35 Years in Cybersecurity: Randy Marchany’s Biggest Lessons

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Randy Marchany shares his biggest lessons from 35 years in cybersecurity and over 50 years in IT.

Send us Fan Mail and we can reply directly! In this episode of the Cybersecurity Mentors Podcast, we sit down with Randy Marchany, longtime CISO at Virginia Tech University, to break down the biggest lessons he’s learned from 35 years in cybersecurity and over 50 years in IT. From building one of the earliest hands-on cybersecurity training labs to leading incident response and mentoring the next generation of professionals, Randy shares what actually matters if you want to succeed in this f...

People in this episode

Guest: Randy Marchany

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• IT training
• incident response
• mentorship
• career lessons

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• CISO
• Virginia Tech
• training labs
• incident response
• mentoring
• career success

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Virginia Tech University

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