Samurai Web Testing Framework

[k3eper]

Afternoon all,

Now I’m a big backtrack fan, but my boss is now telling me he doesn’t think Backtrack is the best suite to be using and thinks my training funds are better off else ware. He would like my interests invested into the Samurai framework suite.

Now this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it would be great if some if not all the tools could me moved into backtrack to cover all areas of pentesting. Below is a link describing the tools for those that don’t know what Samurai is.
http://www.pentestit.com/2009/05/18/...ing-framework/

[lupin]

Afternoon all,

Now I’m a big backtrack fan, but my boss is now telling me he doesn’t think Backtrack is the best suite to be using and thinks my training funds are better off else ware. He would like my interests invested into the Samurai framework suite.

Now this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it would be great if some if not all the tools could me moved into backtrack to cover all areas of pentesting. Below is a link describing the tools for those that don’t know what Samurai is.
http://www.pentestit.com/2009/05/18/...ing-framework/

Both BackTrack and Samurai are just collections of Open Source pentesting tools. Samurai is focused on web pentesting, but when I did a comparison of the two distros two years ago I found that most of the tools that I actually wanted to use on Samurai were already on BackTrack, plus BackTrack has a lot of stuff for network and wireless pentesting that Samurai doesn't. Of the two, Backtrack definitely provides a better tool coverage.

If there are tools missing from BackTrack that you would like, you should specifically list them here so they can be added. I'm pretty sure that BackTrack has the majority of the tools listed on that page you linked to.

Does your boss have any justification as to why Samurai is "better"?

[purehate]

Pretty sure every tool on that list is in bt with the exception of siege

[Focaccia]

well...not always the leader, is the head because he is the smartest...

[Archangel-Amael]

With samurai you get siege, and gnome. Perhaps the nifty wallpaper.
Other than that BT has you covered. Maybe you can point your boss to this thread and let him know.

[k3eper]

Thanks for the response gents, ill build a case on BT use .