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He is acknowledged as one of the North American masters of the hammer dulcimer. He was the author of the original theme song of National Public Radio'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.
Marchany is a native of [[Virginia ]] and went to [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] in [[Blacksburg]], Virginia.
In another life, he is the University Information Security Officer for Virginia Tech. He is also the director of the [[IT Security Lab]], a component of the university's [[IT Security Office]].
He has been a frequent speaker at national and international conferences such as SANS, IIA, ISACA, ACUA, Network Security, IEEE Symposium on Systems Management, NIST, NY State OIT Security conference, FBI-Infraguard chapters, US Forest & Wildlife Service, Computer Security Conference, DECUS-Canada, Air Force Material Command, EDUCAUSE and ACUA. He's been the subject of articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education on security issues at university campuses.
He was a recipient of the SANS Institute's Security Technology Leadership Award for 2000. He was a recipient of the VA Virginia Governor's Technology Silver Award in 2003. He was part of the team that won the EDUCAUSE Excellence in Information Technology Solutions Award in 2005.
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