Randy Marchany Email Address

Information Technology Security Consulting

A laboratory that is part of Virginia Tech's Materials Science and Engineering Department under the direction of E. Johan Foster

Randy Marchany is the Chief Information Security Officer of VA Tech and the director of the VA Tech IT Security Lab. He is a co-author of the original FBI/SANS Institute's "Top 10/20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities" and the "Computer Security Incident Handling: Step By Step" document. He is the co-author of the SANS Institute's "Responding to Distributed Denial of Service Attacks" document that was prepared at the request of the White House in response to the DDOS attacks of 2000. He has written or co-authored over 35 cybersecurity papers. He has been a member of the SANS Institute's faculty since 1992 and developed its original IT Audit course. He is a co-author of the EDUCAUSE "Computer and Network Security in Higher Education" booklet. He is a member of the EDUCAUSE security task force. He was a coauthor of the original Center for Internet Security's series of Security Benchmark documents for Solaris, AIX and Windows2000. He is one of the founders of the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (www.vascan.org), a consortium of security practitioners and researchers from VA Tech, U of Virginia, James Madison Univ., George Mason Univ. He was a recipient of the SANS Institute's Security Technology Leadership Award for 2000, the VA Governor's Technology Silver Award in 2003. He was part of the team that won the EDUCAUSE Excellence in Information Technology Solutions in 2005. He is a co-holder of 3 cybersecurity patents. He was listed in the the International Who's Who of Information Technology. He is acknowledged as one of the North American masters of the hammer dulcimer. He is the author of the original theme song of Public Radio International's nationally syndicated radio program, "World Cafe". His band, "No Strings Attached" was nominated for or won "Indie" awards (independent record label's version of the Grammy) for Best Album (String Music) category in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990. Specialties: computer security, computer security awareness, Intrusion Detection, building Security Operations Centers, IT Audit