Randy Marchany: Cybersecurity and other stuff

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

Monday, May 24, 2010

Building Skynet - The Beginning (part 2)

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"Automated Response Needed for Cyber Attack, Napolitano Will Say", http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-03/automated-response...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Building Skynet - The Beginning (part 1)

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Robert Brewster : Oh Katie, I am sorry. I opened Pandora's Box. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, 2003) I was talking with my good ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Securing Sensitive Data Issues

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For all of us, the problem is well defined. We need to protect sensitive data that is stored on our IT devices. However, we need to be care...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

How Vendor Software Undercuts Password Controls

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The biggest problem with password controls such as aging, resets and adhering to strength guidelines is that vendor applications are sometim...
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Mobile Device Security

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A couple of years ago, we started investigating the IT security of mobile devices and the 1st generation of smart phone. Grant Jacoby was th...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

The Bagpiper & the Homeless Man - A true story

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As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no fa...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Local Admin Rights for User: A Losing Battle?

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I presume the primary reason for preventing local users from having admin rights on their desktops is to keep them from installing "evi...
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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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