Chase the purple dragon
There are people who want to break into networks and machines, and people who try to stop them, known as red teams and blue teams.
QUICK TIP
The best defence against cyberattacks is to keep your system fully updated and all your packages up to date. Keep automatic updates turned on and apply security patches as soon as they’re released.
K
ali Linux has always sat comfortably and firmly in the red team encampment, providing tools to test network security and generally giving blue teams a hard time.
It’s an adversarial approach and one that sees red and blue teams constantly at odds, with defensive security being tested to its limits by the red team.
With Kali Purple, Offensive Security has taken a new approach in attempting to make red and blue teams work together. Red and blue combined is purple. Get it? With Kali Purple, you get a mixture of tools, so you’re no longer manning a machine gun from the trenches or sending waves of bots to get snagged on digital barbed wire. You can take a more nuanced approach.
Stay defensive with Purple
Unlike the main version of Kali, which is designed to be run on anything other than a modern desktop and offers a multitude of installation options, Kali Purple provides no such convenience. There are two options: you can choose the bog standard Kali Purple, which contains everything you need for a complete offline installation, or opt for the weekly build, which offers untested images with the latest updates. Unless you must have bleeding-edge tools at the potential expense of a stable system, avoid the weekly images.