• BackTrack

BackTrack is a distribution based off of what used to be WHAX and Auditor . It is a full size distro built off of SLAX.

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• Damn Vulnerable Linux ( DVL )

"Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a Linux-based tool for IT-Security. It was initiated for training tasks during university lessons
by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and S²e - Secure Software Engineering in
cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team." - DamnVulnerableLinux.org

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DEFT (acronym of "Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customized distribution of the Kubuntu live Linux CD.
It is a very easy to use system that includes excellent hardware detection and the best open source applications
dedicated to incident response and computer forensics. -Deft.yourside.it

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"grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially
for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a
harddisk, you don't even need a harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1 GiB of software
and documentation on the CD."
-http://grml.org/

"a bootable distribution containing all the tools and materials needed for practising methods and techniques described in the
hackin9 magazine"
-http://www.hakin9.org/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live-

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• Helix

"Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix is more than just a bootable live CD. You can still boot
into a customized Linux environment that includes customized linux kernels, excellent hardware detection and many
applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics."
-http://www.e-fense.com/helix/-

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• KCPentrix ( 6 items )

" The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing
toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators" - KCPentrix.com

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• Knoppix-NSM

"knoppix-nsm is dedicated to providing a framework for individuals wanting to learn about Network Security Monitoring or who
want to qucikly and reliably deploy NSM in their network. Our goal is to provide an introduction to NSM and a distribution that
can be used as a launch pad to bigger things." -www.securixlive.com

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• nUbuntu

"The main goal of nUbuntu is to create a distribution which is derived from the Ubuntu distribution, and add packages related
to security testing, and remove unneeded packages, such as Gnome, Openoffice.org, and Evolution." - nubuntu.org

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• NST ( Network Security Toolkit ) ( 1 items )

"This bootable ISO live CD is based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open
Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms." -networksecuritytoolkit.org

Status: Active

• OWASP LabRat ( 5 items )

"The OWASP Live CD (LabRat) is a bootable CD akin to knoppix but dedicated to Application Security. It shall serve as a
vehicle and distrubition medium for OWASP tools and guides." -OWASP.org

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• Protech ( 4 items )

Protech is a specially designed Linux distribution for security technicians and programmers.
It's imcomparable usability and stability makes this a unique product. -Techm4sters

• Arudius ( 4 items )

Arudius is a Linux live CD with tools that try to address the network security aspect (penetration testing and vulnerability
analysis) of information assurance. It is based on Slackware (Zenwalk) for i386 systems and targets the information security
audience.

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• Auditor ( 2 items )

"The Auditor security collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is
started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes. Independent of the hardware in use, the Auditor
security collection offers a standardised working environment, so that the build-up of know-how and remote support is made
easier." - http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_main-

• FIRE ( 2 items )
"FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform
forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment."
-http://fire.dmzs.com-

• INSERT ( 4 items )

"INSERT is a complete, bootable linux system. It comes with a graphical user interface running the fluxbox window manager
while still being sufficiently small to fit on a credit card-sized CD-ROM."
-http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html-

• Knoppix-STD ( 5 items )

"STD is a Linux-based Security Tool. Actually, it is a collection of hundreds if not thousands of open source security tools. It's
a Live Linux Distro, which means it runs from a bootable CD in memory without changing the native operating system of the
host computer." - http://www.knoppix-std.org/-

• LAS ( Local Area Security ) ( 1 items )

LAS ( Local Area Security )

• Frenzy ( 2 items )

"Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware
tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. Size of ISO-image is 200 MBytes (3" CD)"
-http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/

• NavynOs ( 1 items )

"Navyn OS is a gnu/linux distribution based on Gentoo. Gentoo isn't a typical distribution like Debian or Slackware, it doesn't
even have an installer, it is similar to making your own distribution. The main part of Gentoo is portage, a set of scripts for
installing and removing programs." -http://navynos.linux.pl/
Status: Inactive

• Operator ( 2 items )
• Pentoo ( 3 items )

"Pentoo is a penetration testing LiveCD distribution based on Gentoo. It features a lot of tools for auditing and testing a
network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities."
-http://www.pentoo.ch/-PENTOO-.html-

Status: Inactive

• PHLAK ( 3 items )

"PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution (a.k.a LiveCD). PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4),
many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex
de Landgraaf." - http://www.phlak.org/modules/news/-

• PLAC ( 1 items )
"PLAC is a business card sized bootable cdrom running linux. It has network auditing, disk recovery, and forensic analysis
tools. ISO will be avialable and scripts to roll you own cd."
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/plac/-
• Plan-B ( 3 items )

"Plan-B is a bootable Linux environment without the need for a hard drive, it runs entirely in ram or from the cd, based on a
basic, stripped installation of Red Hat Linux and the fundamental workings of the SuperRescue CD. A list of tools and utilities
are also included for projects such as:

o Forensics/Data Recovery
o System/Network Analysis and Security Scanning
o Temporary Network Device/Server
o IDS / NIDS System
o Network Status Report Creation"

-http://www.projectplanb.org/

• SENTINIX ( 2 items )

"SENTINIX is a GNU/Linux distribution designed for monitoring, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment,
statistics/graphing and anti-spam. It's completely free; free to use, free to modify and free to distribute. SENTINIX includes the
following software, installed and pre-configured; Nagios, Nagat, Snort, SnortCenter, ACID, Cacti, RRDTool, Nessus,
 Postfix, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, openMosix, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python and lots more."
-http://sentinix.tigerteam.se/

Talos ( 2 items )

"Talos is a security LiveCD, based on SLAX 5.1.0 with over 90 security tools preinstalled. It runs directly from the
CD without the need to install on the harddisk. Talos is currently on BETA version 0.1 and its available to
download." -ISafe.gr

• ThePacketMaster ( 1 items )

ThePacketMaster

Trinux ( 1 items )

"Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an
HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies."
-http://trinux.sourceforge.net/-