Michael Messner
Penetration Tester
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Messner is a senior penetration tester and hardware-focused offensive security researcher with 15 years' experience hacking embedded systems, industrial devices and routers. As a Senior Key Expert at Siemens and now penetration tester for Siemens Energy, he leads firmware analysis, hardware reverse engineering and product red teaming for critical infrastructure. He founded the open-source EMBA firmware security analyzer used in professional testing and contributed key low-level emulator fixes, reflecting hands-on reverse engineering and tooling expertise. A frequent speaker at Black Hat, DEF CON and industry conferences, he combines deep exploit development and Metasploit experience with formal credentials like CISSP and OSCE. Notably, his profile blends enterprise-scale red teaming with practical open-source tooling that automates firmware security discovery.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DI(FH), ITS - Informationstechnik & Systemmanagement, DI(FH), ITS - Informationstechnik & Systemmanagement at Fachhochschule Salzburg - University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
sh10
embedded10
code-analysis10
script10
shell10
sys10
binarydiff10
scripting10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
e-m-b-a/emba
Jan 2011 - Jan 2023
EMBA - The firmware security analyzer
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 861 reviews, 1710 commits in 12 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the EMBA firmware security analyzer, focusing on low-level firmware analysis tasks. They were involved in adding bug fixes and making code improvements, particularly within the usermode emulator module. Their work involved modifying scripts and potentially contributing to reverse engineering, binary analysis and firmware analysis based on the file modifications.
firmwaresecuritylinuxembedded-linuxsecurity-tools
EMBA-support-repos/EPSS-data
Mar 2024 - Jun 2026
EPSS-data for EMBA
Contributions:2 reviews, 83 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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