Compare the Top Penetration Testing Tools for Linux as of January 2026

What are Penetration Testing Tools for Linux?

Penetration testing software tools enable security professionals to test applications and IT systems to identify vulnerabilities. Penetration testing tools, sometimes known as "pen testing" tools, can simulate a hack or attack in order to test the security of a given application or system. Compare and read user reviews of the best Penetration Testing tools for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Contrast Security

    Contrast Security

    Contrast Security

    Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Saint Security Suite

    Saint Security Suite

    Carson & SAINT

    This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options. As a vulnerability management solution, SAINT Security Suite’s security research and development efforts focus on investigation, triage, prioritization, and coverage of vulnerabilities of the highest levels of severity and importance. Not willing to settle for just blanket coverage and raw data, our analysts focus on developing tools for what matters to our customers.
    Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user
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    Praetorian Chariot
    Chariot is the first all-in-one offensive security platform that comprehensively catalogs Internet-facing assets, contextualizes their value, identifies and validates real compromise paths, tests your detection response program, and generates policy-as-code rules to prevent future exposures from occurring. As a concierge managed service, we operate as an extension of your team to reduce the burden of day-to-day blocking and tackling. Dedicated offensive security experts are assigned to your account to assist you through the full attack lifecycle. We remove the noise by verifying the accuracy and importance of every risk before ever submitting a ticket to your team. Part of our core value is only signaling when it matters and guaranteeing zero false positives. Gain the upper-hand over attackers by partnering Praetorian. We put you back on the offensive by combining security expertise with technology automation to continuously focus and improve your defensive.
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    Kroll Cyber Risk
    We are the world incident response leader. Merging complete response capabilities with frontline threat intelligence from over 3000 incidents handled per year and end-to-end expertise we protect, detect and respond against cyberattacks. For immediate assistance, contact us today. Tackle every facet of today and tomorrow’s threat landscape with guidance from Kroll’s Cyber Risk experts. Enriched by frontline threat intel from 3000+ incidents cases every year, our end-to-end cyber risk solutions help organizations uncover exposures, validate the effectiveness of their defenses, implement new or updated controls, fine-tune detections and confidently respond to any threat. Get access to a wide portfolio of preparedness, resilience, detection and response services with a Kroll Cyber Risk retainer. Get in touch for more info.
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    MaxPatrol

    MaxPatrol

    Positive Technologies

    MaxPatrol is made for managing vulnerabilities and compliance on corporate information systems. Penetration testing, system checks, and compliance monitoring are at the core of MaxPatrol. Together, these mechanisms give an objective picture of the security stance across IT infrastructure as well as granular insight at the department, host, and application level, precisely the information needed to quickly detect vulnerabilities and prevent attacks. MaxPatrol makes it a cinch to keep an up-to-date inventory of IT assets. View information about network resources (network addresses, OS, available network applications and services), identify hardware and software in use, and monitor the state of updates. Best of all, it sees changes to your IT infrastructure. MaxPatrol doesn't blink as new accounts and hosts appear, or as hardware and software are updated. Information about the state of infrastructure security is quietly collected and processed.
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