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What OS

  • 22-06-2015 9:21pm
    #1
    Volovo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭


    For those of you working in infosec, I'm curious to know what operating system you use for your job? Do certain tasks require a specific OS or does your employer provide and insist on a specific OS? I'm just interested to know what the norms are in the industry.. Kali Linux seems like an obvious choice, but how many use this in practice?

    P.S. Please don't start a war over which OS is better or attack anyone for their choice. Be cool! :cool:


Comments

  • #2
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Our place is a Windows house, so I've 2 Win 7 laptops, both of which have Kali & Cuckoo VM's for analysing any dodgy stuff. I also have a third Kali laptop dedicated to red team stuff and another instance of Kali sitting up in AWS so I can test tunnelling stuff out.

    Along with that, a few other VMs sitting around for playing with things like Server stuff or Win 10.

    Realistically I use Kali out of the sheer laziness of not wanting to have to install so many tools.


  • #3
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    Windows house too, so very standard build from work of Windows used for most day to day work, machines are fairly open so we do add a bit of our own commonly used stuff.

    We have loads of workstations and various laptops of different capacities then running variety of OS's for different tasks, different machines for pen testing/forensics for example, aswell as other resources like an ESXI server should we want it

    Home laptop is a MAC, ideal work laptop would be a MacBook with plenty of RAM/power for spinning up VM's in it and then secondary laptops for specific testing etc.


  • #4
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Work laptop is a MacBook Pro. I prefer pen testing from Linux and when possible prefer to use Fedora or CentOS for this so I have a VM with fedora on it.

    <Controversial Opinion>

    I dont like Kali. I dont think its QA'ed to as high a standard as other distros. If Im having problems with a tool, I prefer to use an established high quality Distro I can rely on, instead of wondering if the problems Im having are the tool or the OS.


  • #5
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    I'd agree with your controversial opinion, however I found installing some pentesting apps in ubuntu to be a pain in the face (where normally ubuntu installation is a dream).


  • #6
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Khannie wrote: »
    I'd agree with your controversial opinion, however I found installing some pentesting apps in ubuntu to be a pain in the face (where normally ubuntu installation is a dream).

    Sure thats all part of the fun. Cryptic error messages, and undocumented required libraries.


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