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Mike Spitzer

Senior Security Engineer

EXPERIENCE
Mike Spitzer started his career in the telecommunications industry and has more than 25 years’ experience in both infrastructure development and security. At TrustedSec, Mike has focused primarily on defense and assisting clients in approving their defensive postures. He also holds development and infrastructure roles, primarily with the Impede product.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Security, The University of Arizona
  • GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)

PASSION FOR SECURITY
Mike uses his experience to develop tools securely from the ground up and to provide best-practices infrastructure guidance to teams, from development toolsets to physical security.

Featured Blogs And Resources

Discover the blogs, analysis, webinars, and podcasts by this team member.

Webinars April 20 2022

Securing Your Software Supply Chain

Join Senior Security Engineer Mike Spitzer and DevSecOps Security Consultant Mitch Parish to review the challenges of integrating security controls in the…

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Blog July 09 2020

8 Keys to Writing Safer Code

All too often, security in code is an afterthought. There's a reason that bug bounties are so prevalent; as codebases get larger, testing gets harder. Add in…

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Blog December 03 2019

Automation Testing With Ansible, Molecule, and Vagrant

There is an old rule that if you find yourself doing anything more than twice, you should automate it. For developers, this may be software builds or the…

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Events Mesa, AZ | February 14 2025

CactusCon 2025

TrustedSec is proud to sponsor and have a booth at CactusCon this year! Three of our consultants will be giving talks as well.

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Webinars February 11 2025

2024 Conference Roundup

Join our panelists David Kennedy, Justin Elze, Jason Lang, and Oddvar Moe for their firsthand accounts and perspectives on what people were talking about at…

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Blog February 06 2025

The Hidden Trap in the PCI DSS SAQ A Changes

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) just announced a change to Self Assessment Questionnaire A (SAQ A). The change eliminates two…

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Podcasts February 04 2025

Security Noise - Episode 7.10

Authentication in 2025

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Blog January 23 2025

Operating Inside the Interpreted: Offensive Python

IntroductionEvery once in a while, I get the urge to go back and revisit older techniques that used to be popular but have fallen out of favor with the…

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News January 21 2025

TrustedSec Tech Brief - January 2025

Carlos Perez walks us through several major vulnerabilities and patches from early January 2025, including a critical Fortinet FortiGate zero-day vulnerability.

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Podcasts January 17 2025

Security Noise - Episode 7.9

On this episode of the Security Noise Podcast, we discuss user enumeration on Azure and "presence data" in Microsoft Teams with nyxgeek.

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