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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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Webinars December 04 2024

BEC Basics: Your First Step to Thwarting Email Scams

Join Senior Security Consultant Steven Erwin and Security Consultant Olivia Cate as they cover the basics of BEC analysis, providing participants with…

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Webinars October 30 2024

Ask Me Anything: Advanced Cloud Pen Testing Scenarios

Join TrustedSec Force Cloud Security Practice Lead Paul Burkeland, along with Principal Security Consultant Mike Felch and Security Consultants Edwin David and…

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Blog October 29 2024

Android Hacking for Beginners

1.1    Prerequisites Set Up an Android Lab: https://www.trustedsec.com/blog/set-up-an-android-hacking-lab/ Burp Suite: https://portswigger.net/burp DVBA…

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News October 25 2024

Newsweek - Hackers May Have Accessed Trove of Intel on Trump and Vance Phones

Hackers may have accessed a trove data and intel on phones belonging to former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance. Director of Security…

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News October 24 2024

Team Spotlight - Megan Nilsen

Let’s meet TAC Practice Lead Megan Nilsen! Megan goes by many names (as you will find out below) including @mega_spl0it on X. Her full title is technically…

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Blog October 22 2024

Offensively Groovy

On a recent red team engagement, I was able to compromise the Jenkins admin user via retrieving the necessary components and decrypting credentials.xml. From…

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Podcasts October 18 2024

Security Noise - Episode 7.4

Who's On My Network?

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