It’s portable - you can carry Kali Linux in your pocket and have it running in minutes on an available system.

It’s customizable - you can roll your own custom Kali Linux ISO image and put it onto a USB drive using the same procedures.

It’s potentially persistent - with a bit of extra effort, you can configure your Kali Linux “live” USB drive to have persistent storage, so the data you collect is saved across reboots.

In order to do this, we first need to create a bootable USB drive which has been set up from an ISO image of Kali Linux. The specifics of this procedure will vary depending on whether you’re doing it on a Linux, macOS/OS X, or Windows system.

What You’ll NeedĪ verified copy of the appropriate ISO image of the latest Kali build image for the system you’ll be running it on. If you’re running under Windows, there is not one tool that is considered the overall best for imaging. We recommend Etcher (installer or portable) as it is simpler to use, however Rufus is another popular option with its advance options.

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