John Kindervag
Chief Evangelist
John Kindervag is considered one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts. With over 25 years of experience as a practitioner and industry analyst, he is best known for creating the revolutionary Zero Trust Model of Cybersecurity. As Chief Evangelist at Illumio, John Kindervag is responsible for accelerating awareness and adoption of Zero Trust Segmentation. Most recently, John led cybersecurity strategy as a Senior Vice President at On2IT. He previously served as Field CTO at Palo Alto Networks and, before that, spent over eight years as a Vice President and Principal Analyst on the security and risk team at Forrester Research. In 2021, John was named to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) Zero Trust Sub-Committee and was a primary author of the NSATC Zero Trust report that was delivered to the President. That same year, he was also named CISO Magazine’s Cybersecurity Person of the Year. John serves as an advisor to several organizations, including the Cloud Security Alliance and Venture Capital firm NightDragon.
Authored content
Weekly Briefing
From Boardrooms to Battlefields: Zero Trust Speaks Cybersecurity’s Common Language
Learn why Zero Trust fosters a common language in cybersecurity, aligning strategy across all levels of an organization — from generals and CEOs to technical teams.
Weekly Briefing
14 Years of Zero Trust: A Retrospective on Security’s Biggest Mindset Shift
Learn about the origins of the Zero Trust security model and how it has progressed over the last 14 years.
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