InfoWorld CTO 25: Carl Banzhof
Vice president of technology and co-founder, Citadel Security
While other security vendors were devoting resources to vulnerability assessment and management, Carl Banzhof risked three years developing the first comprehensive, automated vulnerability remediation solution, with a library of hundreds of remediation signatures. “We knew that with such overwhelming numbers of attacks, people were going to need a way to automate this process,” Banzhof says. The result was Citadel Security’s Hercules, which integrates with leading vulnerability scanners to remediate vulnerabilities throughout the network -- not simply software defects but misconfigurations, back doors, unnecessary services, insecure user accounts, and even spyware. A 17-year security veteran, Banzhof has joined industry leaders from players such as Network Associates, Sans Institute, Symantec, and others as an appointee to the Open Vulnerability Assessment Language Board.
