Preparation is the key to everything. It becomes even more important when working on a penetration testing engagement, where you get a limited amount of time to do the reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, and finally gain access and present the customer with a detailed report. Each penetration test that you conduct would be different in nature and would require a different approach from a test that you earlier conducted. Tools play a major role in it, and you need to prepare your toolkit beforehand and have hands-on experience of all the tools that you will need to execute the test.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Overview of Kali Linux and changes from the previous version
Different ways of installing Kali Linux
Virtualization versus installation on physical hardware
Walkthrough and configuration of important tools in Kali Linux
Installing Tor and configuration