Paul Mueller is a Principal Operator at Black Lantern Security (BLS). He specializes in web application testing and application security. He loves finding complex hard-to-find web bugs, especially when they involve cryptography. He is also one of the developers for the BLS tools Writehat and BBOT (Bighuge BLS OSINT Tool). Prior to working with BLS, he spent over a decade as a DoD contractor providing both penetration testing and security analysis/incident handling. He got his start in the field as a systems administrator and later as a Signals Intelligence Analyst with the US Marine Corps.