


Offensive Security currently funds and supports Kalin Linux. The first iteration of Kali Linux was Kali 1.0.0 was introduced in March 2013.

Kali Linux contains several hundred tools that are well-designed towards various information security tasks, such as penetration testing, security research, computer forensics and reverse engineering.īackTrack was their previous information security Operating System. It was developed through rewriting of BackTrack by Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns of Offensive Security. Kali Linux is a security distribution of Linux derived from Debian and specifically designed for computer forensics and advanced penetration testing.
