This talk would be about explaining what the shadowcircle project is: ◦why was it created. ◦what is the philosophy behind this project. ◦what are you concretely able to do with the integrated tools. ◦why is it better than other similar solution (backtrack) ◦Final words : we need contributors to side projects in order to replace some non FOS software. a Demo would also be performed : a vulnerabilities check on remote host ( implies 2 pc, provided by the speaker ) + exploit with specific payload. shadowcircle is a free GNU/Linux Live CD distribution which was specially crafted for penetration testers. Forked from backtrack, this distribution aims to: ◦Remove any peace of non free software that was initially the backtrack packages base, and replace them by FOS equivalents. ◦Bring more documentation about the integrated tools. ◦Integrate cutting-edge security tools that are not yet available in similar distributions.