The need for a penetration testing framework

Penetration testing is not just about running a set of a few automated tools against your target. It's a complete process that involves multiple stages and each stage is equally important for the success of the project. Now, for performing all the tasks throughout every stage of penetration testing, we would need to use various tools and might need to perform some tasks manually. Then, at the end, we would need to combine the results from all the different tools together to produce a single meaningful report. This is certainly a daunting task. It would be really easy and timesaving if one single tool could help us perform all the required tasks for penetration testing. This exact need is satisfied by a framework such as Metasploit.

Now let's move on to learning more about the Metasploit Framework.