All that's written in the preceding sections is interesting for people who want to have a "clean" penetration testing platform with only the tools they have chosen and installed. But in the most cases, it is not necessary and we would say is often not worth the time you can spend on it. The convenient solution in this case is using a prepared penetration testing distribution. We have already mentioned it in the beginning of the chapter when we talked about a VM, but let's review the process of creating a bootable penetration testing USB stick.

In our example, we will show you how to create a bootable USB stick with the Kali 2.0 penetration testing distribution on both Windows and Linux systems. If you want to do it quickly and you don't want additional complexity on your USB stick, we would recommend creating it under Windows. But if you want to create a persistent encrypted USB stick, you will need to use Linux and do everything manually. We recommend this because...