Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional

Afterword: Where to Go from Here?

After you have worked your way through this book, you have mastered the basics of modern assembly programming. The next step depends on your needs. This afterword contains some ideas.

Security analysts can use the acquired knowledge to study malware, viruses, and other ways to break into computers or networks. Malware, in binary format, tries to get into computers and networks. You can take this binary code, reverse engineer it, and try to figure out what the code is doing. You would, of course, do that in an isolated lab system. Study how to reverse engineer and acquire the necessary tooling. You should consider learning ARM assembly for analyzing code on smartphones.

As a higher-level language programmer ...