As we moved through Chapter 1, Choosing a Pen Test Platform, and Chapter 2, Preparing for Battle, we crafted a lean, mean, penetration testing machine. The Raspberry Pi 3 is a very capable platform on its own - with the extended SD card we have installed, we can even install the full Kali Linux distribution. This is a great option for training, but the real-world penetration testing demands will mean that we likely will deploy multiple sensors and orchestrate our testing from afar. In cases where more processing intensive tasking are concerned, we need to accept that the Raspberry Pi 3 cannot do this alone.
The platform isn't the only consideration. Much of what we need the Pi to do in our penetration test will hinge on what we are contracted to do, the scope of the effort, and the other tools we may employ to complete the job. Smaller penetration test scopes may be just fine with a single Pi communicating to a C&C server and doing most of the work on...