PentestBox Reviews in 2024

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Developers and IT departments in need of an open source pre-configured portable penetration testing environment solution for testing and debugging systems

About PentestBox

PentestBox is an Opensource PreConfigured Portable Penetration Testing Environment for the Windows Operating System. PentestBox was developed to provide the best penetration testing environment for Windows users. By default PentestBox runs like a normal user, no administrative permission is required to launch it. To make PentestBox more awesome we have also included HTTPie, HTTPie is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized output. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers. PentestBox also contains a modified version of Mozilla Firefox with all the security addons pre installed in it.

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