What are useful tools for penetration testers?
Burp suite26%
Web application scanners51%
Network vulnerability scanners65%
Exploiting tools (Metasploit)43%
Wireshark19%
SQLmap6%
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Burp suite26%
Web application scanners51%
Network vulnerability scanners65%
Exploiting tools (Metasploit)43%
Wireshark19%
SQLmap6%
90 Days33%
365 Days17%
3 years50%
5 years
7 years
Other (share in the comments)
Strongly agree10%
Agree57%
Neutral11%
Disagree13%
Strongly disagree6%
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I believe all around solution as ad-hoc distro (I am using Kali) are better than the single categories.