with operating systems like Kali Linux, there’s a capability to install the OS to thumb drives (aka flash drives) and SD cards due to the recent, availability, and affordability of larger capacity devices. Selecting Hard Drive Platform for Information By default Kali Linux has 400 penetration testing and security tools, packages and applications installed and has the power to feature more as they’re needed. The software installed on Kali Linux is one more reason it is uniquely outfitted for the penetration tester.

The system will boot to the live disk instead of the local hard drive that’s if the machine is configured correctly the penetration tester will then have access to several of the resources on the local network, while at an equivalent time not leaving evidence on the local machine’s disk drive. Those with access to local machines on the network can leverage live disks to use these machines albeit the penetration tester doesn’t have an account on the installed OS.

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