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What do you like best about BlackArch?

The Net Installer enables you to fabricate your establishment starting with no outside help. This enables you to confine the additional product required and run a lean, mean, pentest machine. I welcome the responsiveness and absence of overhead asset use. The capacity to disregard the gui and work 100% CLI is astounding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

There is as of now nothing in the distro that I loathe. It is finished and straight-forward, however not for the uninitiated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BlackArch:

Guarantee you are exceptionally acquainted with linux and its different subtleties. Despite the fact that a GUI is accessible, information of the CLI is an absolute necessity to utilize this distro without limit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Interior and outside entrance and security testing for our corporate and satellite workplaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BlackArch Overview

What is BlackArch?

BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.

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BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.


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Recent BlackArch Reviews

Raghav R.
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Raghav R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"BlackArch Linux: The ultimate Penetration Testing Distro or overkill"
BlackArch is its massive collection of security tools, covering everything from reconnaissance and exploitation to forensic and reverse engineering.
Mahmud H.
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Mahmud H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"A Great Alternative to Kali linux"
Being arch based it supports PAC-man resulting in easier handling of packages. This with addition of integrated applications for pentesting results...
Ambrish M.
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Ambrish M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A very useful and fun distro to use."
Very easy to deploy as compared to other distross in the market requires minimal configuration, easy to install and very good for penetration testi...
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Raghav R.
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What do you like best about BlackArch?

BlackArch is its massive collection of security tools, covering everything from reconnaissance and exploitation to forensic and reverse engineering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

It's based on Arch Linux so it requires more knowledge to set up and maintain compared to kali. Overall BlackArch is ideal for advanced users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

BlackArch is mostly used for penetration testers, security researchers and ethical hackers. I don't have to install tolls because it's already come with pre-installed lots of tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahmud H.
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What do you like best about BlackArch?

Being arch based it supports PAC-man resulting in easier handling of packages. This with addition of integrated applications for pentesting results in a overall good alternative that is both viable and usable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

No gui for installation which can be a major issue for some. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was using BlackArch as an alternative to Kali for pentesting purposes, being familiar with Arch it was quite a smooth transition for me, as it is quite lightweight I did not have to worry about sytstem requirements as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ambrish M.
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What do you like best about BlackArch?

Very easy to deploy as compared to other distross in the market requires minimal configuration, easy to install and very good for penetration testing. It is focused on pentesting and hacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

Requires some updates and hope it will enhance the user experience of this distro.Needs to be marketed as compared to kali linux. Because it is a linux distro so it would be updated soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very useful in Information security and penetration testing and can be installed on a lowest configuration laptop or pc which is very beneficial to anycompany using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

Using BlackArch give the access to everysingle port in your computer or even switches connected to your network . it has a very powerfull APIs that makes the professional user work easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

the biggest ussue with blackArch is it's interface looks so difficult to use for normal people and there isn't many documentations or videos tutorials on youtube about how to work with it friendly . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BlackArch:

You must be familiar with linux commands and balckShark special outils . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

for me I use blackArch for testing the vulnerabilty of my network and also test my computer ports and know how to use this ports in transferring data or collecting data in case of hacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

As a pentester I feel most comfortable with BlackArch OS. It includes all of the tools that I need for penetration testing. I have tried many more Linux-based OS but BlackArch is really stable and fast to do all my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

There is nothing that I don't like about it. Only one thing is that it includes so many tools which makes it a little bit confusing to use otherwise there is no issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm a penetration tester and I use it on daily basis for pentesting. Other than pentesting I use it for daily email related work and also using WPS. Using BlackArch, I'm really happy and it makes my work easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

Have more people interested in this platform. People need to hear more about it. People are so distracted by so many things that they are completely attached to. Really we need to share more this platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

What exactly I dislike is when people are completely lost. They already are kipt noticing that. All things in this world are completely interested.

We need share good things to good people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BlackArch:

This is real and unbelievable platform to increase our productsHere we can find number of ideas to support our self. This a good platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Really I haven't no notion. But we need to share more sure products. People are looking for real things. People are looking for good things. That's why we need to show good things to them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

Here's what I like best:

1) Over 2,700 tools in an extensive penetration toolbox

2) Easy to follow user and developer guide

3) The support team is always available by email

4) Free for life Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

There's nothing to dislike! This software is free and open-source, making it widely available and constantly developing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can do pen tests on a wide range of applications faster and easier. Our productivity and business performance and increased significantly as we can confidently deploy all applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

BlackArc is linux based operating system. it is design specially for penetration testing. so it has all the essential tools for penetration testing. so if we use BlackArc we don't need to use multiple system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

It file size is too big so when we use it on virtual machine, it takes lots of computer resource to run. also it has multiple tool with same functionality. that is one of the main reason for the huge file size. if they avoid those kind of tool which has duplicate functionality, it will increase the performance of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BlackArch:

If you are a penetration tester BlackArc is kind of bible for you. Because It gives the solution for your all the needs during the penetration testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

previouly, we had to configure our own operating system by our self. those days we faced lots of technical difficulty to install multiple security testing tool on the single operating system. after we moved to BlackArc we don't face these issues. because it has all needed tool with self and also, it repository has most of the security tool within that. so we can get required tool with simple apt command. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

It is one of the best application for pen testers. Another main advantage of this is interface of this is very user friendly.Easily we can ignore the gui. It is very useful application for Linux developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

Nothing much to tell regarding dislike, Because it is best application than other related applications. Anyway if they offer extra features t is very useful for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BlackArch:

If you are the pen tester. I am highly recommend this to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us to test Internal and external penetrations.And also we are using this for security testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BlackArch?

blackArch covers all the need of penetration tester. if we use blackArch for penetration testing purpose we don't need to search anything on internet because it has all the required tools with self. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BlackArch?

when i use it on virtual machine, my laptop getting too slow because blackArch initial OVA file size is 35GB. so my laptop have to offered much of hardware recourse to virtual machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BlackArch:

if you need to cover all the penetration test need in one place you can blandly choose balckArch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BlackArch solving and how is that benefiting you?

it is kind of bible for penetration tester. with this we can carry out all kind of information security testing such as penetration test, red teaming, exploit development and etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.