Metasploit is one of the most powerful and widely used tools for penetration testing. It is based on the kali linux OS, although it can run on other OS as well, it is mainly used with this OS.
Many enterprises today face regulatory or compliance requirements that mandate regular penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. Commercial tools and services for performing such tests can be expensive. While really solid free tools such as Metasploit, are available, many testers do not understand the comprehensive feature sets of such tools and how to apply them in a professional-grade testing methodology. Metasploit was designed to help testers with confirming vulnerabilities using an Open Source and easy-to-use framework.
An exploitation framework and much more ...
Exposing client and server side exploits
A scanning tool
Malicious content generation
IDS, IPS and antivirus evasion tool
Password Attack tool
Exploitation tool for buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Scanning capabilities to identify flaws in the target machine
As an Ethical Hacker, we will be using “Kali Distribution” which has the Metasploit community version embedded in it along with other ethical hacking tools to help us in finding blind spots in your infrastructure
