Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Ultimate Penetration Testing platform?
You can't have a pentest platform without BOTH Windows and Linux in the mix. There are too many tools that are either exclusive to one platform or the other, OR there are serious performance issues on a particular platform - nmap on Windows come to mind.
I have tried various setups including VMWare, unixutils, native ports of *nix tools, Co-Linux & cygwin on Windows and VMWare & Wine on Linux and dual boot setups.
I think I have found the best of both worlds, Windows base (2003 server) with andLinux. andLinux is built on Co-Linux with KDE (or xfce). Co-Linux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows.
AndLinux is built on Co-Linux and Ubuntu. It behaves exactly like a normal Ubuntu box and can use any Ubuntu repository. It allows KDE application windows to co-mingle with Windows, giving you the best of both worlds.
It is working so well that I am going to delete my Linux partition on my pentest platform. Linux will always be primary OS for everything else though.
I have tried various setups including VMWare, unixutils, native ports of *nix tools, Co-Linux & cygwin on Windows and VMWare & Wine on Linux and dual boot setups.
I think I have found the best of both worlds, Windows base (2003 server) with andLinux. andLinux is built on Co-Linux with KDE (or xfce). Co-Linux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows.
AndLinux is built on Co-Linux and Ubuntu. It behaves exactly like a normal Ubuntu box and can use any Ubuntu repository. It allows KDE application windows to co-mingle with Windows, giving you the best of both worlds.
It is working so well that I am going to delete my Linux partition on my pentest platform. Linux will always be primary OS for everything else though.
Labels: Linux, Penetration Testing, Windows
