So here we are, meet the Métis Point framework, this is pretty much your Swiss Army knife to pen testing.
Until now, you might recall the basic phases of a penetration tester and completed the lab setup.
So let's talk about the big picture Métis Boite framework.
I consider the MSF to be one of the most useful penetration testing tools freely available, the Menace
Boyd framework provides an impressive workspace that is well beyond any others that I can think of,
because it's beyond any one particular tool that has a bunch of exploits.
So it's more than that, though, you can customize it for your own purpose.
From a wide variety of commercial exploits, as well as an extensive exploit development environment
all the way to network information gathering tools and web vulnerability plug ins, you can pretty much
find almost everything that you need for a penetration test.
But to be clear about this course is I have prepared this in a manner to encompass only the front end
or the user aspects of the framework, pretty much with the aim to give an in-depth look into the many
features of Métis POIT.
So this isn't an exploit development course for MSF, I'll plan that for later and you'll be raring
to go.
But it is an amazing tool for sure.
So before we do a little walk around, let's have a little brief talk about its history and believe
me, I'll be brief.
Won't be too long.
So the creator of Métis Point is Heidi Moore, who was spending most of his time validating and sanitizing
public exploit codes to use in 2003, then the idea of a framework formed in his mind.
And the first edition came out.
The first edition was a complete Pearl Project, released in 2003 with a total of 11 XPoint.
Then, with the help of some other friends, Métis Boy 2.0 was released in 2004 with 19 boys and over
27 payloads.
Then shortly after this release, the team continued to widen and Métis boy gained popularity in the
information security community.
Then following a complete rewrite in the Ruby programming language.
The Métis boy team released Métis Point 3.0 in 2007.
150000 lines of code added to the project in an 18 month period after migrating from Ruby.
With the 3.0 release, Métis, Boit saw widespread adoption in the security community and also a big
increase in user contributions in the fall of 2009, Métis Point was acquired by Rapide seven.
Which allowed HD to build a team to focus only on the development of the Métis Boit framework after
the acquisition updates have occurred more well rapidly.
Then Rapid Seven released two commercial product based on the Métis boy framework, Métis, Boyd Xpress
and Métis Boit Pro.
Motorsport Express was a lighter version of the Métis pro.
But for this version, Rapide seven announced the end of life on June 4th, 2018.
So the team will focus on Métis boy pro by adding new features such as collaboration, group penetration
testing and oh so much more.
So I told you I'd be brief.
This was your history class of the Métis Point project, so like it or not, basically the life cycle
of a product pretty much defines what it is.