Traffic Monitor

The mitmproxy tool puts interactive traffic analysis in your hands.

Holger Reibold

Companies that provide web services for the outside world in their own infrastructure are exposed to a variety of threats. The developers of the open source mitmproxy tool describe it as the Swiss army knife for debugging, testing, data protection analysis, and penetration testing HTTP(S) connections. I show you how mitmproxy can be a useful addition to your security toolbox. Man in the Middle When most people hear the term “proxy,” they probably think of legacy proxy servers that act as gateways connecting local networks to the global network or as go-betweens protecting local clients against external access (e.g., NGINX, Squid, and WinGate come to mind). Given the name, mitmproxy [1] could be assumed to be in the same category. However, the tool takes a different approach by specializing in…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2025

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