John Kindervag
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 named CISO Magazine’s CyberSecurity Person of the Year. John serves on the President’s NSTAC Zero-Trust & Trusted Identity Management (ZT-IdM) Subcommittee. The committee is creating a report for delivery to the President in March of 2022. Additionally, John co-founded the CyberTheory Institue, the world’s first independent Cybersecurity Think Tank. 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.
