One of the most difficult aspects of penetration testing is remembering to test all of the relevant parts of the network or system target or trying to remember whether the target was actually tested after the testing has been completed. In some cases, a single client may have multiple penetration testers performing scanning activities from multiple locations and management would like to have a single view. Faraday can provide a single view, assuming all of the penetration testers are able to ping each other on the same network or on the internet for external assessment.

Faraday is a multiuser penetration test IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It is designed for testers to distribute, index, and analyze all of the data that is generated during the process of a penetration testing or technical security audit to provide different views such as Management, Executive Summary, and Overall Issues lists.

This IDE platform is developed in Python by InfoByte and version 2.7.2 is installed by default in the latest version of Kali Linux. You can navigate from the menu Applications, click on 12-Reporting tools, and then click on Faraday IDE. That should open up the new workspace to be created by the testers, as shown in the following screenshot:

Launching Faraday should be able to open up the Faraday shell console to us, as shown in the following screenshot:

One of the features of the application is that following any scanning that you or any other penetration testers in your team do, you'll be able to visualize the information by clicking on Faraday Web and you'll be able to see the following: