BackBox is more than an operating system, it is a Free Open Source Community Project with the aim of promoting the culture of security in IT environment and give its contribution to make it better and safer. All this using exclusively Free Open Source Software, demonstrating the potential and power of the Community.
Customer Reviews
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Advanced user of BackBox.orgOpen Source Penetration Testing Operating System that is private, secure and powerful, While being completely free. The ability to customize all aspects of this OS but being able to run out of the box, is bar none. From noobs to pros; Kali may no longer be king.
I dislike that BackBox is built on Ubuntu, Though, this is a personal preference. The other thing i dislike is the oversimplified settings, they go from minimal to advanced.. with no in between. Creating frustration for Advanced users or Confusion for rookies.
I would definitely try Kali LInux, Parrot and BackBox all together and choose one to go with. Because, although they are all flavors of Linux, they do have subtle differences and once you start learning the ins and outs, you don't want to have to go back. And Honestly, You will most likely want to use BackBox even if you already know another pentesting distro. Have Fun, Keep Trying
The business problems that backbox.org solves is the ability to download VM image , Or full ISO of the Stable and Open source Pentesting OS - BackBox. The benefits of a SAFE, Open source, powerful pen-testing distribution are immense. Being able to quickly download a OS with all of the normal Penetration testing tools pre-installed, that is clean and free of Malware / Freeware / Tracking Software is priceless. As Security is the number one priority,
