Summary
What a journey! Here in this final chapter of Introduction to Kali Purple, you evaluated the process of automating pentesting through the simulation of cyber-attacks by setting up Kali Autopilot and providing a simple scanning script. Now, you know the basics of creating your own automated attack script.
We also covered a very high-level overview of the Python scripting language, with the expectation that you’d recognize the core components of the majority of Python scripts out there. This should enable you to understand what is going on within any particular script and even give you the ability to edit the script so that it performs to your liking without having to actually know how to write Python code!
Finally, we covered the updated NIST CSF 2.0, which includes the newly added Govern function, and grabbed a basic understanding of each of the NIST functions, including Govern. We learned that the Kali Purple distribution was created with the NIST CSF in mind...
