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About the Author
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.
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