Mike is a Senior Penetration Tester at Schellman with seven years of experience in offensive security, having worked across practice areas such as network testing (internal and external), social engineering and phishing campaigns, red team operations, web application security, source code analysis, and cloud testing. He has collaborated with organizations of all sizes, including Fortune 100 companies, leveraging deep expertise and manual methods alongside offensive security tools to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen security postures across multiple security domains.
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Mike Finkel
September 3rd, 2025
As a penetration tester, few things are more frustrating than firing up Burp Suite, configuring your proxy, and then watching Java applications completely ignore your interception attempts. While web browsers play nice with proxy certificates, Java applications seem determined to make your life difficult.