Not exactly what you're asking, but reading and manipulating asm is critical in several parts of infosec: reversing, vuln analysis, sploiting and manipulating,

Not exactly what you're asking, but reading and manipulating asm is critical in several parts of infosec: reversing, vuln analysis, sploiting and manipulating, etc. The same goes for somewhat related fields suchs as game hacks, cracking and so on. To some extent this also includes writing raw asm.