Randy Marchany: Cybersecurity and other stuff

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

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Deja Vu All Over Again - Redux - 1999-2014

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Yep, it's time to use this title again. This time we're talking about DDOS amplification attacks. One of the lists I monitor posted ...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Lemons for Security - Information Asymmetry

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My wife handed me an article from the Annals of Internal Medicine (Vol 157, No. 2, p.139-140) entitled "Lemons for Obesity" by Mic...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Identity Verification in the MOOC World. Not!

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According to some, Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) are the latest saviors in the financially strapped EDU world. The idea of havin...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Why Commoners WIll Always Be On The Defensive

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In the past year, one of my most requested talks is called "The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same". I show examples ...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Application Security Questionnaires - The Time is Now!

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Back in 2009, I posted a note talking about vendor software security vulnerabilities and how they undermine our security. Way back in the ea...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Are Silicon Valley "campuses" the 21st century version of coal mining company towns?

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I was reading a recent article about the new Facebook "campus" that is being built in Menlo Park at the old Sun Microsystems facil...
Monday, April 9, 2012

A Cyber Security Industrial Complex?

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Dwight Eisenhower is one of my heroes. Yep, I said it right here and now. His speech on the military-industrial complex is only now being ap...
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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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