Kali Linux and the ELK Stack

Now that we’ve gained a basic understanding of the evolution of cybersecurity as a professional field of study and practice, let’s begin to unpack the Kali Purple toolset. You’ll recall our explanation of red and blue colors creating purple on the color wheel. That’s because Kali Purple’s genealogy is a double-pronged utility coming from two suites of technical tools, one associated with the red team and the other with the blue team. We provided an overview of each grouping in the previous chapter. Those lists of tools were not nearly an exhaustive, or complete, list of tools – just the highlights.

In this chapter, we are going to briefly explain Kali Linux for those who might be delving into Linux for the first time. A popular phenomenon has been developed with Kali Purple in that its defensive security offerings are causing some people to pursue experience with the Linux operating system (OS) for the first...