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.Back to 2005 CTO 25 Award winners. SecurityCareers