Beginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux: Computational Techniques for Resolving Security Issues

© Sanjib Sinha 2018

Sanjib SinhaBeginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linuxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3891-2_2

2. Setting Up a Penetration Testing and Network Security Lab

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

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Howrah, West Bengal, India

 

When you’re going to be doing penetration testing or hacking-related testing, it is necessary to build a lab because you cannot experiment on a live system. Therefore, you need a virtual environment, also known as a hypervisor . For Linux users, VirtualBox is a great solution; KVM is also good. For Windows, VMware Player is a good solution; Windows Virtual PC is also good, but you cannot run Linux distributions in it. For macOS, both QEMU and Parallels are good options.

For beginners, I suggest sticking to either VirtualBox or ...