Chapter 10. Visualizing with Armitage

"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not" - Ashton Kutcher

We covered how to speed up the penetration testing process in the last chapter. Let's continue with a great tool that can also be used to speed up a penetration test.

Armitage is a GUI tool that acts as an attack manager for Metasploit. Armitage visualizes Metasploit operations and recommends exploits as well. Armitage is most capable of providing shared access and team management to Metasploit.

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