Randy Marchany: Cybersecurity and other stuff

My interests include Cybersecurity issues, music from a performer viewpoint, and volleyball

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Three Old Books That Explain Everything Wrong with the Internet

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  Nobody who sat down with George Orwell’s “ 1984 ”, William Golding’s “ Lord of the Flies ”, or Joseph Heller’s  “Catch-22”  in the decades...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Cybersecurity's Original Sin: Why the Industry Has Failed to Fix Its Own Known Problems — and Who Benefits from the Failure

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  Executive Summary In 2001, the SANS Institute published a landmark list of the ten most common cybersecurity mistakes made by individual...
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Randy Marchany is the Virginia Tech CISO & Director of the Virginia Tech IT Security Lab. Randy is a founding members of the US Cyber Challenge (USCC) and designs the curriculum for these summer camps. He was a member of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) team that created the original CIS security benchmarks and scoring tools. He is a member of the CIS working group that created version 8 of the CIS Security Controls. He has written or co-authored over 50 papers and articles on cybersecurity. Randy is a former member of the REN-ISAC board and helped create the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking in Virginia. Randy received a CISO Connect Top 100 CISO award 2025, ONCon Top 10 CISO awards (2024, 2025), 2024 Capital Orbie Top 10 CISO award, 2021 SANS Difference Maker award, the 2016 Shirley C. Payne IT Security Advancement award, the 2000 SANS Institute's Security Technology Leadership Award, the 2003 VA Governor's Technology Silver Award, the EDUCAUSE Excellence in Information Technology Solutions Award in 2005 and the team 2017 Virginia Governor’s Technology Award. He is a co-holder of 3 cybersecurity patents.
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