Preparing for the penetration test
As we moved through Chapter 1, Choosing a Pen Test Platform, and Chapter 2, Preparing for Battle, we crafted a lean, mean, penetration testing machine. The Raspberry Pi 3 is a very capable platform on its own - with the extended SD card we have installed, we can even install the full Kali Linux distribution. This is a great option for training, but the real-world penetration testing demands will mean that we likely will deploy multiple sensors and orchestrate our testing from afar. In cases where more processing intensive tasking are concerned, we need to accept that the Raspberry Pi 3 cannot do this alone.
The platform isn't the only consideration. Much of what we need the Pi to do in our penetration test will ...
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