John Kindervag, Creator of Zero Trust

John Kindervag joined ON2IT in March of 2021 as Senior Vice President Cybersecurity Strategy and ON2IT Global Fellow. He spent the previous four years at Palo Alto Networks as Field CTO. Before Palo Alto Networks, John spent eight and one-half years at Forrester Research as a Vice President and Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team. John is considered one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts. He is best known for creating the revolutionary Zero Trust Model of Cybersecurity.

In 2021, John was names to the President’s NSTAC Zero Trust Sub-Committee and was a primary author of the NSATC Zero Trust report that is being delivered to the President of the United States. Additionally, John was names CISO Magazine’s 2021 Cybersecurity Person of the Year.

John has a practitioner background, having served as a security consultant, penetration tester, and security architect. He has been interviewed and published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. He has also appeared on television networks such as CNBC, Fox News, PBS, and Bloomberg discussing information security topics. John has spoken at many security conferences and events, including RSA, SXSW, ToorCon, ShmoCon, InfoSec Europe, and InfoSec World.

John has a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Iowa and lives in Dallas, TX.