Parrot Security OS (or ParrotSec) is a Debian-based GNU / Linux distribution. Developed for Penetration Tests (Computer Security), Vulnerability and Mitigation Assessment, Computer Forensics and Anonymous Surfing. Created by the Italian Frozenbox team.
ParrotSec or Parrot Security OS offers many tools for content analysis on the web and computer systems. It is a workshop for Digital Forensics, with legally recognized tools that work with cryptography, offering many possibilities. In addition, it allows you to surf and work anonymously.
Parrot 3.7 is based for the first time on the Debian GNU / Linux 10 "Buster" trial distribution, and uses Debian Testing repositories. with a customized for more security linux 4.xx Kernel. The distribution is a rolling release.
H new edition it is called CyberSloop and comes with updated Linux Kernel in the release 4.11.
The interface is MATE, a fork of Gnome 2, and the default display manager is a LightDM.
The program it is certified to run on systems that have at least 265Mb of RAM and is suitable for both 32bit (i386) and 64bit (amd64). It also has a special version that works on old ones machine32bit (486) eyes. In addition, the program is available for armel and armhf architectures. It also has a version (32bit and 64bit) developed for servers to perform Cloud pentesting.
The development team has not exactly identified the frequency of official releases, but according to the changelog of the releases that have already been released, the distribution frequency is monthly. Please note that this release was released after 7 weeks from 3.6 release.
