Matthew Molyett
Technical Lead at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Molyett is a Technical Lead and seasoned malware researcher with over a decade of experience dissecting advanced threats, reverse engineering malicious code, and building tooling for forensic and defensive operations. He has led technical teams at Cisco Talos after a career in government cryptanalysis and high-assurance security engineering, bringing deep expertise in kernel debugging, cryptographic systems, and automated analysis pipelines. Matthew combines hands-on reverse engineering with strategic impact—having even advocated for elevating information security to Congressional attention—and requires his work to produce measurable results. He mentors engineers and has a track record of designing provable countermeasures, transparent encrypted filesystems, and development infrastructure that accelerates analysis across platforms. Based in Maryland, he holds an MS in Cybersecurity and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, and is driven by hard problems that yield real-world security improvements.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Cybersecurity, Master of Science (MS), Cybersecurity at University of Maryland University CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University
English, python, c, .net, c++
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
cisco10
osquery9
extraction9
reverse-engineering8
malware8
virtual-machine8
qemu8
python7
windbg6
dbgeng6
debugging6
algorithm6
antivirus5
clamav4
windows4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Cisco-Talos/osquery_queries
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Cisco Orbital - Osquery queries by Talos
Contributions:138 commits, 120 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
osquery
SecsAndCyber/wincrypt.py
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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