Introduction

Kali was first introduced in 2012 with a completely new architecture. This Debian-based distro was released with over 300 tools specialized for penetration testing and digital forensics. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd with core developers being Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns, and Raphael Hertzog.

Kali 2.0 came into the picture in 2016 with tons of new updates and new desktop environments such as KDE, Mate, LXDE, e17, and Xfce builds.

While Kali is already pre-equipped with hundreds of amazing tools and utilities to help penetration testers around the globe to perform their job efficiently, in this chapter, we will primarily cover some custom tweaks that can be used to have an even better pentesting experience for the users.