Blog - Joshua McKiddy

In my previous blog, I demonstrated the use of skills via OpenAI’s Codex to perform static analysis on multiple pieces of malware.

I’ve been exploring skills within the context of AI lately.

It’s been a little while since my last post, and that’s because I’ve been heads-down working toward a big goal: earlier this year I sat for the GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification, and I’m excited to share that I achieved it, two days be…

Almost 20 years ago, I participated in a PvP competition tournament for Final Fantasy XI, a MMORPG, within the in-game PvP event called Ballista.

I recently obtained access to the Kiro IDE Public Preview.

I recently took on a weekend project at a rental property I own to set up a few critical IoT devices.

Continuing my journey in reverse engineering and malware analysis—I covered this in My Beginnings with Assembly and Getting Familiar with Ghidra—I've been exploring how large language models (LLMs) can accelerate and enhance tasks like sample analysis and…

Moving up in a technical career involves a shift in responsibilities—from doing deep hands-on work to becoming a force multiplier by coaching other engineers and designing strategies and systems aligned with business goals.

I’ve made some significant changes to the Log Analysis Buddy, a script I created a couple years ago to use LLMs for assisting with security log analysis.

Following up from my previous blog of “My Beginnings with Assembly”, I’ve been continuing to deep dive into malware analysis and reverse engineering.

With the new hype around Deepseek, I took an opportunity to check out how to use it myself.

I’ve been diving deep lately into reverse engineering and malware analysis, a field that I’ve only had a limited exposure to in my day-to-day activities.

“You really need this person to mentor you.”

“How do you scale security policies and controls for developers?”

"If I have to look it up twice, I'm writing it down."

This will be a space where I post about things I learn (or have learned), projects I’m working on, research I’ve performed, or just overall tech knowledge.