


Previously known by the name of Backtrack, they advertised Kali as a more polished successor with more testing-centric tools, unlike Backtrack which had multiple tools that would serve the same purpose, in turn, making it jampacked with unnecessary utilities.

Mati Aharoni and Deavon Kearns are the core developers of Kali Linux. Kali Linux is developed, funded, and maintained by Offensive Security, a leading information security training company. Kali Linux contains several hundred tools that are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics, and Reverse Engineering. Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing.
