Mati Aharoni and Emanuele Gentili are known as the Developers of first Backtrack Linux. Mati is an Israeli Network Security Consultant and Emanuele Gentili is now CEO at Tiger Security Srl and a Speaker at Backtrack. Backtrack’s First ever release was on May 2006. The live CD was originated from Two different linux distro called WHAX (A Slax based created by Mati) and Auditor Security Collection (A Knoppix live Distro around 300 Sec-tools By Emanuele).

