Randy Marchany: Cybersecurity and other stuff

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

Friday, February 17, 2023

4 Tips for Prioritizing Metrics

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There are three phases to setting up a security metrics program. First, you must collect the data, analyze it and finally report your findin...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Motorcycle Riding and Being A CISO

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 I was checking out some YouTube videos and ran across this one with Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Oprah Winfrey. Towards the end of t...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Is Protecting Admin Privs on Endpoints Still Relevant?

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  The post-pandemic WFH (Work From Home)  model should force us to reevaluate the effectiveness of our security architectures. The most comm...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Time to Train -

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 "Excuse me, sir. How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" "Practice, Practice, Practice." I've always said that a poorly tra...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Resilience Is the Key to a Successful Defensive Strategy

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The main mission of any CISO is not to prevent breaches of their infrastructure, rather, it's to safeguard you organizations' sensit...
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Monday, August 31, 2020

RDP Security Tip and other Infographics

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 Thanks to Thomas Roccia for this great resource he created. It's at  https://medium.com/@tom_rock/security-infographics-9c4d3bd891ef . ...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

Academic Freedom and IT Security - They Do Work Well Together

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 I was a member of a panel on Cyber Hygiene that was sponsored by the SANS Institute today. My good buddies, Tony Sager and Russell Eubanks ...
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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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