John Kindervag

John Kindervag is a renowned cybersecurity expert and the creator of the Zero Trust Model of cybersecurity.12 He recently joined Illumio as Chief Evangelist, where he is responsible for driving the adoption of Zero Trust Segmentation through advocacy and thought leadership.13

Kindervag has over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry.2 His career highlights include:

1. Senior Vice President at MSSP ON2IT, leading cybersecurity strategy1
2. Field CTO at Palo Alto Networks2
3. Vice President and Principal Analyst on the security and risk team at Forrester Research for over eight years, where he developed the Zero Trust concept2

He has also served as an advisor to organizations like the Cloud Security Alliance and NightDragon, a venture capital firm.2 Kindervag contributed to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Report to the President.2

In 2021, Kindervag was named to the U.S. President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) Zero Trust Sub-Committee and was a primary author of the NSTAC Zero Trust report.3 He was also named CISO Magazine's Cybersecurity Person of the Year in the same year.3

At Illumio, Kindervag aims to accelerate the adoption of Zero Trust Segmentation, which he believes is an essential component of any security strategy.1