Michael 'artsploit' Stepankin is a researcher at GitHub Security Lab. He joined the team to put his offensive security mindset to the test, uncovering complex vulnerabilities in open source web applications. He specializes in the Java Enterprise stack, covering a wide range of security topics from insecure deserialization and XXEs, to logical bugs in OAuth systems. He's published a number of works throughout his employment as a researcher, including new ways to exploit JNDI injections, attacks on Apache Solr, and finding hidden Remote Code Executions in the Spring framework.